plinkercases
Regular
- Location
- Southern Ontario
I have a second hand Norinco 1911 in 9mm which was exhibiting an increasing rate of failures to eject despite changes in ammo, springs, magazines, and cleaning the extractor and clean and polish the ramp and chamber et al.
The culprit was a cracked barrel link which as it slowly opened continued to throw the timing further and further out.
Yes I clean and inspect the gun but no the crack wasn't evident to the eye until it finally opened enough to be seen in the last tear down then immediately off to the gunsmith. The smith says even before a visible crack the changes in the tolerances would start to mess it up timing and ejection wise. he confirmed the extractor was in good shape.
15 minutes later after not even leaving the counter at Accurancy Plus (except to go get some impulse purchase ammo and snap caps..) it was preplaced and I was all done. The gun smith tested it with his snap caps and it worked flawlessly every time..... however, I still need to run it with ammo tomorrow and will confirm we have a fix.
The culprit was a cracked barrel link which as it slowly opened continued to throw the timing further and further out.
Yes I clean and inspect the gun but no the crack wasn't evident to the eye until it finally opened enough to be seen in the last tear down then immediately off to the gunsmith. The smith says even before a visible crack the changes in the tolerances would start to mess it up timing and ejection wise. he confirmed the extractor was in good shape.
15 minutes later after not even leaving the counter at Accurancy Plus (except to go get some impulse purchase ammo and snap caps..) it was preplaced and I was all done. The gun smith tested it with his snap caps and it worked flawlessly every time..... however, I still need to run it with ammo tomorrow and will confirm we have a fix.
