-=> 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!
... Hey, look! A completely new undocumented fea&%$#*@ NO CARRIER
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