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Nice job! Details, details!?!?
Nice job! Details, details!?!?
I'm not familiar with the custom-building of a 1911. Why is there so much hand fitting needed? Is there less of a tight spec on tolerances that the parts are built to than, say, an AR15? Or do they come with extra metal on them so that people can machine them down on purpose?
Mike well saidI think the reason is that most people who are building a 1911 from
the ground up want it to be uber-accurate, so most of the vendors
will make parts which aren't set to loose tolerances, so the
gunsmith can fit all that himself for the specific combo of parts he's
using.
The other problem is simply that of QC not being universal. For
instance, the guys making slides at caspian might have a different
idea of whats considered "acceptable variance" in their manufacturing
than whoever it was that made your frame, etc.
Not to mention a lot of people build off stuff they already
have- which means "the other guy" doesn't know what the
specs of that frame is, etc.
FWIW, you probably could find "slopbucket/mixmaster/gi spec
parts" and build a 1911 with minimal fitting, but it would kinda
defeat the purpose of doing it oneself.
-Mike
About 4 months the scaryest part was running the file on the back of the slide to give me the fifty lines per inch,never did that before