I sent in a fully functional, but very rusty, Springfield in for one of these new teflon/poly finishes. Gun now looks great but doesn't work. It won't lock the slide open on an empty mag and it won't chamber the first round from a full mag from slide lock. I'm starting to hear that the finish is thick enough to change specs to the point of causing these problems. Can this be? This Springfield is a plain jane model, no ultra tight fitting, no match grade nothing. I have checked a little and it does appear that the slide stop is dragging on the pin enough to keep it from going into the notch freely. The bolt face does look like it would hang up a cartridge, especially with a tighter extractor fit. But why only a full mag? Sheesh, I should have lived with the rust, except that it was pretty bad and was even in some of the internal areas. Maybe I'll go with hard chrome from now on.
Re-finish causing 1911 to malf
- Thread starter nwgunman
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I have owned several BearCoat weapons and one from High Standard that must be a Birdsong. More reliable than before. In one on duty incident, the gun fired after being immersed in mud and water.
Who did yours? Exactly what is the finish?
Sounds like more improper fitting than finish. Sounds like magazine catch is weak, not holding magazine fully up. Brownell's makes a very good one, WC wolff makes spring for stock catch.Let me know who did this one---
Who did yours? Exactly what is the finish?
Sounds like more improper fitting than finish. Sounds like magazine catch is weak, not holding magazine fully up. Brownell's makes a very good one, WC wolff makes spring for stock catch.Let me know who did this one---
Mike Irwin
Staff
"can this be?"
YES!
When you have a refinish done on a gun with something that "builds up" the finish, such as parkerizing or tefloning, you have to break the gun in all over again!
It's like rebuilding a well-broken-in engine. It may be the same old block, but the new parts have to mate together, and that takes time and functional wear.
YES!
When you have a refinish done on a gun with something that "builds up" the finish, such as parkerizing or tefloning, you have to break the gun in all over again!
It's like rebuilding a well-broken-in engine. It may be the same old block, but the new parts have to mate together, and that takes time and functional wear.
I put about 200+ rounds through the pistol when I got it back from Bearcoat. I started getting nervous about the slide slamming home on an empty chamber every time the mag was empty. The mags are all fairly new Wilsons. The recoil spring is also fairly new (ie less than 1,000 rounds) Wolfe 18.5lb. As far as "beaking it in", how would I "break in" the slide stop engaging the notch without running the mag empty? I did a hundred or so reps of locking it in by hand (and that's a chore!) but this didn't work. I guess my main "whine" is that the coating appears to have changed the clearances enough to malf the gun. I specifically asked about this before I shipped it out. Once I wire bush, buff and polish, change out some parts, and basically remove the coating, things work. Of course, the pistol may have been just barely operational before, and the slight changes pushed it into fault mode. Well, all this has given me the motivation to get inside the 1911 and better know how the pistol works. And, yup, it "looks" great! They say to NOT lube the gun, tho. So once again I ask...can this be? Thanks for all your replies. Stay safe.