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Originally Posted by Irod
Numrich offers a slide stop ejector "unfinished". What is the propouse?. Any experience with one of those?, are heat treated?
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That part, the slide stop / ejector, is the weak link in the entire M41 design. Compare a M41 to the Walther Olympia and Hämmerli model 200 lineage and you can see that S&W blatantly copied the design, with a few changes.
The Walther- Hämmerli version uses a separate slide stop and ejector, both machined out of high grade steel. The S&W part is a much inferior design that is also a much inferior stamping.
The Hämmerli 208 is noted as a particularly reliable gun, capable of hundreds of thousands of rounds of accurate trouble-free use.
The problem with the S&W part is that the twin functions are counter to each other. There are also a couple different designs to the S&W part, where the notch for ejecting is in a different location. No doubt this is intended to correct the many failure to eject jams that plague the M41.
Perhaps the "in the white" part is oversized so that a gunsmith can fit it for reliable performance?
I'd like to see a picture of the Numrich part, especially of the ejection notch.
Jim