Tool Marks in your CZ75?

[Browns Fan]

I am in no way disparaging CZ's. I have had mine a long time and has never failed me, but, I cannot help but notice all the tool marks inside the slide and frame. I bought it brand new in Germany in '89. It aint pretty as my Detonics 9-11-01, but she defintitely will get the job done.

Any of you guys with newer CZ's notice tool marks in yours, or has CZ gotten more refined over the years?

 

[rbernie]

Mine span 1996-2006 and they all have milling machine tool marks inside the slide and such. They are not nearly as nicely finished as my Sigs, but they are at least dimensionally very consistent.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

No rough machining or tooling marks in my PCR (purchased Nov. 2007). Only contact areas (e.g., the hammer cocking rail in the slide) are polished, though.

 

[SureThing]

The slide on all 3 of my CZ's have tooling marks, pretty bad on the bottom of the slide rails.

 

[RickW]

Tool marks here too on a 75B. Today was the first time out with it, I am quite impressed.

 

[burningsquirrels]

tool marks or not... my friend is a better shot than i am... on the nra 50 ft rapid fire target (B3?) he laid a 1" group with my handloads... with my 15k round CZ 40b. yeah it's full of tool marks, but these things are accurate and work damn well.

who cares if a race car is ugly inside if it wins race after race? who cares about tool marks if CZ pistols run good as hell?

 

[Magnus1959]

I believe I read about all of this on another thread. Seems to be common.

 

[BlindJustice]

I got my 75B about 3+ months ago.... it was the first CZ my gundealer / gunsmith had transferred sold - he's a guy who runs his business out of his home and knows 1911s. He also knows of the growing popularity of the CZ line of handguns. I've had him do work on my 1911 and revolvers but he's been asking aobut how the 75B has been working out. 100% reliability, and
very accurate, the day before i got it and he said it was in. I told him to
field strip it and look for tooling marks/get the shipping grease off of it. He said it looked good on the inside. I looked at the paperwork in the box and it
seems it left the factory Jan. '08 It's a blued model.

YCZMB,

Randall

 

[SDDL-UP]

I'd rather have a few tooling marks than the stamped steel or MIM parts in most guns these days!

 

[DirksterG30]

My 2003 P-01 has some minor tool marks on the underside of the slide, but it's not any worse than the P226 Navy I used to own.

 

[Deer Hunter]

None here. Just use marks.

 

[Dobe]

Tool marks are rather common with CZ's. It's simply a way of saving production cost. With the increase in price of CZ handguns, CZ is placing itself in direct competition with others of higher craftsmanship standards. One of the most attractive attributes of CZ's is that they are or were a great handgun for the price.

 

[SureThing]

The worst area, under the slide on the rails, I have just smoothed out with a stone. Looks better, and I feel better about it.

 

[Browns Fan]

Quote:
"The worst area, under the slide on the rails, I have just smoothed out with a stone. Looks better, and I feel better about it."

Did that affect the performance of the gun? What kind of stone did you use?

 

[SureThing]

No, it did not affect performace at all. Teh stone I used was given to me from a guy who works at a machine shop. The first was 220 grit, then 320 grit. It simply smooth it out a bit, but did not go as far as making it pretty and shiny.

 

[rbernie]

Can I presume that the CZ that you stoned didn't have a poly-coated or nickeled finish?

 

[Pilot]

With the increase in price of CZ handguns, CZ is placing itself in direct competition with others of higher craftsmanship standards. One of the most attractive attributes of CZ's is that they are or were a great handgun for the price.

I bought both my CZ's in early 2000. A 75B and a PCR. I got them both for $320, but the 75B came with a hicap mag and a 10 round mag while the PCR just came with two ten rounders. A similar 75B would cost around $450 now. If I use the period of 8.5 years, that is a 4% per year increase. Roughly mirrring inflation. Comparable Sigs, HK's and Berettas have also increased and are still well above the cost of a CZ.

 

[SureThing]

Look at this thread.

http://www.czforumsite.info/index.php?topic=18698.0

Notice the tooling marks on the bottom of the slide. It is a poly coated gun, but the poly is not there, or has warn off. This is what I smoothed out a bit. All of my CZ's looked like this there.

 

[Browns Fan]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I paid the princely sum of $237 NIB for my CZ75, so I could not pass it up.

 

[SureThing]

LOL that was 19 years ago..... and you are just now asking about the tooling marks.