Swamp

Somehow I messed up a sear spring but good and finally ordered a new one rather than the trial and error adjusting of an armature. I bought a Wilson Combat Bullet Proof Sear Spring stuck it in and couldn't believe the wonderful trigger I now have. I mean Kimbers come with a real nice target trigger out of the box but Wilson Combat kicks it up a few notches. Best 6 bucks and 5 minutes I ever spent and it was so good I bought one for all my other Kimbers.

Wilson Combat Bullet Proof Sear Spring 1911 - MidwayUSA

JohnnyT

Sear springs can be a little tricky, Swamp. Like anything else pertaining to the 1911 these days...you'd be unwise to count on it being a drop-in part. I trust that you tested the gun for hammer followdown after the switch?

cohee

JohnnyT

The way I read Kuhnhausen's manual, if you get each let bent so that each leg conforms to the OAL posted, you are good to go.

I am a fair hand at using big hammers, sometimes the little things get by me.

Iffn you ever pass through Nashville, I would be honored to buy you a lunch and get a chance to pick your mind. I might even have a Norinco or two to show you. I can also use help on my current project of doing up a national match lorcin target pistol.

My second cuzzin up in Princeton, KY, Buford, is going to come down soon and show me how to TIG. With that knowledge, a bench grinder and a couple of eight pound hammers, I will be a reg-lar smiffin fool.

Let me know when you are coming West.

JohnnyT

I 'preciate the invite, cohee. Unfortunately, a ravaged lower back prevents me from long-distance motor travel. I'm good for about 45 minutes at a time...and another 45 minutes of walkin' around to stretch things out means that an 8-hour trip to Music City would take me 16 hours...not countin' pit stops and eatin' time.

The specs and OAL given in Kuhnhausen's little brown book depend on whether or not the spring is actually dimensioned to spec...which I've found that sometimes isn't the case. The good part is that most of the better aftermarket springs are at the top end of spec tolerance for length on the center and right legs, so it's not a major problem to shorten as needed, as long as the bevel is established on the center leg and polsihed, things generally go well. Fail to cut that bevel and polish on a spring that doesn't have it, and the sharp corner will eat the disconnect's reset angle up in pretty short order.

Of course, our new protege' is aware of that...I guess.

Brownells lists the OEM spring in the Colt factory parts section. I've found these to be the best of the lot, and often don't even require tweakin' for proper tension. If the gun and its parts are correctly within spec...they provide the best chance for a simple drop-in and go.

Wild Bill Caldwell

cohee and Johnny Tee.....Me and Bobby Magee

RE: 8 pound beaters and grinders....smiffin fool.....Travel back a few years with Me .....1953/54..... , Hot A$$ August La, Morn.....MY Daddy has got My UNHAPPY A$$ on a millin' machine , way more loose than My A$$ is unhappy....BOSS CHARLIE....."Someday what You are learnin' now will be a big help to You , You can take a Millin' Machine and a Side Grinder and make any thing but a Livein' " WB, " But I DAMM sure ain't gonna run one of these things when I get grown".....Boss Charlie , " Just what You gonna do"?.....WB, " DRIVE A LOG TRUCK AND PLAY LEAD GUITAR FOR EARNEST TUBB"

Come On cohee ....You got to git past the big hammer stage of Yore Smithin schoolin' ....fer instance ....punches , cotton picker spindles make great punches as is , about Max size for mainspring housein' pins thro..... And I don't mean to start a controversty but there ain't a DAMM reason in the world to use a bigger than six pound hammer on a 1911...Unless for slide fittin', then let Cletus hold the frame and use a twelve.......Any more questions ask swanpussie..."it" knows it all

Wild Bill

Wild Bill Caldwell

Johnny Tee....I beleive Yore "proteejay" to be an "UNRULEY STUNENT" ..... You might think about sendin' "its' down to cohee fer remedial schoolin'....Cletus and Festus might could get "it" refocused

Wild Bill

cohee

Wild Bill,

Guess I will have to buy punches at Lowes. All the cotton pickers hereabouts packed up and moved to Deetroit.

Dunno iffn I want to take on any apprentices at this stage of my development. However, I have a third cousin, Mumford who raises sheep over in West By Gawd. He's always looking for sheep hands.

Have swamp buy a pair of hip boots and I will send him directions on how to get to Mumford's place.

JohnnyT

cohee...An AR15 firing pin makes a perfect armorer's tool for a stock 1911, and a near-perfect one for one that's got a buncha unnecessary bells and whistles. I keep three here. One as designed to push the mainspring cap pin...one ground flat for the Series 80 trigger bar lever installation...and one ground round to punch out the mainspring pin. The stock firing pin will do if you don't detail strip very often. It brads up the small tit and it won't push out the mainspring cap pin if it's used too much...but a couple times a month, and it'll last a long time. 'Course, it won't help with the Series 80 trigger bar lever...but you can grind a nail flat to do that with.

As much as I've got'em apart, it pays me to keep the trio handy. I think Brownells lists a cheap one for about 7 bucks. No need to pop for the top bananna since it's just a takedown tool.

See...Ol Eugene Stoner was a pretty sharp cookie in his own right. Rumor has it that when he got wind of the US Army's interest in his rifle, he redesigned the firing pin to compliment the US service pistol. The early ones didn't have that middle step that fits the sear pin hole like...well...like it was designed for it.

JohnnyT

Now, Bill...Behave yorese'f and give Swamp a chance at redemption. I'm confident that we can make a hand out of him eventually.

