Subj : Re: all original
To   : MOONDOG
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Tue Jun 02 2020 07:41 am

-=> MOONDOG wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 MO> My father was trained to be a machinist in the Army back in the early
 MO> 1960's.
 MO>  He was stationed in Germany, and assigned to work in a repair shop.
 MO> The armorers would perform triage on firearms coming into the shop,
 MO> then send the parts to machinists with a description of services to be
 MO> performed.  He said the most common problem was roll pins would
 MO> eventually wear down from constant insertion and removal during
 MO> cleaning, and the armorer's cure was tapping threads in the pin holes
 MO> and replacing the pins with screws.  He said some of the older armorers
 MO> were really sharp, and would secretly build theirselves up competion
 MO> grade 1911's.  They would tighten up the slides with a vise, then
 MO> polish and stone all the contact surfacee and adjusted trggers. There
 MO> were regualr inspections and suspicion that some guns were not being
 MO> documented or destroyed as claimed, however the smiths would be in a
 MO> constant game of hiding things.

LOL - that's funny, and totally believable! Love hearing stuff like that!




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