Airsoft Canada - View Single Post - We 1911 slide completely locks up and is very hard to move.

XOIIO · January 9th, 2017, 07:14

I don't want to take apart the hop up unit much more, since the metal on the screw is pretty soft, or I just got unlucky, and one of them started to strip a little bit, so plan is to leave it be, maybe even threadlock it when I have another hop up assembly.

I did give some support to the barrel while racking it and it made no difference.

This was a nice opportunity to get pictures of the sight mount, maybe this will help me find out if a real steel red dot sight mount will work on this gun.

Also a good thing I like tinkering with mechanical things, even though this is a crappy situation I enjoyed taking it apart, I gave the slide a thorough wipe down and re-lubrication, for some reason you will see a bit of paint wear in the area above the blowback unit.

The actual o ring in the blowback unit seems to be in immaculate shape which is good, the gun is only two or three days old after all, well, that and the test firing they did beforehand.

I did notice a little hook in the piston return spring, not sure if it's supposed to be like that or not, it does sort of hook underneath the sight I think. From the pictures I can find though that's abnormal.

I lubed the o ring thoroughly and for now at least the piston seems to be sliding in a little easier than before, it's not "catching' easily like it was before I did this process.

After a thorough lubing and cycling it a few times by hand it still catches on the hammer, there's a video below all these images that I took showing how much the hammer moves down even in the fully cocked position, and how much it moves down when the slide is over it.

The gun was shipping in it's own box without any special packaging around it but a bag, though that was in a larger box full of packing peanuts, I'm wondering if it's possible during transit it got knocked around a bit or somehow the sear spring got bent, or fatigued somehow, and that's why the hammer can move so much more? I'm hoping you guys can take videos of how much yours moves when it's fully cocked so I can see if mine is close or not.

Putting them in a spoiler to try and keep the thread a little more clean. My phone has a 21mp camera so you should be able to zoom in quite far unless imgur compresses them a lot.

https://youtu.be/0cWPsT3z33o

Full album with 37 pictures here, including a few retakes to get good ones and misc. others I took of the mount and whatnot to try and find a red dot mount in the future. Also has some old duplicates.

http://imgur.com/a/ZHNmt

January 9th, 2017, 07:14	#15
XOIIO Trader rating Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Saskatoon, sk	I don't want to take apart the hop up unit much more, since the metal on the screw is pretty soft, or I just got unlucky, and one of them started to strip a little bit, so plan is to leave it be, maybe even threadlock it when I have another hop up assembly. I did give some support to the barrel while racking it and it made no difference. This was a nice opportunity to get pictures of the sight mount, maybe this will help me find out if a real steel red dot sight mount will work on this gun. Also a good thing I like tinkering with mechanical things, even though this is a crappy situation I enjoyed taking it apart, I gave the slide a thorough wipe down and re-lubrication, for some reason you will see a bit of paint wear in the area above the blowback unit. The actual o ring in the blowback unit seems to be in immaculate shape which is good, the gun is only two or three days old after all, well, that and the test firing they did beforehand. I did notice a little hook in the piston return spring, not sure if it's supposed to be like that or not, it does sort of hook underneath the sight I think. From the pictures I can find though that's abnormal. I lubed the o ring thoroughly and for now at least the piston seems to be sliding in a little easier than before, it's not "catching' easily like it was before I did this process. After a thorough lubing and cycling it a few times by hand it still catches on the hammer, there's a video below all these images that I took showing how much the hammer moves down even in the fully cocked position, and how much it moves down when the slide is over it. The gun was shipping in it's own box without any special packaging around it but a bag, though that was in a larger box full of packing peanuts, I'm wondering if it's possible during transit it got knocked around a bit or somehow the sear spring got bent, or fatigued somehow, and that's why the hammer can move so much more? I'm hoping you guys can take videos of how much yours moves when it's fully cocked so I can see if mine is close or not. Putting them in a spoiler to try and keep the thread a little more clean. My phone has a 21mp camera so you should be able to zoom in quite far unless imgur compresses them a lot. https://youtu.be/0cWPsT3z33o Full album with 37 pictures here, including a few retakes to get good ones and misc. others I took of the mount and whatnot to try and find a red dot mount in the future. Also has some old duplicates. http://imgur.com/a/ZHNmt Last edited by XOIIO; January 9th, 2017 at 07:18..