Hopefully someone might be able to help me?

I recently purchased a S&W1911SC E, and love the look and feel of it, but after shooting only 150 rounds through it (without any feed issues/hick ups), I have come across a potential issue during cleaning.

A piece dialoged off of the left rear slide during cleaning. I am not sure if it is supposed to be held in by a peg or something? Should it just be lock tight'ed, or should it stay floating? See image 1a, and 3a, below.

I am glad I caught this before I put the slide back on without it!

I am really hoping that there is nothing wrong here, and that it is supposed to be loose.

The piece is the ejector. The hole in the frame is for a pin that holds the ejector in place. Your pin is missing. The ejector is supposed to be immobile, and the ejector pin is driven out of the frame to allow the ejector to be removed, which isn't done for normal maintainence or cleaning. You can see a little divot in the front 'leg' of the ejector that the pin would interface with to hold the ejector in place.

Call S&W Monday.

Thanks for the reply, Buff.

That is what I was afraid of. I don't recall if it was shipped that way, or if the pin fell out during my first cleaning session or not.

Either way, I am not very happy about this, seeing that I just reloaded several hundred 45's and would love to get them to the range.

See my post in the 1911 forum

Bob

Its a pretty tight roll pin, I doubt it fell out. My guess is that it wasn't installed at the factory and they probably used a drop of locktight to suppliment the pin. Either way it is an easy fix.

There was a recent thread about a plunger tube flying off one of these guns. What's going on in the 1911 department at S&W?

I called, and described the part to the rep. and he said he would ship one out. In my thoroughness, I directed him to the image that I supplied here on the forums, just to make sure. Turns out, he was about to send me the wrong part, and the image cleared things up!

I should be shipped the correct part, but it is going to take over a week!!! Grrr. Should I have made more of a fuss and demanded some free shwag?

Like i said, go to your local hardware store give the guy a quarter and you will go home with enough roll pins to keep you for quite some time.

Bob