Wild Bill Caldwell

coohee , PM from swamppuss says " You ingnorant smart a...s , think You know it all but You are lettin' Your MASTERB!$&*^ hand lead you wrong...if You were as smart as You think You are and not arrogant You would know You don't ware hip boots workin' sheep , you wear knee boots and stick the back legs of the sheep in the knee boots" ...........See John , I told You Your boy "it" was a sick sick sick puppy

Wild Bill

JohnnyT

Ah! I remember the days when men were men and sheep were nervous...

cohee

Being totally innocent and ignorant of such things, I am told by parties that are in the know that the hip boots are necessary if you are 'stump breaking' a sheep. That is, standing the sheep's front legs on a large level cut stump. Maybe swamp would know more about this than me.

Anyhow, Mumford requires his sheep hands to buy a good pair of hip boots before they start wrangling woolies.

Wild Bill Caldwell

Among other things "it" called Me was ingnorant so I guess I am...I had no Idea about the boots , regardless an et al Tenny shoes , Gum boots or Hipboots.....That stump breakin' is something I don't want to even picture in My mind , Hay , that is worse than the dreaded MASTERB*%&$@# "it" has the fixation on.......Does STUMPBREAKIN' cause Blindness like MASTERB@$#%*^

Wild Bill

Wild Bill Caldwell

Come on JohnyTee.....How can a blind "it" shoot paper groups like the target "it"shows.......Proterjay....HAHA some PROTERJAY You Got My Man.....Is PROTERJAY what You would call an apprentince WOOlie Wrangler....Maybe "it" can change sear springs in Wollies

Wild Bill

cohee

Makes you go blind and def. Speak up, WHATTUD YOU SAY? WHO TURNED THE LIGHTS OUT????

Only problem is you can't run very fast wearing hip boots.

JohnnyT

Bad thing about stump breakin'em is ya gotta walk so far to kiss'em afterward.

'Least, that's what I hear...

Wild Bill Caldwell

Out on the sandy playground at the old Coumbia school, recess , most of Us are 5th and 6th graders ....." Cootie" Taylor is layin' it on all of Us , braggin' about His sexual conquests , Coot said , "Hell Men, first I ever had , Her Mama caught Us just as............." Wild Bill ask, "Daammm Cootie , what did Her Mama Say?" Cottie replied.............."MMMOOOOOO"

Wild Bill

I know....TERRIBLE AIN"T It....butt I signed Wild Bill to it , didn't I

cohee

Kinda funny how this thread drifted from 1911 searsprings to un-natural perversion and deviant practices. Speaking of which, Mumford, my 3d cousin up in West By Gawd onst tole about the most abominable thing to ever pass my ears. May the good lord strike dead anyone caught doin this horrible thing.

You need a kid goat, a baby goat before it grows teeth. A baby bottle full of warm milk and a LOT of privacy. I don't know anything about this personnaly, but Mumford told me that you expose your male member and drop a couple of drops of warm milk on it.

STOP!
STOP!

I can't go on, this is so disgusting and perverted. Maybe swampit could pick up and continue this tale. I got to go puke and scrub my keyboard digits of the filth I have encountered.

JohnnyT

Well, Helle's Belles, cohee. I told him about the sear spring thing...or at least all I dared to lest he go tweakin' on it lighten up the trigger...and it seemed like a natural progression. I can see the correlation between sear springs and farm animals. Can't you?

That's the beauty of an unmoderated forum. Ain't nobody to rein it back in when it goes off on a tangent.

By the way...That milk bottle thing was disgustin'. You've put me right off my bagel.

Wild Bill Caldwell

Hell.....What do I know........"it" might have been the sanest of all of Us

Damm if this don't remind Me of settin on the berm , watchin' INCOMEIN'.....drinkin, some smokein' DOPE and everybody tellin' lies

Wild Bill

Wild Bill Caldwell

Johnny ....Who needs moderation yet....."it" probably flew out to the leftist coast, used that HottRodden Ruger , shot a 15 shot group @ 500yds in Lashs' RECTAL CAVITY insurein' this is one forum "it" won't be kicked off of......Hey , Yaw'll got it all to Yourselves for awhile , I'm playin' lead guitar tonite , a little TONK dead in the heart of Pistol Thicket....No Lie .....Loadin' up now ...See Yazw'l Sunday

Wild Bill

cohee

Wild Bill,

PM me with an email address. I got a pitchur of swampit. Photobucket is going to kick me off if I upload this disgusting thing one more time.

I will attach it to an email to your in private. I ain't fer sure which one is swampit, but he's one of two in the front of the pitchur.

This is disgusting, I aim to send it to you and erase my hard drive. Might even smash it with one of my smiffin or watch repair hammers.

JohnnyT

cohee...Incomin' PM. Send it to me. Billy's off in some juke joint tonight, and I gotta see.

cohee

JohnnyT

Email inbound with attachment. Put your welder's goggles on before you open the attachment.

This is the most disgusting, filthy, vile, perverted thing I have ever seen. I may burn my computer hard drive after smashing it with a smiffin hammer.

Prolly ought to put your welder's gloves on too!

I leave it to you whether this is suitable for posting on this board. Please foward it on to Wild Bill. Could you imagine anything worse that waking up with a hangover and opening up this picture of swampit.

JohnnyT

I was gonna post if for ya...seein' as how you was havin' trouble puttin' up a picture...but on second thought...

nah.

cohee

JohnnyT

Did you figure out which one was swamp?

Yall know him better than I do, I'm a new hand here and can't figger which is which.

Did you forward this to Wild Bill? Warn him not to open it until his hangover clear up.

JohnnyT

I think I did. Hard to tell, though...