Ken's Drop-In Trigger Job
Howdy again Raidr,
Here's the link. My bad...It was Ken's Drop-In Trigger GROUP...
not Job.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86150
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In the beginning, the 1911 wasn't a drop-in/slap together undertaking.
When the rush for production came during the build-up and later the production rush for WW2, the Army Ordnance Department determined that the pistol could be reliable with much looser tolerances, and opened things up a bit so that they could be assembled by the average Joe with minimal training...hence the drop-in part was born, and it's still with us.
Current production 1911s and clones aren't built, but rather assembled
by people who were bagging groceries last month down at the Piggly-Wiggly via the "Selesct-Fit" method. This entails trying a part and doing a cursory check for function and passing it to the next station for the next part or sub-assembly. If a given part isn't right, another is selected until one is found that works....then there's always the tray of over and undersized parts in case none of the standard parts do...and this is why two identical Colts or Kimbers or Springfields that are assembled on the same day vary so widely. The final quality/fit/finish/function depends on
how determined and or patient and/or concientious that each assembler is
in finding the closest thing to "right" that he or she can. Hung over Monday or Vacation Begins Friday Afternoon can and does result in some
shoddy work in any manufacturing operation.
I've had the opportunity to talk with a man whose grandfather worked for Colt during the pre-war and the wartime production. He said that one of the old gent's gripes was that: "They just slapped them together instead of putting them together the right way!" Slap-dash assembly worked well enough...and it's still in practice. High-end custom shop guns and semi-customs...such as the Springfield Pro... are pretty much done differently
than the "Entry-Level models...and the cost reflects it.
Luck to ya!
Tuner