Carving the 1911 from Steel

Agent Law said:
Investment casting and metal injection molding are high-end manufacturing, that can create very strong products if designed correctly. Making gun components (especially small parts) from billets and forgings is almost as much marketing as it is tangible benefits. Most internal parts in an HK pistol are MIM, but few would say that they are low-end, or prone to breakage. Are there limitations? Sure. But knowing where to apply them allows you to create a less costly product that is indistinguishable in critical areas to more costly (and time consuming) techniques.
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you are comparing apples to oranges. The design of a 1911 is already established, you cannot change a parts dimensions to suit M.I.M. manufacturing.

H.K. is not low price but they have always been at the front of low cost manufacturing.
 
nice video.
during the broaching operation I watched the woman putting her hands in the cutting oil; there was some pretty nasty chemicals in that back then-even up until the 1970's. Remember reading some new tapping/cutting oil we got in the shop and it said "now safe for machinists to inhale"!!
BTW some of those "old obsolete" machines can hold very tight tolerances with the right operators :)
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buckbrush said:
you are comparing apples to oranges. The design of a 1911 is already established, you cannot change a parts dimensions to suit M.I.M. manufacturing.

H.K. is not low price but they have always been at the front of low cost manufacturing.
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I disagree that the 1911 design is set in stone. After all, current manufacturers aren't making USGI 1911's. You can't exactly tear apart a modern Colt, Kimber, and Springfield (deliberately avoiding semi-custom makers), toss them into a box, put them back together mixed up, and expect them to fit, much less function 100%. (As far as I know. I might be wrong.)

I would argue HK is low price, but that's relative.
 
sm said:
nice video.
during the broaching operation I watched the woman putting her hands in the cutting oil; there was some pretty nasty chemicals in that back then-even up until the 1970's. Remember reading some new tapping/cutting oil we got in the shop and it said "now safe for machinists to inhale"!!
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Yeah and soaking their hands in it day after day spells all kinds of cancers, like liver for example, filtering that junk out of the body.

Cool video though.
 
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