Posted: 7/30/2014 8:37:45 PM EDT
| Bought a new 1911 today and after field stripping had trouble with reassembly. The little trigger safety lever was sticking up to far to get the slide back on. I tried everything short of a hammer until I decided to use a jeweler's file to take off a touch. Now the slide goes back on okay but should I polish the surface where I removed metal or just shoot the thing? Also the phosphate is gone from the area where the lever rides in the slide. Was that going to happen after the first mag anyway or did I screw up leaving the tang a little rough? I really don't know how they assemble these things at the factory. Thanks for any input. |
Are you intimately familiar with a 1911? And are you familiar with the Series 80 firing pin safety and it's associated parts and method of operation? I don't think you could've come up with a worse solution than removing metal (on a 1911 no less  ) for the sake of making something fit back together, which was fit together properly when you started.
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How much metal did you remove? It may be necessary to order a new lever to ensure the timing remains correct so that the series 80 plunger is being moved the correct amount for reliable disengagement of the safety. Those levers come in different sizes for different amounts of "lift". |
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I removed very little, there was a burr from stamping and I went only a little further than that. There is plenty of material left to engage the plunger. Then take it to the range and see if it fires without any issues, I don't know how many thousandths of an inch you can take off the series 80 levers without affecting reliable disengagement of the plunger but if you have failures to fire, you'll know why. |
| I had the same thing happen to a Tacops as well. I sent it back to Sig and they replaced the safer plunger lever. Now the lever is flush with the frame as it should of been from the beginning and reassembling the TacOps is a non issue. I find it disappointing that it left the factory that way, but they did take care of the issue no questions asked. |