Who Needs Tools??

[C-pher]

This article shows you how you can do just about anything to your 1911 with parts of your 1911.

http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/tech/toolbox.htm

 

[Nickle]

I agree with most of that. You will need tools to do the following:

Replace the sights (mostly the front one)

Stake the grip screw "nuts"

Stake the plunger tube

Incidentally, these are also the three things I recommend a builder have done by a competent gunsmith.

 

[jacobtowne]

Yessir. Field strip without tools for cleaning and a safety you push down for firing, just the way God and John Browning intended. 8)
JT

 

[Skald]

I do beleive Brownings middle name of Moses is so fitting, for some higher power surely must have guided his thoughts when he made such guns as the M1911 and M-2. I mean, how many other weapons designed in the early 1900's are still in service today?

 

[jacobtowne]

Aren't some of the improvements he made to Winchester lever rifles still in use?
JT

 

[KMaurer]

Another instructor and I have a running joke that we both must be members of some spin-off Muslim sect, for which the prophet was JMB rather than Mohamed. Browning's name is almost certain to come up in a conversation, at which point we'll pause, bow our heads slightly or raise our palms up muttering "praise be upon him". You don't think that the 1911, Hi-Power, BAR and Ma Deuce were all invented my just some shmoe from Utah, did you? It was all obviously divine revelation.

Ken

 

[jacobtowne]

And pocket pistols as well - .25, .32, .380.
JT

 

[Nickle]

Responsible for the 1886, 1892, 1894 and 1895 Winchesters as well, IIRC. At least part of them.