Help building 2 5906 stripped assemblies

[1775usmarine]

If you're going to buy from everygunpart check the pictures carefully and keep an eye out for the sales.

 

[GaryS]

Thanks. IF I ever see a 915, I'll have to take a serious look at it. Then again, I don't recall ever seeing one for sale anywhere. Oh well.

As to the Value Line guns, with the exception of the CS guns and the 457 I agree with you. I don't know who came up with the 457 or why, but it's perhaps the greatest "bargain" 45ACP gun ever made. It's pretty much a bargain basement 4513TSW without the rail and with a left side only safety.

The CS guns are very good pocket carry guns. At least my CS9S is.

Naaa, don’t get too confused. We have discussed the 915 a -LOT- around these pages (barely ever mention the 411…) so you must have missed all those discussions but I can recap it quickly.

S&W was getting beat up by the heavy wave of Glock success circa 1992 and they figured the MSRP’s on their 3rd Gens were partially to blame.

They wanted to find a way to lower the cost of them and offer guns at a lower price. The plan was for the Value Line and their first attempt, the 915 (and 411!) could be argued both a success and a failure.

Success — they made a ton of the 915 (dunno how many 411’s) and they also had success with foreign contracts and a lot of them were shipped off the continent.

Failure — S&W apparently did not lower their cost as much as they had wanted and these models were produced for only two years.

The Value Line guns that followed were definitely cheapened down quite a bit more than the 915/411.

Some folks like those later Value Line guns, I personally don’t care for them. Their exterior is blocky and to me they look like a Chineeze rip-off copy of a 3rd Gen.

 

[Eminence]

I have some loose parts left over from my S&W police armorer's days. Stainless steel ambi decocking levers and a small number of internal parts if you may be interested; and I'm in Fla. Message me and we can discuss and I can text pics.

 

[Heymatt]

I’d order a spring kit from Wolf to start.

 

[hudson69]

Where do you find a frame though. I'm needing either a 6900 series to go with my complete 6904 slide.

 

[GaryS]

I've gone to a lot of yard sales over the years and the closet to a gun part I've ever come was a very nice Dillon Precision brass hammer!

Where do you find a frame though. I'm needing either a 6900 series to go with my complete 6904 slide.

 

[CALREB]

Jato here is the problem. Sights, recoil rod/springs, slidestop, trigger, hammer spring,spring cup and a minutia of other small parts will work for any 5906/59/etc. Many other parts extractor, sear lever, hammer and on and on, may or may not work if they are used parts. So, you will need to have some bunches of parts to actually put the guns together and get them to function correctly. Hard enough for a trained person, but you may be in for a bit of a struggle especially if you don't have a bunch of parts and some knowledge of how they go together. They are not precision weapons but can give you a headache if you do not know whats going on . Hope you are lucky with them.

 

[Jato15]

UPDATE TO MY Original Post:

I’ve been watching GB like a hawk and found 2 parts kits over the last few weeks. I paid $250 for each, plus $45 for the assemblies. I’m into each one for under $300.
I opted not to use the coated slides because they need wide-hood barrels. The assemblies I bought on GB are narrow-hood. I supposed I could find the correct barrels and swap parts, but that just adds unnecessary cost. For the money, I’m happy with what I have!
Thank you everyone for your help!

Hi everyone, I’m brand new to the forum and to S&W pistols in general. I picked these up at a garage sale yesterday not really knowing what I was getting into. A quick search online found that 5906 parts kits are going to be difficult to find. Over at Sigforum, a member told me that 519 parts will fit and will be easier to source than 5906.
My question now is the rear sights…the cutout is huge. Is this for the large adjustable factory sight?
Any help with this project will be appreciated, as I’m sure it’s been discussed before!

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[Heymatt]

Nicely done!