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This old thread shows a lot of people have the dovetail cutter. I posted on classified but have not gotten any response so I'm just putting it out here if it's ok by the mod. If anyone used the .375x60 cutter to cut a slide and wants to get rid of it. I'd like to take it from you.
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Hi Guys, Need some help. Want to cut my old SV for a racker. It's already enough of a challenge as the rear is flat topped and there is not much meat between the breach face and where the flat topping starts. Ordinarily that would still be fine but this is an IBF slide so part of that meat in there is the IBF and IBF screw... d'oh... On the plus side is the flat top is not as deep as some and I may in fact still have enough meat to cut the dovetail in the flat top. Anyway I digress. The real issue is this: I purchased a brazos zigracker to use for this gun. this one: http://www.1911store.com/slide-racker-bcg-zigracker-1.aspx Now as best I knew it uses a 'normal' GI/bomar type dovetail (360 X 60) but stop short of cutting right through the slide. So I ordered up my expensive cutter from brownells and it's on the way. So last night I thought I'll pull out ye olde instructions and have a gander... well strike me lucky. the instructions call for a 375 X 60 (aka 3/8 X 60) dovetail cutter.!?! WTH? I was a bit surprised so I pulled out the racker itself. At it's widest point it measures about .355... ok. For comparison I whipped out another racker I have lying around (shooters connection/EGW sidewinder XL which I KNOW is for a 360X60 dovetail) and it measures the same (it has been slightly filed to fit a tight dovetail on a tanfoglio). So the questions are these: Has anyone here fitted a brazos zigracker and can share their experience? What cutter did you use etc? If I do need to cut a 375 X 60 dovetail my feeling is I could do one pass with the 360, then move 0.015 over and do another pass thus giving me my 0.375 cut. Is that idea sound? Given the brazos seems to be the same size as my sidewinder does it seem more likely that it needs the GI/bomar 360X60 dovetail and that the instructions are wrong (perhaps out of date?). Any other tips on dealing with a slide that only has small real estate behind the breach would be great. Finally, I obviously don't want to cut anywhere near the IBF screw, but what about if part of the dovetail is in the back of the IBF itself? I can't see that being a problem? Thanks guys. This one has got me knackered! for reference this is what the IBF looks like: you can see it goes a little way into the slide.
