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Recusant said:
Please be careful. You know that those pre1945 slides were not really heat treated. With surplus guns you never know how many rounds have gone through it. Those old slides do get brittle and crack.
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Not a problem with mine. The original 1924 slide and welded-up barrel (see above) are now nothing more than a 2-pound paperweight/conversation piece/possible impact weapon. The Ciener .22 conversion has been very reliable over thousands of rounds, and I expect it will be over thousands more. ;) (y)
 
Snake45 said:
Not a problem with mine. The original 1924 slide and welded-up barrel (see above) are now nothing more than a 2-pound paperweight/conversation piece/possible impact weapon. The Ciener .22 conversion has been very reliable over thousands of rounds, and I expect it will be over thousands more. ;) (y)
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And here it is--found it and had time to take a couple pics. For some reason I don't think this is the original 1924 slide, but it's what came on the thing. Looks like it was welded at the hammer in the rear. After I ground that away, I was able to grind the slide down to open up the slide stop, and then removed that and then the whole top came right off.

Oh yah, this slide had gotten some "heat treatment," all right. ;) :LOL:

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Recusant said:
Snake45, I'd rather see a dozen worn and beat up 1911's than what's happened to that one. Shame to do that to an old war horse. Thanks for posting.
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I HOPE you're talking about the welded-up slide and not the fact that I turned what was still usable into a shootable .22LR, right?

I HAVE an older .45 top end for it. Bought it off eBay but when I got it, it turns out to have been refinished/reblued and I didn't like it that much, and I have other .45s to shoot, so I did the .22LR thing. At least the tiny, hard-to-see sights were right on the money, and it's pretty accurate for a stone-stock GI 1911A1 (25 yards).

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Oh, in the same deal, I also got a 1966 LW Commander I was also able to bring back from the dead. Genuine Colt Commander slides aren't as easy to find, so I settled for a Colt Combat Commander slide. Here's what it looked like right after I re-animated it. I later put on better sights, and a 1911A1 grip safety modified for the Commander hammer.

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Oh no, I was referencing the weld job before you got it. If the frame still works then a new top end was the way to go. I also like what you did on the Commander. But that's the fun of gun collecting especially when you can see something where others see nothing. This Beretta M1 receiver made for Denmark in the early 50's is the only part I started out with. It took me almost 5 years to purchase all the correct BP marked small parts to complete it. Could never find a decent BP marked barrel so I used a Danish made VAR barrel which the Danes used as replacements. The problem with these projects is you seldom end up with something you can come out ahead on if you sell it. I could never put a price on this that would cover the aggravation factor and time it took to finish it.
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Beretta M1's are really Winchesters since the gov't sold Beretta all of Winchester's machinery in or around 1950. Beretta produced M1's for new NATO members and several other countries around the world. As far as tractor M1's go, I sold the several I had, but still have an early LMR barrel that's waiting for a late war Springfield receiver. I guess I'll never see the light!
 
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