Hey guys!
I just bought a .45 Norinco 1911 (new) and its got two major issues - I hope a user more experienced with 1911's than me can help me fix it! Thanks in advance!
First of all I want to mention that I took the gun apart completely and cleaned and lubed it properly. Everything looks good, dry cycling it runs VERY smoothly and all of the problems only pop up when firing it. Its got 500 rounds down the pipe so far.
BUT - it ejects standard 850 fp/s hardball brass 20+ft. I immediately swapped the spring with an 18.5lbs spring and it hardly helped at all. I got two 20lbs springs and I get coil stacking with each of them, so cannot use em.
I have no idea why it ejects the brass that hard, I have a Glock 41 which uses a lighter spring and a lighter slide and it ejects the same round 6ft.
Next issue is the slide stop. It will stop the slide on the last round only 50% of the time, the other 50% it gets stuck HARD in the down position.
It will do that with various quality magazines, and no, the slide stop will absolutely NOT slip under the magazine follower, that's what I checked first. The slide stop is stuck so tight I cannot engage it with my thumb, only taking the magazine out (which is also stuck) gets it working again.
The slide stop does not have any brass marks on it and it does not wiggle around.
Dry cycling the gun it works every time. There are no scratch marks anywhere on the magazines.
I have yet to find a slide stop with the same diameter as the original, it seems to have weird measurements.
I'm mostly a Glock guy, so this is all a big mystery to me.
Thanks!
I just bought a .45 Norinco 1911 (new) and its got two major issues - I hope a user more experienced with 1911's than me can help me fix it! Thanks in advance!
First of all I want to mention that I took the gun apart completely and cleaned and lubed it properly. Everything looks good, dry cycling it runs VERY smoothly and all of the problems only pop up when firing it. Its got 500 rounds down the pipe so far.
BUT - it ejects standard 850 fp/s hardball brass 20+ft. I immediately swapped the spring with an 18.5lbs spring and it hardly helped at all. I got two 20lbs springs and I get coil stacking with each of them, so cannot use em.
I have no idea why it ejects the brass that hard, I have a Glock 41 which uses a lighter spring and a lighter slide and it ejects the same round 6ft.
Next issue is the slide stop. It will stop the slide on the last round only 50% of the time, the other 50% it gets stuck HARD in the down position.
It will do that with various quality magazines, and no, the slide stop will absolutely NOT slip under the magazine follower, that's what I checked first. The slide stop is stuck so tight I cannot engage it with my thumb, only taking the magazine out (which is also stuck) gets it working again.
The slide stop does not have any brass marks on it and it does not wiggle around.
Dry cycling the gun it works every time. There are no scratch marks anywhere on the magazines.
I have yet to find a slide stop with the same diameter as the original, it seems to have weird measurements.
I'm mostly a Glock guy, so this is all a big mystery to me.
Thanks!
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