Posted: 10/31/2012 12:59:16 PM EDT
| Just got a 22LR conversion kit from J&G Sales Prescott Az.Well I finally got some ammo to run through it.Blazer,going to try some others also.However after I cleaned it and put it back together ,it fails to chamber a round from the magazine.So far Ive only ran one magazine with 5 rounds thru it without any interruptions.Any ideas from owners of the conversion unit.Its on a Kimber custom @ non-ramped barrel. |
| Expect to run approx. a thousand rounds thru it before you can depend on it !! It took at least that before mine stopped giving problems. Use CCI LR round nose to break it in and after that it will eat anything you put in it. Mine still has a problem on the first clip but after that will not fail with any ammo. |
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Well finally got this piece of @#%$ to work.What a piece of *$%@.It works inconsistently on my KIMBER.Works great on my Colt Compact 1991A1.All in all I would never buy another worthless piece of kit from Kimber.There service department is a JOKe. 1) Mine is not particularly ammo sensitive, but there are brands it does not like. It runs flawlessly on Win Xpert and Win 555/333 so I tend to feed it that. The 555 round box makes for a nice range session anyway. 2) Pay very close attention to fit of the slide to the frame, but also the fit of the slide release to the barrel. The barrel is fixed to the frame with no link, since it's straight blow back operated and not delayed blowback operated. That however means the fit and relationship between the barrel, the slide stop and the frame is crucial. Remove the recoil spring and cycle the slide with the magazine removed. If the slide hangs up or feels rough at all in the cycling process, it will probably be due to the poor fit between those three parts. The solution is to just get a second slide release and then use a sharpie marker to coat the pin on the slide release and see where it may be binding on the barrel. Polish, rinse and repeat until it no longer binds. The odds are it will feed a lot more reliably. And remember you want to remove the metal from the cheap part - the slide release - rather than from the frame or barrel, in large part as you want to be able to still run your .45 ACP slide as well on that frame with the original unaltered slide release. I suspect that may be a large part of why your conversion uint works fine on your other .45, but not on the snugger fit Kimber frame. 3) I had to do the above with mine, and eventually put it on a dedicated frame anyway. But once that was done, it has been relentlessly reliable. 4) I had a pretty serious case of binding with mine and it would not run at all. I suspect some shooters get a much milder case of binding, which is probably where some of the "at least a 1000 rounds to break it in" stories come from. |