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Finally read the FAQs

Finally read the FAQs (3/11)

  1. Has anyone already worked out a method for doing this? I like the sight picture on a full-size 1911, and I want to duplicate the amount of white I see on a gun with a different sight radius. I can measure the FS and rear notch widths, but I'm not sure how to translate this into a "constant" number for the width of the line of white I perceive on either side of the FS. I need to figure out what sized FS & rear notch would duplicate the line of white on a gun with a different sight radius. I suppose I need to figure what the difference would be.
  2. OK I'm getting the hang of this. Wish the MANUAL told the secret... The BASE holds the information about all NETWORKS. First you access the BASE and from its control panel you can make modifcations to the NETWORK which you might have created there or might have created from the Mac's drop-down Airport menu or from the Airport Setup Utility. I had named the BASE with the name I wanted for the NETWORK and thus was using the wrong password to get into the BASE. I don't recall the Airport Setup Utility asking me to name BOTH the base and the network. *** I know my Network is "closed" because it doesn't appear in the Airport drop-down menu. However, in the Admin utility, the "create closed network" box is NOT checked. Confused. But WEP Encryption is ON, so at least my data stream is safe.
  3. And another strange thing. I just noticed my system clock is 3 hours slow. Showing CA time but I'm east coast. Might have happened last night, I zapped the PRAM to try to clear any network parameters in the Mac. But when I went to Date&Time and selected "set time automatically" using the Apple Americas server, the time only changed by a few seconds. Even though my Time Zone was correctly set. I re-set it just for good measure, and had the same result. Finally I manually changed it by 3 hours & corrected the Date. I wonder if the Apple time server is handing out west coast time in a way that the machines Time Zone setting can't handle?
  4. I just tried to double check that I have WEP Encryption ON, and find that I am still having the same mysterious trouble I had last night-- when I use Airport Admin Utility, it sees my Network but when I select it and type in the password, it says it cannot read the configuration file. However, a few hours ago I WAS able to get into the control panel for the Network and the Base. Is this a DHCP problem? Do I need to Renew the DHCP Lease? What's the acronym stand for, anyway? I downloaded Apples "Designing Airport Networks" file but no help there.
  5. Thanks George. I spent some hours resetting & poking around and I'm back wireless. Still haven't figured out why I was getting negative results when SCANing for the base, but eventually it found it again. I discovered that to connect to the net I have to leave ISDN "on" within WAN privacy. Its annoying that the Private Network name doesn't appear on the Airport menu even after you have joined it. And I can't figure out how to UNDO the "make private" option. The manual is deficient because it doesn't explain that the NETWORK and the BASE STATION are two different logical things, and you have to access each one seperately. I don't really have a network, just using the Base for wireless access to the Net from one machine, which I guess would be using it as a Bridge, not a Router. Now I'm concerned about broadcasting my password in the clear between the Mac and the Base. Turning the WEP Encryption ON should care of that. I tried turning SSL ON within Eudora, but can't get IP access. Don't all IPs use SSL as a standard item nowadays? Or is it the interaction with the Airport encryption?
  6. I can't find those two things in the Airport Admin Utility app. Where are their controls? Using it for a wireless connection to my IP with a single computer so I can work off of the wire. While looking for those items, I just enabled WAN privacy and created a closed network. *** I'm back on the wire using the internal modem now. After I made those changes, it shows that I was connected to the internet BUT I cannot "get to it." AirPort Admin Utility won't let me get back into the base station control panels. Aftern entering the password I tried doing the "soft reset" described on pp 22-23 of the manual, but it cannot even locate the base station; I re-scan but it finds nothing, even though the base station is sitting 5 feet away blinking at me. WTF ????? *** The main menu Airport icon "Other" gets me to a dialog box asking for me to enter the name of the network (without showing any choices, which matches with the private setting I made) BUT its not accepting the password. Nor is is accepting the Apple default password. How the heck do I clear this stupid machine and start over?
  7. And if so, is there a proper way to set up the numbers. IIRC the range for each of the four numbers is 0-256.
  8. How do I try to get the following added to the "official" canon of stages. It wouldn't require any new target layouts, because it just makes the order of engagement random: Random Target Order: 6 targets in whatever layout is desired. There is a big colored piece of posterboard etc leaning against the post of each target, knee high (so the shooter needs to look away from the steel to identify the target, and has to really get off the sights). red,white,blue,green,yellow, brown (for color blind people, the first letter can also be stenciled). Make up index cards with each possible order of 4 target colors. Shuffle the cards and pick 4 cards (for 4 runs; 3 for 3 etc). Before each shooter begins, shuffle just those 4 cards so each shooter has a random sequence, so they can't get any information from watching previous shooters. When pressing the start timer, the engagement sequence by color is spoken to the shooter. At any time he can say "target order?" and have them repeated.
  9. This gun retails for over $900, it shouldn't need a damn thing done to it. These are tool marks with a regular pattern; there's no way cleaning could have done this. Cleaning would leave axial scratches, not a regularly spaced threaded pattern all the way down.
  10. What's a permission repair & why do I need to do it?
  11. This is my friend's first fun gun, so I'm hoping to get solutions lined up before I tell him about the problems. Don't want him getting bummed out. I think the bottom line is that the store sold a gun that was assembled in a way that masked its true condition. Not relevent who cut the strut too short. I think I'll ask the store to install an ILS housing and see if the trigger works properly with the short mainspring. The trigger _is_ very nice with the short spring not held captive. But it just seems like a bozo way to do the job.
  12. Figured out the ILS type mainspring was in it. I've put in a normal spring and now I think the guy compensated for not having a mainspring cap pin (and thus sticking out too far) by shortening the hammer strut. Unless it cam from the factor that was, but that would be hard to believe because its so crappy. It doesn't touch the spring at all when decocked. See other thread "purpose for cutting mainspring." Now the trigger pull is shit, it wobbles when decocked, and I can't get it onto the half cock notch No barrel should have chatter marks like this. Just plain lack of quality control, not to mention no way to get it clean. BTW this is the "Loaded" model.
  13. zip tie works!!! once I got it jammed under, it was strong enough to yank really hard right beside the pin so I didn't bend the lever. This is also going to replace the loop of string for disassembling a Ruger Mark II. Whoever assembled this decided to use a hammer instead of stoning the pieces to fit. Once I got it apart, the tenon does not fit into the slot more than 1/16 inch, and I can see the burrs on both pieces where they were jammed together. A little filing and now the have a snug slip fit with no wobble. Does a SA 1911 A1 "Loaded" come with ambi safety? Need to know if I should blame the factory or the bozo previous owner. See also the short mainspring thread for his further adventures...
  14. SInc says the ILS mainspring IS much shorter than the "standard" mainspring. So this guy didn't know any better. And since the ILS housing doesn't have a mainspring cap retaining pin, he has apparently shortened the hammer strut in order to get enough movement. Now that I have the correct spring pinned in place, the hammer wobbles when decocked, has a lousy trigger release, and I cannot get it onto half-cock. Does this sound like a too-short strut or not? When I take out the beavertail, I can observe that the strut does not touch the mainspring cap at all when the trigger is decocked, and I believe it ought to touch & have just a little tension, right?
  15. Gun has standard mainspring housing, not the lock.
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