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Old 03-14-2017, 07:36 PM
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My .02 cents;
The breakage of the long M52 and M52-1 extractors as said above is over blown.
Been shooting an M52-1 for Bullseye for a few years and also have a "new old stock" extractor for a backup.
Have not needed it; yet after thousands of rounds.
My take is that you never remove it from the slide.
There is no reason to, even for cleaning.
If you are anal, then spray it down with some light oil and blow it out with high pressure shop air; but do not remove it.
Remember taking a spoon or fork and bending it in the same place back and forth, after 4 or 5 bends, it breaks.
Same as the long extractor.
What it requires to remove it and reinstall it goes through the same motions.
As an aside;
Toss the bushing wrench, finger tight only and back off to the last locking notch.(new bushings are harder to find then a long extractors).
YMMV
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