paulg
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Post by paulg on Dec 18, 2015 18:29:16 GMT -5
Since I'm on a 1911 kick I bought a Para USA Elite Commander today. Will be my last gun buy for a long time since my health insurance rates are gonna eat me alive. Anyway I need to know what parts to replace to make JMB proud. I believe most of the small stuff is MIM except the trigger which is plastic. Who's parts should I buy? They will be fitted by a competent gunsmith. Or should I just leave it alone and save the money?
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gregs
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Post by gregs on Dec 18, 2015 19:21:48 GMT -5
The lockwork is MIM to include the thumb safety and most likely the slide stop but I've been wrong before. MIM has come a long way in the past 20 years so I wouldn't be to quick to throw it under the bus, you might get 25-30K outta those parts before it would need the standard tune up/rebuild. The extractor will be due for replacement @ 10K and the lockwork will need a touch up @ 15-30K which at that time I'd invest in tool steel sear and hammer, properly fitted and tuned. I'd say for now, shoot it hard and put it up wet for the first K and see what improvements you deem required before changing anything.
If something breaks, replace it with a quality part (Wilson). Recommend recoil spring change @ 1K intervals. Those shorter slides are hell on recoil springs and look at changing mag springs annually on high use mags to prevent feeding problems. Also, no recoil/shock buffers in Cmdr or shorter guns.
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paulg
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Post by paulg on Dec 18, 2015 19:43:34 GMT -5
Thank you gregs.
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rWt
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Post by rWt on Dec 19, 2015 6:08:33 GMT -5
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Dec 19, 2015 7:35:00 GMT -5
Shoot it! Replace what breaks ... and that may be nothing.
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