very dumb mistake need help

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3-charlie

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i'm such a fool,

first time completely stripping a 1911. got a little flustered putting the sear and disconecter back in. so wasn.t paying attention. put thumb safety on but had strut on wrong side of grip safety. hammer wasn't cocked and cant be cocked to remove thumb safety and put the strut under the grip safety. any suggestions.

like i said in the title i'm a fool.

thanks,
please reply after you have stopped laughing because i'm crying by now. lol
 
do you have the Main Spring Housing still on and the Seer Spring?
cause if ya do just take them off and that should give you more room and take any pressure off the hammer.

trying to visualize what you did......
 
Lololol. Ok what he said ^ also I'm not sure what you mean by the strut is on the wrong side of the grip safety doesn't it go into the hole?
 
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didn't have the strut under the grip safety or the hammer cocked. can only get the hammer a little to the rear. i can't be the first to do this in the 100 year history of the pistol. if so i quit lol.
 
I'm trying to picture this in my head but I'm not having any luck because I didn't think what you described is possible, any chance you can post pics.
 
So when you put the grip safety in, the hammer strut was flipped up and away from the frame, basically about 180 degrees from where it should be.
 
Yeah, pics are definitely needed, or a better description using proper terminology. If by strut you mean the hammer strut I don't understand how it could've gotten on the wrong side of the grip safety... unless you actually disconnected it from the hammer and reassembled it the wrong way??

I remember once I had a similar problem though, where I needed to #### the hammer for some reason but it wouldn't budge (at that point the hammer strut wasn't seated on the mainspring cap so the hammer wasn't under any spring pressure). There's a way to fiddle around with the sear/disconnector assembly (use a plastic pic or something) to release the hammer and allow you to #### it. Just a thought.

edit: oh and you're not a fool by the way. We all make mistakes when learning new things. Most people use gunsmiths for even the most basic procedures but they never learn anything new. You may've f'd up, but at least you challenged yourself... and hopefully, you'll learn something ;)
 
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I'm sure this is a real simple solution but I have no clue how the strut can be on the wrong side of the grip safety?

need pics

the hammer has to be cocked to put the thumb safety in. (safety goes in halfway between on and off position) did you get that far? the thumb safety pin holds the grip safety in place

you need to remove the thumb safety to get the grip safety off to get to the hammer and strut loose
 
thanks all, figured it out had to jiggle the hammer and thumb safety until the thumb safety came out. what a relief, won't do that again.
 
Yeah, always best to remove & start again.

Detail stripping & reassembling a 1911 is fun, eh? :p

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I'm sure many of us have stripped something ........and had a little trouble getting it back together afterwards, mine was my sti gp6....man oh man....glad I didn't have to do that too often...lol
 
3-charlie said:
yes i agree,

second time around shouldn't be to bad. next time i'll be patient and pay attention.

thanks all
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if you use iphone or ipad there is a free app called Gun Disassembly that has the 1911 as one of its free guns on there.
shows you step by step how to take it down and put it back together.
also has a function where YOU have to do it, kinda neat. i used it back when i get into 1911's to get good knowledge of the gun before i went balls deep into a detailed tare-down.
 
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I'm sure many of us have stripped something ........and had a little trouble getting it back together afterwards, mine was my sti gp6....man oh man....glad I didn't have to do that too often...lol
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When I wanted to disassemble my first revolver everyone told me I shouldn't ever remove the side plate. I did it anyway, and removed everything else, and spent the next few hours thinking I might have to swallow my pride and bring a bag'o'parts to the gunsmith's. Armed with patience and a reference manual, I finally got it back together and learned quite a bit in the process.
 
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