bountyhunter

Well, I have smithed both my Glocks and my XD tactical and don't remember any parts "prone" to failure. In Glocks, the striker tips sometimes break or chip. As for the XD, I can't think of any parts that impressed me as failure prone. The XD design is a little more complex than a Glock because it has an actual sear and the modern design firing pin blocking safety with raising lever as is found in Browning, CZ, HK, Beretta and most modern designs. XD also has a grip safety that blocks the sear. Glocks have no actual sear so they have a more "simple" design, not necessarily a better one. I prefer the XD because the trigger is far superior to the Glock and can be tricked out pretty easily.

I have not heard that they are any less reliable than the typical production gun. Any specific components he is claiming are prone to fail?

Some guns will extract with no tension, obviously not ideal. I run mine in the 12 - 20 ounce range so 15 is dead on.

My collection theme was get one of everything.

Yes, to all statements you list. It was my understanding that galling occurs at the surface of stainless parts of similar makeup and is sort of an electrolytic exchange were the surface of the parts try to bond and exchange electrons. Problem is, next time you move the pieces it shears off a tiny bit of material at the surface. Eventually, the surfaces get rougher over time. Galling is prevented with special lubes and by using dissimilar stainless types between parts that ride on each other. RIG+p makes a good stainless grease I have used on many guns.

Sounds like where I live which is california. The only reason we don't have an outright gun ban here is because our supreme court affirmed our right to own guns, but they have taken away all our other gun rights. Our "next governor" Gavin newsome is about to ram through a new law requiring confiscation of any and all magazines which exceed ten rounds and will require background checks just to buy ammo which will eliminate most places which presently sell ammo. Can't outlaw the guns then attack the ammo........

Not much, that's about it. The Wolff reduces power ribbed mainspring (with a new strain screw) is about where you can go and still light just about anything. Those will drop you into the 8 - 9# ballpark.

+1 The last new slide stop I bought had a pretty deep groove milled in it for this. It wouldn't even activate until I smoothed it off a little. That's probably the easy way to get it to not pop up when you don't want it to.

A frame is a gun, parts removed or not. Sending it as machine parts is a good way to get in some trouble. +1 And if lost or stolen, the carrier is not going to replace it.

How old is the gun? The stainless steel is softer than carbon, but IMHO it still should not fail like that. As for dry firing, the newer guns with the external firing pins can break those especially the extended ones. I have never seen a SW factory pin break but I think the factory recommends snap caps.

Well, it was fun to watch. The Bengals slept through three and a half quarters of the game and the Seahawks ran up a 24 to 7 point lead....... and proceeded to choke it out as the Bengals put it into overtime by tying it up at 24 all. Then the Seahawks failed to move the ball in OT and the Bengals tried a long field goal........ that banged into the left goalpost upright and then bounced through! Maybe Loudmouth Sherman can hold a press conference and explain why the greatest defense that ever played gave up 27 points. Karma, karma, karma.....

The SW66 is my favorite revolver, an excellent gun but individual pieces may not be. I own about six of them and if you get a good one, you'll love it. I have previously posted why I no longer buy new SW products, but there are some very good older ones out there. And probably some very bad old ones, you have to know how to examine them.

I think Wilson sells 1911's they guarantee to shoot sub 1" groups at 25 yards with best ammo. Main thing on accuracy is quality of barrel and most important, if the barrel locks into the same place with respect to the slide on each cycle. The sights are mounted on the slide so any barrel movement with respect to the slide is a direct error in accuracy. I have read gun tests where they shot tighter groups using a sandbag rest and shooter adjusting aim on each shot than when clamped in a ransom rest. The shooter adjusts for slight variation in slide position with respect to frame on each shot.

Well, whatever but IMHO: In my case, doing dishes is so easy it doesn't require any allocation of my mind to do it because it's automatic. So in that respect, it isn't getting much of my attention at all and I may very well be processing other things at the same time which would make me feel like no time had passed. My point was that regarding: There certainly are difficult things that will be difficult even with 100% of my attention and the difficulty will be independent of what I thought beforehand: In fact, many difficult things fooled me because I believed they would be easy.... forgetting Murphy's Law. So the idea I had beforehand turned out to be wrong.

Depends on the task. There are some tasks for which the "now" approach does not work well (or at all) and you have to constantly adjust to changes to optimize the execution. You have to view the entire sequence at all times and adjust for variances as they arise. If you had limited ammo you might choose at some points to skip very difficult (low percentage) targets and "save" up to make sure you have ammo to execute later high percentage scores. This exact effect happened when I was working at National Semiconductor. The engineering Director decided he could get people to "make schedules" using a simple technique: assign points to each project, if it was on time you got full points. You got half points if it was a month late and ZERO if it was two months or more late, and our annual raises were multiples of these scores He assumed that would somehow get everything on time. What actually happened: when projects slipped and we had no way to recover on them, they basically got ignored and all resources were focused onto the ones that were still viable. My boss got bent when she noticed this and I asked her: "Given the conditions set up, what else would you expect them to do?"

I understand what you are saying but after 33 years as an engineer, I think I can say that this statement is not correct: Some things are very difficult and certainly more difficult than other things by comparison. It may be that some things are not difficult for one person and very difficult for another and I don't think that attention is exclusively the reason. Experience and skill level certainly affect it. "Difficult" is a concept which is 100% subjective and subject to case. The other constraint which elevates difficulty is time and/or resources available for a given task. I have seen many things which could have been simple but were difficult to perform within a given set of boundary conditions (time and or personnell) forced onto the task.

The compensator is supposed to reduce muzzle flip and recoil. How well it actually works is subjective.

I had a Para 1640 that had chronic nose dive type jams and I ended up having to recut the feed ramp to extend the lower "porch" a little bit. It basically depends where the mag body is with respect to the barrel. Sometimes changing the mag catch can raise the mag a bit. BTW: guns that have that problem may "knock" the bullets in a little past the crimp even if they do chamber the round. I hand cycled some rounds in mine and then put calipers on the OAL and found that out.

Brass problem? How easy does it drop in before it's fired? How are you sizing the brass?

My pet peeve in this world....... Msoft is obsessed about dumping "updates" into your PC whether you want them or not. In my old emachine, it actually locked up my computer midstream after I turned it off and it was busy dumping in a dozen "updates".... then my computer would not restart and I had to haul it into a repair shop to get it fixed. Some kind of "bus conflict" so $100 later, I had my computer back. Thanks a lot........

Never had a TIVO for a couple of reasons: I don't have cable (receive off antenna) and the TIVO prices were always way too high..... TIVO finally heard me and has a product for cheapskates who use an antenna. The Roamio OTA is only $50 for the box and $14.99/month and it gives you a total of FOUR tuners in the box so you can record up to four shows at once. So far I am liking it. Easy to use and record shows. If you plan on cutting the cable and going OTA, this is the product for you.

Gravity always wins.........

That's the point I was making earlier. It doesn't mean a cast part can't be servicable, but forged is stronger for a given formula of steel and heat process.

Another reason I no longer use aftermarket springs. Just do a mandrel bend on the stock spring to SLIGHTLY increase the arch and it will reduce the power slightly. And if you go too far, you can bend it back.

In the case of the internal piece parts: I think forged for sure. Some frames are cast and still pretty good. Bottom line is that forged steel is a lot more dense than cast and has better strength. If I recall correctly, cast parts are about 60% as dense as forged (?). MIM parts are around 90 - 95% as dense as forged so they are definitely better than cast.