Excellent first rate post, thanks a million for thinking of us this way. I have done one of these assemblies a few months back. It was a 1903 32acp that was totally stripped of any finish and had a few pits. As it was no one would have given much for it so I took it all apart, polished it and reblued the pistol in its entirety. I didn't notice if it did this before but now it will sometimes not cock. If you pull the trigger and work the slide by hand about one out of three times the hammer will follow down with the slide while you hold in on the trigger. Was it something I did??? I remember it not being the funnest gun to put back together, but it wasn't impossible to figure out either.I am asking because I just found a 1908 380 that is in the same condition I would like to save and would like to know what I should watch out for. Thanks again for this post. The world needs more folks like you.