JohnHL
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A few days back forum member perfectcircle1 (piston rings?) asked if 3rd gen grips will fit 2nd gen pistols, specifically compacts.
I didn't have a 469/669 for testing purposes but I did have a 2nd gen compact backstrap and it did sort of fit on my 6906.
As did a 659 backstrap on a 5906.
Now I was intrigued.
So I pulled out the workhorse franken 659 and tried to force on an old set of curved backstrap 5906 grips.
Nope. They wouldn't quite go. But they were close.
I commenced to whittling and filing with hand tools but the delrin material was just too tough. In my frustration I realized it was time to break out "The Devil's Paintbrush" (No, not Hiram Maxim's machine gun.
Albert Dremel's rotary tool.)
While I know more good works have been undone by a cutting bit chucked up in a Dremel tool in the hands of a well meaning "craftsman" than by all the lead spit from all the Maxim barrels that ever saw action, I knew I had to give it a try.
After about an hour of cutting and fitting I had my result.
Seems like it would work on the compacts, also.
John
I didn't have a 469/669 for testing purposes but I did have a 2nd gen compact backstrap and it did sort of fit on my 6906.
As did a 659 backstrap on a 5906.
Now I was intrigued.
So I pulled out the workhorse franken 659 and tried to force on an old set of curved backstrap 5906 grips.
Nope. They wouldn't quite go. But they were close.
I commenced to whittling and filing with hand tools but the delrin material was just too tough. In my frustration I realized it was time to break out "The Devil's Paintbrush" (No, not Hiram Maxim's machine gun.
Albert Dremel's rotary tool.)
While I know more good works have been undone by a cutting bit chucked up in a Dremel tool in the hands of a well meaning "craftsman" than by all the lead spit from all the Maxim barrels that ever saw action, I knew I had to give it a try.
After about an hour of cutting and fitting I had my result.
Seems like it would work on the compacts, also.
John
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