The 1911 is it's own toolbox!

[1911Tuner]

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Gluck...er...Glockers! shhhh..Vern is about to go into overload...

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Lemesee, I can't use my thumbnail, I can't use any part of the magazine, I can't use any references, I can't strip an M1911 down and see -- who thought up this cockamamie game?!?!

The answer is --- the Thumb Safety Lock. It will cam the Safety Lock Plunger back, compressing the spring as you rotate it into position.

 

[1911Tuner]

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Nope Vern. It's the barrel bushing. Works like a champ.

Wait! ya can't strip one down to see? Ya mean you ain't GOT a 1911???

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Nope Vern. It's the barrel bushing. Works like a champ.

If I ever need to reasemble a .45 with a broken thumbnail and can't cam the plunger back with the thumb lock, I now know how.

Wait! ya can't strip one down to see? Ya mean you ain't GOT a 1911???

I got three of 'em sitting right here -- I though your rule was no peeking.

 

[1911Tuner]

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Right about now, there are 50-odd 1911 owners tryin' to figger out how to use the bushing to depress the pluger and get the thumb safety to snap in...

The M-16 firing pin works too. Just don't try to push the plunger in with the tip. Use the side, at the second step..pressure on the safety with the pin under it...Move the pin forward to push the plunger, and when the safety drops toward the frame a tiny bit...pull the pin up and out. Voila! Takes about 2 seconds.

 

[1911Tuner]

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Dang...No reports yet?

 

[Iron bottom]

Could the recoil spring plug or a fired case also be used?

 

[Old Fuff]

Do you think Browning would have gone with some form of external extractor if he had his way? Sig external extractors could probably be removed with the disconnector or strut of a 1911, maybe that design could have made its way in.

Up until about 1910 all of browning's prototypes had external extractors. And with the exception of the .22 Woodsman all of his other Colt pistols had external extractors. He switched in the 1911 design because he wanted to better protect it from the elements, and as pointed out make it easy to remove for replacement or cleaning.

He also knew enough to make it from SPRING STEEL! :banghead:

Edit: To correct typo.

 

[1911Tuner]

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Iron Bottom asked:

>>Could the recoil spring plug or a fired case also be used?<<
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To depress the plunger? Dunno. Never tried it. I wouldn't think so, but I'll go try it in a few minutes and report back. Got one apart that's gotta go back together, and it'd be a good time to find out.

I know that a fired case can serve as an expedient replacement for a lost recoil spring plug...as long as the gun doesn't have a full-length guide rod.

Spring steel extractor...Yep Fuff. Why use three parts when you can use one? A part that functions as its own spring is simpler and more "Murphy Resistant."

 

[kansas45]

Sound's good! I'm gonna try it right noe on my S/A Ultra Compact.
Good Luck to me!

 

[1911Tuner]

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Often replace thousands of words, they say...so here's the bushing to plunger technique. Get the safety into the installation position on top of the bushing ear...depress the plunger...push the safety in and up...pull the bushing, and...snap! In goes the safety.