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Briley Bushings, one of the features of those wonderful pieces crafted by the Performance Center. Back when 'crafted by the Performance Center' actually meant something:rolleyes: ahh but I digress... I've had a couple pieces come across the healing bench recently with some pretty severe...

So this pistol had been on the healing bench before. It's the very same 1066 that was in this thread... http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-semi-auto-pistols/598668-m1066-spa-treatment-some-teachable-stuff.html Anyway she came back for some serious cosmetic adjustements. And, it's all...

Ahoy there Gents, Been a long time eh? Yeah yeah I know, Been pretty darned busy of late. Anyhow this came my way and I thought to share the fix... Story begins with the owner asking me about sticking a factory TSW rail on a 4506. Well sez I... "that TSW rail is a aluminum piece of rubbish...

Good Evening Gents, So I got this job in the other day and among the task list was fitting a Bar-Sto 357SIG barrel to the fellow's 40RECON. Seems a lot of old stock Bar-Sto and Briley tubes have been popping up here and there of late so I had a mind to share this repair so you Gents have a...

Ahoy there Gents... I have this fellows 5906 here and among other things to do he was pretty insistent on adding forward slide serrations. Not a problem says I but... I haven't done this operation before and a mistake here is quite difficult to un-do. So, I took a good deal of time to crunch...

...When installing the grip. New sideplates are not exactly a dime a dozen these days and I would not expect the supply status to improve greatly. So, I thought this might be useful in order to help folks avoid breaking their guns. Yeah, we want to avoid this... That sideplate is off a 4516...

Afternoon Gents, Taking a little break from the 5906 project to tend to a couple other jobs... Got this one in todays mail and thought to share with permission from the owner. First a bit of data on extractor pins... These are hardened 5/64 dowel pins of sorts, for the big guns ie 45/10mm the...

Ahoy there Shipmates, For quite a while now I've been looking to add a 5906 to my personal collection. But not just any 5906. There was a certain combination of features I was after that together seem to be not particularly common. Specifically, I wanted the Novak low mount backsight and a...

Ahoy there Gents, I've had this M1006 here for a while. It's been sitting on the shelf while we waited for the new sight set to come in which by chance was delivered yesterday. Seems Trijicon's canned delivery time for out of stock sight sets is 4-6 weeks so I'm pleasantly surprised when...

Ahoy there shipmates, I have a couple pistols on the healing bench sent by two of our members for post purchase inspection & service. One is a M745 and the other a M1006. Upon examination, both guns had some problems with the extractor, or more to the point, someone was mucking about with the...

Ahoy there Gents, Just wrapped up this job last night and thought I'd share a couple things that might be of benefit. This was a newly acquired M1066 and M1026 belonging to one of our members. In brief both guns got new sights fitted, and a couple parts replaced. '66 needed some repairs and...

Greetings Gents, I'm on the lookout for a M4526 product code 103774. That would be the version with the 1st trigger guard (long & square) 1991 production. Looking for a shooter here so box & papers not terribly important. Thanks. Cheers Bill

Hiya Gents, I've been using this old buggered up double stack sideplate as a slave pin for assembling lockwork for quite a while now. Being somewhat of a tool junkie I've been looking for a replacement of sorts that is, well, more tool like, rather than a repurposed junk part. Well, in my...

Or alternately, we could title this.... YOU THERE, WITH THE HAMMER STOP! , Drop that hammer and step away from the gun;) This story begins with a well meaning gentleman down here in my neck of the woods, attempting to remove the magazine disconnect feature from his new acquired and...

Afternoon Gents, I have this 1951 vintage Pre M27 (shooter grade) on the healing bench. The complaint was Cylinder binding on the forcing cone so I suspected a bent ejector rod or sprung yoke or perhaps both were at fault. When the revolver got here, sure enough I found about .015" runout in...

Hmmm....? Well, how about two of 'em:cool: My Postman brought me the #71 gun today. I imagine these two could have both been built the same day being only 31 digits apart. I sure am liking these transitional guns...Going to be on the lookout for a 4566 now :eek: Might have to start...

Ahoy there Gents, I'm typically found over in the Semi-Auto forum but I have some revolver work on the bench of late and this particular one has an interesting back story. So, this gun was stolen some 7+ years ago and recently recovered a couple states away on an unrelated LE action. The...

Hiya Gents, I alluded to some of this in my other thread re: replacing the trigger play spring. Here's the rest of the story... My letter carrier deliver this M1006 to me the other day. I was told it was wildly inaccurate and had a broken play spring. I was asked to go through it in...

Howdy Gents... Well now, I've got this big10 on the healing bench for a checkup and one of the known issues...the trigger play spring is kaput! The trigger play spring is that little copper colored thingy riveted to the forward end of your drawbar. Now that thingy is not actually copper but...

I've read with some interest 18DAI's several threads & commentaries praising the diminutive CS9 so I thought to myself... Self? 'maybe you need to get hold of one of those some day'. Well, I've been heavily invested in .45ACP for many decades and like the keep the number of differing...