Posted: 2/25/2011 7:40:54 AM EDT
| Any pics of Delta with the Wilson drop in beavertail? |
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Is a Delta Elite significantly different than the standard 1911? If not, here's my 1991 with the Wilson drop in beavertail: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/green_c/GUNS/112_1214.jpg No it should be same Mil spec.....that looks like the fit is ok... |
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I picked up a Wilson Combat drop in over the weekend at the gun show. I broke down my stainless Delta and put it in just to check the fit, thinking that I would for sure have to do a least a little bit of fitting around the part that engages the trigger bow. To my surprise, not one bit of fitting or filing was required. even better, the fit around the tangs on the frame was just about right!
By no means is it a custom job professionally blended to the frame, but it will do the trick for the $35 it cost for the part. In any case, it's a much better fit and feel that the horrible little spur type safety that comes on the deltas. ETA: The finish on the drop in is a standard brushed stainless, where as that part of the frame on the Delta is that awful bead blasted finish, so the finishes don't really match all that well. This is a minor inconvenience though, and since I am thinking of getting the whole gun refinished anyaway, this is probably a temporary problem. I'll see if I can get some before and after pics posted up tonight. |
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Quoted: Here are some before and afters.... Before, with the spur safety http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5577364482_206dc0d084_b.jpg After with the Wilson Drop in safety http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5179/5577364504_5296b48365_b.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5577364488_77c4e9b3e5_b.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5260/5577364496_e58f16af20_b.jpg Thank you for that.  |
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Next up to be replaced is the plastic mainspring housing. I ordered a flat serrated mainspring housing that should look really good. Then eventually the whole thing will be off to get refinished. Not sure what I want to do yet.
Should I get it melonited, hard-chromed, or just painted with some form of cerokote, permakote or similar? I cant decide. ETA: I bought the gun "used", so it already had that damn idiot scratch on it. It's not nearly as bad as it looks in the picture, the flash just really picked it up for some reason. The price ($550) was too good to pass up though, so I guess I'll just have to live with it. The gun was supposedly brand new never been fired, and it does otherwise look brand new, so I think it was a pretty good deal. |