CJB
06-07-2011, 08:43 PM
Got my PM45 back today.
They replaced everything but the barrel, slide stop and one magazine. They listed "Excessive wear. Replaced frame, slide, test fired, good."
When they say "frame" I think it means the whole lower end, as the trigger is new, and the cam appears new. The slide stop spring is TIGHT so it must have been part of the frame assembly. Can't say about the trigger bar and such.
When they say "slide" it appears to be the entire slide assembly. New sights, new rear plate, new striker and striker block, new extractor. Everything appears new. The barrel is obviously the one I sent - as the wear marks match those in pictures I took. The recoil spring and guide is new.
So thats all good. There is one little problem with the screw on the sideplate, its sticking out a little, at an angle. The other one may have been too, I really didn't look at it all that much.
Serial number exactly 400 in the future from the previous one, a curious thing....
Also curious is the recoil spring guide which does NOT whack the slide with the flat of its button. It goes in perfectly straight. This may have been part of the problem from the get go? Dunno.
I had concerns with the fit of the barrel to the slide. In my own mind, I imagined them fitting barrels to slides during assembly - as you could clearly see the light file marks on the end of the hood. No worries! The new slide/barrel fit is TIGHT, as tight as I'd want one of my 1911's fit, but I never really get them that tight. I like that.
Trigger is noticeably smoother then the previous, but the trigger itself is totally 100 percent square at the front. Ouch. The other was more rounded at the front, with the corners beveled a bit. At some point I can correct that, and planned on correcting the other one as well. No biggie just an observation.
And, the new frame is wider by a bit. At least at the slide stop it is. The slide stop just barely sticks out from the frame. Its flush on the lever side, and on the right side the amount of protrusion is roughly the same as the thickness of the metal in the magazine. The older one stuck out a bunch more. A bunch more... like twice the amount or (probably more). The frame molding seems even on both sides of the frame at the slide stop, whereas on the older frame there was considerable waviness in the frame at the slide stop. Refined molding? Perhaps.
Not had a chance to shoot it yet. So... range report will be Saturday some time.
I want to try the Sig P220 8 shot magazine base, see how that works out. Pics on that tomorrow, too late to get into it tonite.
So... thumbs up! Yay Kahr for coming thru with some good support.
They replaced everything but the barrel, slide stop and one magazine. They listed "Excessive wear. Replaced frame, slide, test fired, good."
When they say "frame" I think it means the whole lower end, as the trigger is new, and the cam appears new. The slide stop spring is TIGHT so it must have been part of the frame assembly. Can't say about the trigger bar and such.
When they say "slide" it appears to be the entire slide assembly. New sights, new rear plate, new striker and striker block, new extractor. Everything appears new. The barrel is obviously the one I sent - as the wear marks match those in pictures I took. The recoil spring and guide is new.
So thats all good. There is one little problem with the screw on the sideplate, its sticking out a little, at an angle. The other one may have been too, I really didn't look at it all that much.
Serial number exactly 400 in the future from the previous one, a curious thing....
Also curious is the recoil spring guide which does NOT whack the slide with the flat of its button. It goes in perfectly straight. This may have been part of the problem from the get go? Dunno.
I had concerns with the fit of the barrel to the slide. In my own mind, I imagined them fitting barrels to slides during assembly - as you could clearly see the light file marks on the end of the hood. No worries! The new slide/barrel fit is TIGHT, as tight as I'd want one of my 1911's fit, but I never really get them that tight. I like that.
Trigger is noticeably smoother then the previous, but the trigger itself is totally 100 percent square at the front. Ouch. The other was more rounded at the front, with the corners beveled a bit. At some point I can correct that, and planned on correcting the other one as well. No biggie just an observation.
And, the new frame is wider by a bit. At least at the slide stop it is. The slide stop just barely sticks out from the frame. Its flush on the lever side, and on the right side the amount of protrusion is roughly the same as the thickness of the metal in the magazine. The older one stuck out a bunch more. A bunch more... like twice the amount or (probably more). The frame molding seems even on both sides of the frame at the slide stop, whereas on the older frame there was considerable waviness in the frame at the slide stop. Refined molding? Perhaps.
Not had a chance to shoot it yet. So... range report will be Saturday some time.
I want to try the Sig P220 8 shot magazine base, see how that works out. Pics on that tomorrow, too late to get into it tonite.
So... thumbs up! Yay Kahr for coming thru with some good support.