AlexanderA
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In another thread, Ed Ames wrote:
I understand that the 4 parts of the Series 80 trigger/firing pin safety interlock can be removed (restoring the gun to GI function), as long as a special spacer shim is added to the frame, preventing the sear from wandering to the right.
That still leaves a hole in the slide where the plunger and spring had been. That may or may not be a problem, but it seems to me to be a place where debris could enter, and potentially gum up the works.
Is there any reason that the removed plunger (with or without its spring) could not be used as a filler for that hole? If you use a GI-type extractor, without the Series 80 notch, it seems that it would lock the plunger in the "up" position so it would not interfere with the firing pin. (You could, at the same time, substitute an unnotched GI firing pin.) Or am I missing something?
The AO "GI" uses a firing pin safety - not GI.
I understand that the 4 parts of the Series 80 trigger/firing pin safety interlock can be removed (restoring the gun to GI function), as long as a special spacer shim is added to the frame, preventing the sear from wandering to the right.
That still leaves a hole in the slide where the plunger and spring had been. That may or may not be a problem, but it seems to me to be a place where debris could enter, and potentially gum up the works.
Is there any reason that the removed plunger (with or without its spring) could not be used as a filler for that hole? If you use a GI-type extractor, without the Series 80 notch, it seems that it would lock the plunger in the "up" position so it would not interfere with the firing pin. (You could, at the same time, substitute an unnotched GI firing pin.) Or am I missing something?