Do you know how often you have to take the sear and disconnector out of a 1911 when you are rebuilding one? And then put it back in? Multiply that by me helping 6 student. It's a little tiny pin on your gun that has to go through a small hole on the sear, a big hole on the disconnetor, and maybe some Series 80 parts if that is what you brought, and they don't stay in one place.
Dozens of time. DOZENS
Then I saw Sam... He just jammed an undersized pin punch into the other side, wiggled it around, everything lined up, and the pin pushed through easy peasy.
Wish I had learned that a couple years ago.
But you learn something new every day.
And it's the little things... In this case little OBVIOUS things.
Think Fast
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I put a lot of this in the comments here. But it really deserves its own
blog post. Six years ago, in 2019, it was estimated that every three
months, artif...
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Kind of like using an ice pick to line up screw holes in sheet metal. But everybody knows that hack, right?
Dummy pin. I use them all the time.
What?
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