Posted: 8/20/2009 6:22:35 PM EDT
| firing my auto-ordnance 1911 ww2 parkerized today and had more than a couple FTE. I am still in the "break in" period (under 500 rounds). was shooting mostly WWB with about a dozen rounds of blazer aluminium cased rounds. out of about a 150 rounds, I had about 12 -15 FTEs. This was out of 7 different mags (4 GI, 1 Stainless 10 rd, 1 Factory 7 round, 1 Kimber 8 rd) each had at least 1 FTE at some point, more as the day progressed. Now should I look at this as an extractor problem or just 7 shitty mags? TIA |
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Sounds like an extractor tension problem... you can take two crescent wrenches to secure the ends of extractor and the neck of a door knob to adjust tension.. Your quote " more as the day progressed ".... that tells me you were loosing tension as extractor heated up.
ETA: You can over tension.. then an FTE becomes a FTF... |
| Sounds like an extractor problem. Take you slide off of your pistol, remove the barrel and place a round under the extractor and if the round fails to be retained by the extractor, it needs more tension. I always make sure the extractor has enough tension to hold the round in place but not enough where I have to put a lot of pressure on the round to get it up under the extractor because to much tension can be just a bad. |
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Failure to extract is caused by the extractor not mags. Did this only happen with the Blazer or the WWB or both?
The extractor shouldnt clock with the firing pin stop in place. There should be a bevel at the bottom of the claw. It shouldnt have but the j shaped part of it past the breechface. The easiest way to adjust tension is to remove the firing pin stop and pull it back half way and bend it to your left to add tension. It doesnt take much and bending back and forth on some of them will cause them to never keep their tension so try not to have to do a lot of bending back and forth. |
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Failure to extract is caused by the extractor not mags. Did this only happen with the Blazer or the WWB or both? The extractor shouldnt clock with the firing pin stop in place. There should be a bevel at the bottom of the claw. It shouldnt have but the j shaped part of it past the breechface. The easiest way to adjust tension is to remove the firing pin stop and pull it back half way and bend it to your left to add tension. It doesnt take much and bending back and forth on some of them will cause them to never keep their tension so try not to have to do a lot of bending back and forth. This. You can find a sticky on how to adjust it. Took me about 10 minutes and the RIA runs like a clock now. Here you go: http://www.m1911.org/technic2.htm |