Posted: 3/26/2014 6:22:01 AM EDT
| Any issues with current Springfield specific parts these days? Had a buddy catch hell with one a while back on some firing pin issues as well as a couple other parts when he had some failures to fire. There have been some smoking deals on quite a few 1911's on the local classifieds lately. No Springfields in my growing collection of 1911's. |
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Any issues with current Springfield specific parts these days? Had a buddy catch hell with one a while back on some firing pin issues as well as a couple other parts when he had some failures to fire. There have been some smoking deals on quite a few 1911's on the local classifieds lately. No Springfields in my growing collection of 1911's. Only part I would consider proprietary is the ILS system in the mainspring housing. Just FYI it does not use a standard weight mainspring. Don't ask me how I know 
I honestly cannot remember if my TRP uses a 9mm FP or not though. Pretty sure my pro is a .45 FP |
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Only part I would consider proprietary is the ILS system in the mainspring housing. Just FYI it does not use a standard weight mainspring. Don't ask me how I know
I honestly cannot remember if my TRP uses a 9mm FP or not though. Pretty sure my pro is a .45 FP Quoted:
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Any issues with current Springfield specific parts these days? Had a buddy catch hell with one a while back on some firing pin issues as well as a couple other parts when he had some failures to fire. There have been some smoking deals on quite a few 1911's on the local classifieds lately. No Springfields in my growing collection of 1911's. Only part I would consider proprietary is the ILS system in the mainspring housing. Just FYI it does not use a standard weight mainspring. Don't ask me how I know
I honestly cannot remember if my TRP uses a 9mm FP or not though. Pretty sure my pro is a .45 FP Was the ILS system designed to meet California specs and then applied to all guns shipped elsewhere? |
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Proprietary parts on a SA:
Firing pin, it's not a standard dimension, smaller than .45, larger than the others, though the smaller pins reportedly will work and a large pin can be turned down in a drill, the firing pin spring is different as well reportedly ILS mainspring housing and its internals, short mainspring, long mainspring cap, if you change one part of the mainspring assembly go ahead and change them all. Front sight tenon on staked sights, it's between large and small, large are easily filed down, SA spec are available from multiple sources. None of these really present any issue, if they fail and the gun is not modified SA will take care of it. |
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SA covered warrenty work on my SA high cap wich I had modifed for uspsa ltd class. As I was told as long the modifications are not the cause of the problem we will cover it and they did.
iirc added dp ice, milled slide for bo-mars, mainspring housing, slide stop, trigger, magazine release, recoil springs, flgr, bushing barrel. failure was 3 cracked frames SA replaced the frame every time. a 38 super firing pin will work in all SA slides. |
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The only proprietary thing they have is the firing pin, but Ed Brown and EGW make .075" pins that will work. The MSH/lock mess is easy to throw away and replace with a proper unit. So, instead of specially equipping a gun to sell to someone in The Peoples Republic of California, they sell it to all 50 states? Seems like they would want to sell a proper unit to gun friendly states. Is this common practice with many of the other mfgs, catering to California gun laws? There was a TRP for sale locally without the factory box, only the gun and spare mag for $850.00 last week. Almost jumped on it. There is a nearly new one in the box this week asking in the $1300.00 range. May let it go for a while and make an offer. |
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Another proprietary part is the hammer. SA MIM hammer inlcude 1/4 cock notch and 1/2 cock notch. (Note: SA tool steel hammer that SACS used does not have 1/4 cock notch, it has the traditional 1/2 cock notch only)
ILS simply replaced cable lock other manufacturers shipped with new pistols. It make sense to have one configuration to fulfill all different needs whether it make sense to everyone. |
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So, instead of specially equipping a gun to sell to someone in The Peoples Republic of California, they sell it to all 50 states? Seems like they would want to sell a proper unit to gun friendly states. Is this common practice with many of the other mfgs, catering to California gun laws? There was a TRP for sale locally without the factory box, only the gun and spare mag for $850.00 last week. Almost jumped on it. There is a nearly new one in the box this week asking in the $1300.00 range. May let it go for a while and make an offer. Quoted:
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The only proprietary thing they have is the firing pin, but Ed Brown and EGW make .075" pins that will work. The MSH/lock mess is easy to throw away and replace with a proper unit. So, instead of specially equipping a gun to sell to someone in The Peoples Republic of California, they sell it to all 50 states? Seems like they would want to sell a proper unit to gun friendly states. Is this common practice with many of the other mfgs, catering to California gun laws? There was a TRP for sale locally without the factory box, only the gun and spare mag for $850.00 last week. Almost jumped on it. There is a nearly new one in the box this week asking in the $1300.00 range. May let it go for a while and make an offer. I guess. I only buy guns from their custom shop, they don't come with any of that lock mess.  The firing pins don't bother me since I like to fit an EGW oversize anyway.
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