Need help for 1911 upgrades

[Lead Waster]

Synergy, are your sights driftedto the right or is that an optical illusion from the photo?

[Synergy]

Synergy, are your sights driftedto the right or is that an optical illusion from the photo?

I never noticed it, the pistol shoots true. I just checked it, the rear sight is .008" to the right

[Press Check]

There are two lines of Springfield: Made in Brazil and Made in the USA. Their high end models are made in the USA.

All current production 1911 pistols are manufactured in the United States. Obviously, there are still Imbel pistols in circulation, and based on the shear volume that have been sold over the years, they will always be in circulation, but Springfield discontinued their relationship with Imbel some time ago. You will not see a new production pistol with an N prefix in the serial number, or an Inbel or Made in Brazil marking. Again, all forgings are procured in the United States, and no longer imported from Imbel in Brazil.

Do any of you have experience with Springfields custom shop?

I have extensive experience with SACS. As I always say, they under promise, and over deliver.

On a related side note, the trigger channel in Springfield frames are exceptionally oversized, and to date, the only triggers I have found that are oversized enough to require actual fitment are the 10-8 line of triggers, and the Greider Precision trigger. If the pistol went to SACS, it would prove prudent to include one of those triggers with the pistol, or simply fit one yourself.

[bwhited]

Springfield Custom will take your mil-spec and turn it into a TRP if you want.

[1911R SSS]

The Amby safety's don't look symmetrical either.

[rm1911]

that is just plain bad advice

Apparently you don't have a vise and a dremel. Anything is possible.

[Synergy]

Apparently you don't have a vise and a dremel. Anything is possible.

I hope that comment is sarcasm.

[bwhited]

Only if you do not know how to use them.
Awesome tools when used appropriately.

In the wrong hands they can destroy a perfectly good firearm very quickly.

I hope that comment is sarcasm.

[nahpungnome]

I know, would you look at that fit on my TRP! And I only paid $950.00 for that TRP!

Your sight goes right, your beavertail and hammer go left, wtf?

[GW]

How long would it take for SACS to get the gun back to you?

[John Joseph]

John Moses Browning done it right the first time. Spend all those $$ on ammo and learn how to play ol' slabsides like Andre Rieu plays his violin.

[Press Check]

How long would it take for SACS to get the gun back to you?

Depends on what you're having done. Usually, checkering will considerably delay the time it takes to complete a pistol, or requesting a coating that needs to be outsourced, but whatever the turn-around time is, rest assured, it is worth it.

[Synergy]

Your sight goes right, your beavertail and hammer go left, wtf?

My camera angle was not at a complete 90.

[Killer Bee]

Apparently you don't have a vise and a dremel. Anything is possible.

apparently you have absolutely no idea what tools I have or what I can do with them and you have obviously confused me with the op..

first of all, yes, it is plain bad advice to coerce someone to take power tools to a firearm by teasing or shaming them as in the post I was referring to..

I do have probably about a hundred power tools of various types, sizes, and means of power.. including a couple of dremels, shaft drive and direct.. I also have three vises in my garage, one has soft jaws in it already and the larger iron working vise has soft jaws that fit it when I need them..

I have rebuilt big gas and diesel engines, I have rebuilt huge hydrostats, I can machine and fit parts with various tools to various tolerances.. blah, blah, blah.. however, absolutley none of that makes me a pistolsmith or a gunsmith of any kind.. just like I highly doubt the average gunsmith can take the hydrosatic transmission apart in a 250t crane nor would I expect him to..

so although I have a substantial amount of high tolerance metal fitting work under my belt..

try googling flatness measurement by reading lightbands through an optical flat with a monocromatic light.. I ran high pressure hydrostat parts on a lapmaster power table that would hold less than 5% flow decay at 7500psi at 1800 rpm.. don't recall all the specific brands / parts / flatness specs but we measured flatness of metal to metal running surfaces of valve plates, bearing plates, cylinder barrels, etc. in lightbands which are on the same scale of millionths of an inch.. check it out..

I still send my guns to gunsmiths..

furthermore, by that logic, why send a glock to a glock guy, or send a sig to a sig guy? hell, just find anyone with a vise and a dremel let them have at it

while anything might be possible, it is definately not probable..

if the op happens to have some sort of machining and or gunsmithing experience, then by all means he should consider what he can build on his own if he's up to the task.. but I'll bet he's more likely to not have either of those skill sets or else he probably would have mentioned that in the op or constructed his question differently.. not knocking him in any way, but there really is a very small slice of individuals in that business and an even smaller slice that actually know what they are doing..

[rm1911]

apparently you have absolutely no idea what tools I have or what I can do with them and you have obviously confused me with the op..

Lighten up Francis. I was being, or trying to be, humorous. Apparently I failed. Google bubba-ing a gun or dremel gunsmithing for a good laugh or cry.

I have no idea what skills or tools people have. Gunsmithing is a craft and takes great skill and training and years to master. I can change the grips on my 1911's and was able to swap out the stock on my 10/22. Beyond that I won't go near my guns with tools.