1911 stripped screw work

[Duc]

Figure I would show some pictures of removing a stripped screw removal from a BUL armory Ultra 3.25" 1911 slide for a coworker.

Awesome fixture I got when we closed Para USA down in Charlotte NC. This was going in the the trash so I asked if I could keep it. No telling how many slides were machined on this thing. All harden tool steel. I really need to clean it.

Drilling the top of the bolt head off to remove the sight. Would be alot easier to align in a bridgeport versus a Fadal 4020

I couldnt get a good grip on the screw so I drilled thru the middle to try to remove the pressure.

Not bad alignment for bending into the mill and hoping I centered the sucker

Glued a gauge pin inside the hole to help with removal. Screw came out easy when I gripped the screw body and the pin at same time with vice gripes.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Very cool

 

[Stingray]

Nice work.

 

[Steve300xcw]

So that jig just grabs the rails and pulls down on them?

 

[Duc]

So that jig just grabs the rails and pulls down on them?

Yep along with some centering from the domes I believe. I need to take apart for a cleaning one day to see if the domes are on springs. The pull down sections has no slop at all. Probably surface ground to a .0001 fit based on what I heard about the original owner Ted.

 

[FrankenToy]

A feat accomplished by most skilled craftsmen incorporating the correct tooling. Wanna impress us? Do it with a 3/8" Black and Decker hand drill using burned out Harbor Freight bits with the slide handi-clamped sideways onto the kitchen table. That's where the money is at...

I wish I had a mill...

 

[Stix]

Wait

Figure I would show some pictures of removing a stripped screw removal from a BUL armory Ultra 3.25" 1911 slide for a coworker.

Awesome fixture I got when we closed Para USA down in Charlotte NC. This was going in the the trash so I asked if I could keep it. No telling how many slides were machined on this thing. All harden tool steel. I really need to clean it.

Drilling the top of the bolt head off to remove the sight. Would be alot easier to align in a bridgeport versus a Fadal 4020

I couldnt get a good grip on the screw so I drilled thru the middle to try to remove the pressure.

Not bad alignment for bending into the mill and hoping I centered the sucker

Glued a gauge pin inside the hole to help with removal. Screw came out easy when I gripped the screw body and the pin at same time with vice gripes

You worked for Para Ordnance? Why was my Super Hawg such a piece of shit?

 

[Duc]

Wait

You worked for Para Ordnance? Why was my Super Hawg such a piece of shit?

Before my time there I was the process engineer from 2012 till the plant was shut down.

 

[78bronco460]

I have a couple of the early paras. My favorite is the P13 with a EGW tactical package done by George in the 90’s. It’s 13 rounds of joy.