Re: all original
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to MOONDOG on Mon Jun 01 2020 12:26 pm
MOONDOG wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Having an "all original" firearm that seen action isn't realistic.
Pins go bad or fall out, springs get worn, barrels get shot out, and receivers and stocks sometimes crack.
Very true! So far, my Belgium Browning SA-22 is all original as far as parts, but it has been refinished with Cerakote, which is, of course, not permanant if I want to remove it.
But so far - knock on wood - all the internal parts are the same!
... Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
My father was trained to be a machinist in the Army back in the early 1960's.
He was stationed in Germany, and assigned to work in a repair shop. The armorers would perform triage on firearms coming into the shop, then send the parts to machinists with a description of services to be performed. He said the most common problem was roll pins would eventually wear down from
constant insertion and removal during cleaning, and the armorer's cure was tapping threads in the pin holes and replacing the pins with screws. He said some of the older armorers were really sharp, and would secretly build theirselves up competion grade 1911's. They would tighten up the slides with
a vise, then polish and stone all the contact surfacee and adjusted trggers. There were regualr inspections and suspicion that some guns were not being documented or destroyed as claimed, however the smiths would be in a constant game of hiding things.
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