Posted: 5/6/2007 5:41:54 PM EDT
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OK, I just got a used series 70 yesterday. How in the hell do I take this damn contraption apart? I can't move the freaking barrel bushing more than 1/8th of an inch. I tried whacking on it with a padded screwdriver handle, hosing it down with WD-40, nothing...the damn thing won't budge. Am I doing something wrong here? |
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Lock the skide to the rear and look at the barrel. The original Series 70 guns had a "stepped" barrel...the muzzle end was a bit larger in OD than the rest of the barrel. Let the assembly all the way forward now. If you push the slide assembly about 1/2in. or so to the rear it should free up the #$@!@! fingered "collett" bushing and you should be able to rotate it with your fingers, then disassemble like any other 1911. If you intend to keep the fingered bushing, do not remove it from the barrel. Just clean around it and reassemble. Word used to be that constant removal and replacement of the bushings on those barrels was a cause of the fingers breaking off. I don't know how true that is because I replaced the thinbg on every one I ever had. |
OK, that worked...kinda... I was able to get the plug out and the slide off, but I couldn't get the bushing out and therefore I couldn't remove the barrel from the slide. |
Brownells 087-045-832 Government Barrel Bushing, Blue, DI $18.95-------No fitting required  Disassembly...."So easy a Caveman can do it" |
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