Who forges their slides and frames - 1911Forum
Smith and Ruger are the major casting/forging players stateside. would that indicate that these manufacturers are getting slides and frames from one of those two players only? so a colt, or baer or wilson is actually a S&W slide/frame? what about caspian? do they forge their own and then supply to the big boys?

Colt M1911A1 with 7790314 marked Colt slide? - 1911Forum
7790314 marked slides were also sold as surplus parts like most surplus items from military. But yours looks like had been with the frame for good amount of time, so I don't think it was parts gun done by civilian. Besides slide, yours also has post-WWII replacement slide stop, grips and barrel from what I can see. Hammer from earlier years as Colt switched to narrow spur hammer during 1944 ...

Properly orienting slides for scanning - Photo.net
Properly orienting slides for scanning By adam_kern October 26, 2004 in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

Few more questions about swapping 1911 frames and slides
In the Kuhnhausen books, there are reprints of the original Colt /US Ord Dept drawings and specs for frames and slides. As long as the manufacturer adheres to the dimensions and 'tolerances' * of the original, there should be few problems.

1911 slides interchangable?? | 1911Forum
Here is my stupid question of the day. 1 of maybe many to follow as my liking of these guns grows. As my search abilities here aren't that far above my gunsmithing know how.:rolleyes: Can I order from Advanced a full size, say 45 acp slide and barrel and literally just use my 45 Tactical...

Which manufacturers utilize forged frames and slides? - 1911Forum
Which manufacturers utilize forged frames and slides? Jump to Latest 3.7K views 34 replies 20 participants last post by Levian Sep 25, 2022 MoparDanno Discussion starter

Builds on 2011 slides/frames from Brownell's - 1911Forum
Builds on 2011 slides/frames from Brownell's 1 reading Jump to Latest 8.9K views 9 replies 5 participants last post by ken_mays Feb 8, 2019

Printing from 35mm slides w/ Ilfochrome - Photo.net
Well you may have seen my posts on here before asking if it is worth going to ilfochrome and I have finally made the decision to try it out. the one remaining question I have is on how large of a print you can make from a 35mm slide. can you reduce grain by going to ilfochrome? I understand the p...

Lightening Slots on Pistol Slides - 1911Forum
Someone mentioned putting lightening slots on the slide of their 1911 Build in one of the FaceBook posts in their 1911 Builders Group. My comment: "However, I'm not too impressed with the lightening slots lots which folks are machining into their slides these days [on all types of pistols, not...

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