picking up speed

svandamme · #1 12-17-2011, 02:05 PM

extractor looks fine too.

It really felt like something in the trigger/safety mechanisme.
It did not jam after firing, it jammed before.
Even after i field stripped, and reassembled.. i racked a fresh round and it jammed again.. so it's not an ejection or feed problem.. the slide was closed, in battery... Really weird..

But on the plus side, i've now gone past the normal field strip and taken it apart to the frame with the help of http://how-i-did-it.org/detail-1911/reassembly.html

That's a great tutorial..

So though it's not clear what caused this, i think it's to do with them SWC's i made.. something was wrong with em.. The gun is fine..

BadOscar · #2 12-17-2011, 02:19 PM

Only thing related to trigger I can think of would be the overtravel screw in the front of the trigger. If it's in to far it will not allow the hammer to fall. Maybe if it came loose something like that could happen.

svandamme · #3 12-17-2011, 02:36 PM

The screw was fine, it would not explain why the thumb safety also refused to engage.
I still think it was dirt, it happened right after that weak load , the one that bounced back undamaged from impact.

And i did find a lot of flakey powder residue on the rear underside of the slide, the area between the slide and where the hammer is pushed down..

back in one piece, all safeties work, i'm calling it a day.
Now i can focus my attention to that other noble time waster : beer !