My new Norinco chrome 1911 UPDATED PICS!

redddogg69 said:
Love it. Did you make that out of two commanders?
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Nope, that the original 1911 Nork, one piece old model Commander.
Slide is shine polished and re-blued by me and frame is hard chromed by Rodger at DARK, grips are rosewood hand made by K. Ahrends.
*now...the rest is just my own work, exchanged all internal with parts from: Ed Brown, Les Baer, Wilson, Spring, Fusion and Dlask.
 
these Norc 1911 chrome look really nice, i'll get one when they have in 9mm.
i have small hands, how's the 1911 grip compare to CZ 75B?
i find the CZ is double stack mag so is a bit too big for my hand, hope the 1911 is smaller (thinner mag)
anyone has them both please let me know
thanks
 
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Mine came yesterday and I won't lie...I always get my hopes up and I'm still always a little dissapointed once I tear these suckers down. Looks pretty good on the outside, lots of tool marks and stains of some sort on the insides, springs under rear sight were rusty as ####. Both mags I got looked well used, but no big deal because nork mags are pretty much crap anyway. Firing pin was bent, and grip safety was fit by a blind kid by the looks of it.
Sights are good and everything functions well, trigger pull is surprisingly decent, slide to frame fit is OK, not much rattle, recoil spring is way too light for these guns, factory is 16lbs for a 5" .45, I like to run 18lbs, this feels about 13lbs but I got spares on the way. Sear spring is crap and not worth tuning, I have spares of those already kicking around. Bushing to slide fit is OK, but barrel to bushing is loose....EGW will be taking care of that once I clean it up and measure everything. Lock up is light so a longer link will be thrown in there too.
Mainspring housing is plastic, but it's better plastic then comes with most 1911's...it's quite hard, and I may just keep it. I probably won't be changing too much on it for parts....probably repaint the sight blades black or just re-do the dots orange...not sure yet, new trigger, and the other springs n #### I already mentioned. I just ain't a pretty gun But it should shoot well when I'm done with it. It's a $350 gun....worth that, but not a penny more. Not a whole lot of improvement in QC on these from my 10 year old NP29...
Doesn't seem to be much windage adjustment with the rear sight screws...not the end of the world as both front and rear are driftable. Looks way better back together lol....hiding all the messy guts.
 
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Hitzy said:
Mine came yesterday and I won't lie...I always get my hopes up and I'm still always a little dissapointed once I tear these suckers down. Looks pretty good on the outside, lots of tool marks and stains of some sort on the insides, springs under rear sight were rusty as ####. Both mags I got looked well used, but no big deal because nork mags are pretty much crap anyway. Firing pin was bent, and grip safety was fit by a blind kid by the looks of it.
Sights are good and everything functions well, trigger pull is surprisingly decent, slide to frame fit is OK, not much rattle, recoil spring is way too light for these guns, factory is 16lbs for a 5" .45, I like to run 18lbs, this feels about 13lbs but I got spares on the way. Sear spring is crap and not worth tuning, I have spares of those already kicking around. Bushing to slide fit is OK, but barrel to bushing is loose....EGW will be taking care of that once I clean it up and measure everything. Lock up is light so a longer link will be thrown in there too.
Mainspring housing is plastic, but it's better plastic then comes with most 1911's...it's quite hard, and I may just keep it. I probably won't be changing too much on it for parts....probably repaint the sight blades black or just re-do the dots orange...not sure yet, new trigger, and the other springs n #### I already mentioned. I just ain't a pretty gun But it should shoot well when I'm done with it. It's a $350 gun....worth that, but not a penny more. Not a whole lot of improvement in QC on these from my 10 year old NP29...
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I have 2 Norincos, one in 9mm, and one in 45. All of my springs have been changed out with Wolfe springs. I did use the factory springs to break in the guns though.
Ivor
 
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Hand fitted an Ed Brown Match trigger, and oversized nowlin barrel bushing. The bushing is very tight, and the trigger feels a million times better. I have a bunch more parts on the way, and will post pics as they come.
 
Well I almost have this thing ready to shoot. Changed out a few parts but nothing major or expensive. Got the barrel nice and tight, both the hood and muzzle have no play anymore thanks to EGW....$6 #3 link, $22 for a .699/.582 thick flange bushing which was on sale and exactly the size I needed for a tight drop in fit, $22 steel msh with 25lpi, $7 for an 18# variable recoil spring, $5 for a 19# mainspring, had an old nowlin trigger I threw in, and painted the dots orange, magpul grips $16. I still need to file the frame around the BT...it was done badly and will pinch your skin when you grab on.
Might get to shoot it this weekend hopefully.






 
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I got rid of the ambi safety, and hand fitted Wilson combat slide stop and thumb safety. Added a 2 peice guide rod from ed brown, and polished up some pins and the mag catch. Also polished up the grip safety, Firing pin stop and extractor. I have about 10 more parts still on the way from brownells!!!
 
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Hitzy said:
Well I almost have this thing ready to shoot. Changed out a few parts but nothing major or expensive. Got the barrel nice and tight, both the hood and muzzle have no play anymore thanks to EGW....$6 #3 link, $22 for a .699/.582 thick flange bushing which was on sale and exactly the size I needed for a tight drop in fit, $22 steel msh with 25lpi, $7 for an 18# variable recoil spring, $5 for a 19# mainspring, had an old nowlin trigger I threw in, and painted the dots orange, magpul grips $16. I still need to file the frame around the BT...it was done badly and will pinch your skin when you grab on.
Might get to shoot it this weekend hopefully.
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Looks great! Love that trigger. Any more plans for yours?
 
Probably not going to do anything else to it....the rest of the small parts are functional on it, the ambi safety is decent, I like that it's not the arm under the grip for retention type. I have some standard GI style plugs so I may lose the flgr, and I have a GI style slide stop but I don't mind the extended version on this gun. Even the mag catch is tolerable. This is the 5th 1911 in the safe....I'm just going to shoot it and beat the #### out of it now...it's nice to have a beater one I'm not worried about scratching or destroying lol
 
This is my first 1911. Its really more of a learning experience. Learning to closely fit small and large parts by hand, how the parts all work together. I want to work my way up to build my own custom 1911 from a bare oversized frame. All the tools and jigs are expensive, so it will take some time.
 
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