Tighten that sig slide!!!

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A gunsmith probably would not have done that on a Sig. He would have said take it back to your dealer or let me ship it to Sig if the rattle was bad enough. If it was nothing, he would have said that he wouldn't do anything to it and you should maybe look into another handgun. However, what he did is comendable. Somebody said people have been doing it to 1911's for years and THEY ARE RIGHT. There is actually a tool for it. However, you do the bending before the heat treating when building and you don't move much when its an adjustment on a already used 1911 and all of this isdone very, very carefully. I have never heard of it on a Sig but it might work and if it dosn't then now you know.
 
How about cutting the guy some slack already. He tweaked the slide on a dime a dozen pistol. The way some of you are acting it's like he did a .50AE conversion on an unturned Gen 1 Colt.
 
I'm not saying what he did was stupid. I'm just saying that I've never heard of it on a Sig and because I've never heard of it on a Sig, I wouldn't have done it. However, it stands to reason that if he did it right, and there was an actual problem to begin with, then what he did is kinda neat.
 
my understanding is accuracy is a function of the barrel frame lockup. and if that's tight your good. when I had my sig barrel lockup was solid. sig likes loose slides for reliability.
 
Sigs are my 'reliability first' pistols. They don't get messed with.

I've thought about it with my Colt .38 Super, but it shoots pretty good as is, so I'll experiment with loads and maybe refinishing.
 
BOY, I'D HATE TO SEE WHAT THIS GROUP WOULD DO WHEN THEY FIND OUT HOW GUNSMITHS PROPERLY FIX GUNS THAT FIRE OFF POINT OF AIM...:eek:

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Now you made me check the 3 Sigs I own (9mm, .40S&W, .45ACP).

No rattle.

Perhaps this is a case for sending the firearm back to Sig. They might have done more to bring the weapon back into line.
 
They probably would have scraped the compenent(s) off tolerance. If the Tolerance was very close to right, they probably would have done the same thing with a little more engineering insight involved.
 
I would also say it's a safe bet that most gun owners would take a proverbial crap in their pants if they saw how some guns have to be repaired and customized. I could imagine the look some would give if they saw their $3000.00 match gun stripped down and wrapped in paper with tags attached, that bear near illegable numbers and words. That make no sence to anybody but, the guy who took it apart and is doing the work. I turned out a Raven .25 firing pin out of 3/8 rod, on a drill chuck setup, with a lathe file in front of the guy who just said "I have to have a new firing pin TODAY, RIGHT NOW. Find one PLEEEEEZE!". Then he didn't want it because he said there was no way it would work midway through. It was accurate to .003 after 45 minutes. I didn't plan on working that day and I didn't charge him but, he was in awe.I even wrote it in my journal. Any gunsmith knows thats no big feat, given what part and the tolerances to be held (or lack there of) and having the tools on hand to do it but, I could see why it would look real scary.
 
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I've watched my friend make a part for a VERY expensive double rifle out of a solid brass bullet. Just turned it down, welded the needed parts to it, took it out, and blasted away.
Worked just incredibly well.

To put it bluntly, this man is a magician when it comes to fixing, fitting, polishing, or doing anything with metal.

There are dirty secrets about gunsmithing that most are better off not knowing...
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PS He fixed an antique chair in about 20 minutes that the dealers told me would take about 250 to get started on, or, couldn't be fixed.
 
New Sig P226 Elite

I purchased mine new and haven't even shot it. I noticed the loose slide to frame fit.

I wasn't much but I'd prefer to have a snug slide to frame fit. If it moves side to side then since the barrel is also in the slide it too would be capable of move side to side.

Long story short I've always done my own work to my firearms. For instance permanently correcting the timing on a Ruger Vaquero.

Anyways, I took the slide off and put it in my vice with rubber jaws and slowly clamped down on the slide on the front half since that's where the play was felt at the end of the barrel until it now has such little movement that I'm a happy camper and no it isn't enough to damage the slide to frame fit.

If I were to guess, I'd have to say I may have removed about .008 slop, rough guess after being an inspector in a precision machine shop for 24 years.

When you do things like this you can't go all Rambo on it because that's how many folks screw things up.
 
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Doesn't seem to make sense when you step away and look at this.

A guy registers on this forum in 2004 -- twelve years ago and makes no posts whatsoever... until today... to add his two cents to a discussion that happened ten years ago.

Okay! :p
 
If you've been around since 2004, I'm sure you've seen zombie threads raised from the dead, after years in the ground. And how the moderators put them BACK in the ground, like this one.

Feel free to start a new thread, and tell us all about your topic. Bringing back a thread years dead usually only results in out of date information and comments, which is why we close them again.

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