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will a Govt/series 70 thumb safety work in a series 80 MKIV, and vice versa?
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Stupid question of the week: are 1911 thumb safeties all the same?
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Come on fellers... 
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I personally have not heard of the thumb safeties being different, but there is a chance they might be because the grip safeties are. Others will chime in time and let you know.
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assuming they are within spec and haven't been previously fitted to another gun, all thumb safeties made for a 1911 should fit into any 1911 based clone. it will likely need to be fitted, it isn't really a drop-in part
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Heck no. Come in all kinds of shapes.
As posted, any in spec safety will work on any in spec 1911, assuming there is meat enough in the proper areas to fit to the new gun. Any new one should, but moving one from one gun to another may not work.
70 vs 80 has nothing to do with thumb safeties.
As posted, any in spec safety will work on any in spec 1911, assuming there is meat enough in the proper areas to fit to the new gun. Any new one should, but moving one from one gun to another may not work.
70 vs 80 has nothing to do with thumb safeties.
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Didn't think so but wanted to be sure. Thanks
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The Safetys will in theory change out, but may require fitting, and if they were already fitted to another gun, there is the possbility that too much metal was removed, the safety can't correctly be fitted to another gun, if one of them was out of spec a little bit.
The other thing is not all safetys are equal, aftermarket safety for the 1911 vary quite a bit in quality, and some work better then others. When fitting a new safety to a 1911, and I have done several because I am left handed and often had to change out to an ambi-safety, I have found that sometimes to get it just right, may take an hour, depending on how well it goes, or might take 3 hours to get just right.
The thing I am picky about is I hate a mushy safety, and I want a safety to go from one postion to the other with a definate and just the right amount of snick, click, snap, whatever you want to call it. And that is sometimes a challenge, and may even require a plunger spring change or reshaping slightly to get it just right, but once right, it usually continues to work flawlessly from then on.
The other thing is not all safetys are equal, aftermarket safety for the 1911 vary quite a bit in quality, and some work better then others. When fitting a new safety to a 1911, and I have done several because I am left handed and often had to change out to an ambi-safety, I have found that sometimes to get it just right, may take an hour, depending on how well it goes, or might take 3 hours to get just right.
The thing I am picky about is I hate a mushy safety, and I want a safety to go from one postion to the other with a definate and just the right amount of snick, click, snap, whatever you want to call it. And that is sometimes a challenge, and may even require a plunger spring change or reshaping slightly to get it just right, but once right, it usually continues to work flawlessly from then on.
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