Gene_WI Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 How Folks After 10.5 month of waiting my Infinity is finally here. All stainless 5.4" IPSC legal sight tracker in .40. Certainly the finest pistol I have ever handled, exactly what I wanted. But I have one minor dilemma with it. I got the pistol built to be IPSC legal, since shooting some matches in Europe is a long term ambition of mine. In order to fit in the IPSC box, SVI shaves the back of the magwell. The cut that they make looks amazing, but it leaves two somewhat sharp spikes on the back of the grip. Here are the great looking, but sharp spikes in all their glory. I don't think they are an issue for shooting, but I can totally see cutting myself on these sometime. I am thinking of filing them a tad... To those that have SVI pistols built to IPSC specs like this one, what have you done? How does it look? Thank you -Gene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I never even noticed mine. I do have to say you have good tastes. Our guns look identical! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_WI Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Twins. It's a great look, classic lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 A week or two of dryfire will loosen the ambi safety and toughen up the hands! Mine took 14 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltdmstr Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) Someone who's handy with a file can round off those corners and polish to match the rest in probably 5-10 minutes . If that's stainless, which it appears to be, it'll look like it came that way from the factory. If you're not comfortable doing it, or don't know someone who is, you can probably send just the magwell back to SV and have them do it for you. Edited March 2, 2020 by ltdmstr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkadi Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) @MikeyScuba @Gene_WI could you please post an up-close photo of slide stop (installed)? Does it have a dimple drilled for the plunger? SVI slide stop have a slope cut where plunger rests comfortably preventing it from bumping up. Yet it makes the lever not parallel to lower line of frame cut-out. From the picture you posted it looks like I just described. I wonder if that's how it is intended. I have a custom gun built with SVI small parts. Not sure - should I leave it as is unmodified, or should I drill it, but then I'd need to file it too to not contact the slide. Did you asked for specific functionality to be able to remove slide stop without bringing slide back to disassembly notch? (Useful if gun is locked up hard) Edited March 2, 2020 by arkadi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkadi Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 @ltdmstr, JFYI, the magwell could be a plain steel one . I asked SVI for steel magwell twice, not stainless, yet I got both of them shiny and pretty like on the MikeyScuba photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I'll post a pic when I get home, I replaced mine with a nitro fin. 6 hours ago, arkadi said: @MikeyScuba @Gene_WI Did you asked for specific functionality to be able to remove slide stop without bring slide back to disassembly notch? (Useful if gun is locked up hard) No. I didn't know I even asked for the accessory rail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_WI Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 10 hours ago, arkadi said: @MikeyScuba @Gene_WI could you please post an up-close photo of slide stop (installed)? Does it have a dimple drilled for the plunger? SVI slide stop have a slope cut where plunger rests comfortably preventing it from bumping up. Yet it makes the lever not parallel to lower line of frame cut-out. From the picture you posted it looks like I just described. I wonder if that's how it is intended. I have a custom gun built with SVI small parts. Not sure - should I leave it as is unmodified, or should I drill it, but then I'd need to file it too to not contact the slide. Did you asked for specific functionality to be able to remove slide stop without bringing slide back to disassembly notch? (Useful if gun is locked up hard) Hi Arkadi I will take some pictures for you next weekend. I am not aware of the slide stop functionality you are describing, but will check. If it exist it is not something that I explicitly ordered form SVI. -Gene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Pictures aren’t showing up for me, and I’m interested in this topic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_WI Posted March 3, 2020 Author Share Posted March 3, 2020 5 hours ago, Silent said: Pictures aren’t showing up for me, and I’m interested in this topic... What do you see? Red X? This is my first time hosting pics from google drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, Gene_WI said: What do you see? Red X? This is my first time hosting pics from google drive. It’s a white box with random letters across the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenida Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 no photos, I have a 5.4. Post some up and I will take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glockster1 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 I just polished mine down with 555 White aluminum polish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Boit Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 My SV IPSC Standard guns are 5.4 with the same magwell shaved to fit the IPSC box. It's never been an issue , never get cut or never ever feel those two "spikes". Just shoot it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjb45 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 There are some very fine files. However, a stone might be better as it can less aggressive. Followed by an Arkansas stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_WI Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) Sorry for my delay in getting back to everyone. Had to do some last minute scrambling with all of this Beer Flu that going around. All settled in now. Trying a different image server for the pics. Please let me know if you can see them. I did de-horn the spikes very gently with a jewelers file and that helped. Have been dry-firing a ton now that we are indoors, and teh spikes still bug me every once in a while. Edited March 17, 2020 by Gene_WI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_WI Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) On 3/2/2020 at 5:20 AM, arkadi said: @MikeyScuba @Gene_WI could you please post an up-close photo of slide stop (installed)? Does it have a dimple drilled for the plunger? SVI slide stop have a slope cut where plunger rests comfortably preventing it from bumping up. Yet it makes the lever not parallel to lower line of frame cut-out. From the picture you posted it looks like I just described. I wonder if that's how it is intended. I have a custom gun built with SVI small parts. Not sure - should I leave it as is unmodified, or should I drill it, but then I'd need to file it too to not contact the slide. Did you asked for specific functionality to be able to remove slide stop without bringing slide back to disassembly notch? (Useful if gun is locked up hard) here are the pictures for you. Edited March 17, 2020 by Gene_WI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkadi Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Thank you for the photos @Gene_WI. They loads just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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