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Article: Brownells mainspring housing hone. (Gunnysack).
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- American Handgunner
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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This is one of those neat little things that works wonders in an unexpected location. When I first heard of honing the interior surface of a 1911 mainsprin housing, my reaction was, "Who cares?"
One of the golden rules of pistolsmithing is that smooth is good. Rough is bad. But there is also an element of "out of sight, out of mind." I think it's nearly sinful to mess with the mainspring on a 1911 and the only folks who do that routinely probably don't know how to do a proper trigger job, anyway. But this is another, easier, option.
The 1911 mainspring housing actually has moving parts. When the hammer is cocked the hammer spur pushes down on the ...