But I was also training to shoot.
And the only thing I was allowed to shoot was .22. For like a year. It even took a while before that was allowed.
It's only recently that I was shooting centerfire. And I only shot .45 again the past month or so
So, the gun got made, but not shot, because of the training. It fired a single magazine in testing, but nothing else. It's still a parts pile as I delayed doing more with it until after a metal finishing class was held to brighten it up some.
The metal finishing class never came around. So what good is T-Bolt 1, my first and only, so far, built from scratch 1911?
I need to bite the bullet, so to speak, do the best I can on the metal finishing, go ahead and loctite in the grip screw escutcheons. Put it through it's paces.
Plan... I need to wet sand out some nasty scratches on the slide from the build process. This gun will never be pretty. I have a sanding block made out of a hockey puck and inch wide abrasive tape in various grips.
Also, I can relieve some pointy bits on the grip safety where it meets the frame with an abrasive cylinder in the dremel.
Hop to, T-Bolt! Then you gotta test the function. 250 rounds without a hiccup.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
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