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Old 09-04-2022, 10:28 PM
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Is the 457 guide rod steel or plastic? Was it always a nested spring setup?
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Mine has a steel guide rod. The guide rod plunger is plastic. The mag release is plastic and is to be replaced when disassembled. Sights were plastic. Mine is two-tone. Blue upper, silver frame.
Mine has the nested spring setup. I believe it is called a 4th Revision with the nested springs. Prior versions were single spring.

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Mine is metal and nested.

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I've had four 457s at garlic various times. All have had nested springs, metal guide rods with plastic tips. They all also had cheap plastic sights and other cost saving parts.

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Believe 457 was always nested - it came out in 1996(?) and the other smaller 45s - 4516-2 and 4513TSW (and later 4013) were all the same nested spring setup as early as 1993 I believe.
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Metal guide rod and dual nested springs on mine as well.
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Perfect. Thanks!
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Was it always a nested spring setup?
Apparently Yes, the parts catalog only shows the dual/nested recoil as a part for it unlike the 4516 which shows the single & dual spring setups.

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Old 09-09-2022, 02:35 PM
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Midway has the 457 guide rod in stock. It is about 1/8" longer than needed, but it works fine in the 4013 single stack frame. Everywhere has been out of stock of the 4013 guide rod. A little dremel/angle grinder work and some blueing will fix it right up.

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