that small extractor is also cheaper to machine than the original design, and the difference I guarantee you is more than .02!
True Spring Steels, like 1075, 1095, 6150, or even 4340 are tough to machine. When heat treated after machining, some distortion occurs and truing will be required. Much better if you can just take Pre-hardened low alloy steel, like 4130 and just cut it and be done.
It's even cheaper yet if you MIM it, but Mim extractors have been notoriously unreliable.
Colt has publically stated they have gone back to barstock. What alloy and how hard I don't know.
It ain't broke and don't need fixing.
True Spring Steels, like 1075, 1095, 6150, or even 4340 are tough to machine. When heat treated after machining, some distortion occurs and truing will be required. Much better if you can just take Pre-hardened low alloy steel, like 4130 and just cut it and be done.
It's even cheaper yet if you MIM it, but Mim extractors have been notoriously unreliable.
Colt has publically stated they have gone back to barstock. What alloy and how hard I don't know.
It ain't broke and don't need fixing.