Had to do a little more adjusting today.
My Postman delivered four white 10mm followers in this afternoon and yup as I suspected would be the case I'll need to give then a bit of a trim.
No way will I see the breech lock open on a empty mag with this. The follower is too fat at the top to fit between the feed lips.
I had a feeling this would be the case from my fiddling with the orange 40 and yellow 10mm followers. You can see here the orange 40 has a milled relief cut up at the top to fit the 40 mags.
That old yellow 10mm follower I have lacked that relief cut and would not lock open on an empty... That is, until I adjusted it some adding that relief cut you see here.
So, I figured if I give those white followers a haircut like I did with the yellow one, all would be well
Off to the milling machine. Same end mill in there I used the other day to cut on the magazines and you can see the area that needs trimming.
I shaved off 0.014" off each side from the top down about .180"
Milling is all done.
One more thing... Judging by eye, filed a 30° bevel about 0.040 high on each side too.
Two mags all set to go and two spare followers.
Range day tomorrow. I have 100 rounds of greenbox remington to burn up. Initial test drive of the "1014' as well as the "1013" top end which is going to my friend in Florida. I have a couple different recoil springs to evaluate but I'm pretty sure at this point which spring I'll wind up going with in the end.
Then I need to spend some time getting some dope on my 6.5 Grendel with the brand new glass
So, next update tomorrow evening.
Cheers
Bill