Chris Keen Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Ok so I got my new (to me) Red SV SingleStack magwell in the mail today, and it's like Christmas morning & I cant find the instructions to put the two pieces together with and I dont want to do it wrong and damage something beautiful so I thought I'd check here 1st to see if there's a gracious soul who could help me out with either a copy of theirs or just step by step instructions would be great! I'm sure Merlin or Zhunter have some kind of idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Take your hammer and ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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grandbagger Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 of course Merlin knows what he's talking about, hes got a bunch of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Are you sure? Merlin made no mention of MAPP gas. (Which reminds me, I gotta get my torch back from Flyin40, who borrowed it for some gunsmithing or something.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Are you sure? Merlin made no mention of MAPP gas.(Which reminds me, I gotta get my torch back from Flyin40, who borrowed it for some gunsmithing or something.) Once I got my wire welder MAPP was out..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Don't you still need a good torch? Slide in the freezer, then heat up the frame rails with a torch...put the two together for a nice tight fit. How do you get tight slide to frame fits with a wire welder? (Oh...that's right...you use the big hammer.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WickedBag Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) Ok so I got my new (to me) Red SV SingleStack magwell in the mail today, and it's like Christmas morning & I cant find the instructions to put the two pieces together with and I dont want to do it wrong and damage something beautiful so I thought I'd check here 1st to see if there's a gracious soul who could help me out with either a copy of theirs or just step by step instructions would be great!I'm sure Merlin or Zhunter have some kind of idea This may be too late, but here goes.... I did a couple of these installs on my SS setups and they all went on a little differently. But, there was one trick that really seemed to work well. First, make sure you have straight shot through with the pin by trying it without the MSH in the frame. This will let you know the two retaining screws are in the right spot. Then, put in the MSH and proceed to insert the pin. I had one that was extremely tight and I was a little unsure about using a BFH on it so I just worked it slowly. If you stop at several points along the way, you can actually take the allen wrench and tweak the two screws a little bit in/out to try to find the sweet spot where there is the least resistance. This means that each retaining screw is centered over the pin at its current point. Then, tap a little bit more and repeat the screw tweaking. This prevents just ramming the pin home when the screws are NOT quite where they should be. Once I started using this technique, they always went in pretty well without scoring the pin. Oh yeah, and here's the link to the online instructions: http://sviguns.com/technical/magwell.html Edited February 5, 2008 by WickedBag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 My first 2 had no problems with installation, they were drop in with no issue!!!! My latest one, a aluminum one was NOT a drop in. The pin that holds the mainspring and magwell together/in-place needed to be reduced in diameter, and it needed to be reduced a lot. The "channel" was much too small. Hope this helps. ZH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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