1911 restoration

[CEHollier]

My father who lives in Houston has an old Colt 1911 that needs work done to it. He said for sure most of the blueing is gone and it's loose. It also needs other minor work according to him. He will bring it down next trip over here. My question, is anyone on the forum good at restoring these old 45's. He doesn't want a museum piece. Just a good shooter.

Thanks,

Charles

 

[vsound]

You could try sending it to Plate-tacular in St. Amant. Get a nice cobalt finish on it. He can supposedly do the finish in black now.

www.plate-tacular.com

 

[Narco]

aw just sell it to me and i'll give him a glock

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Ed Vandenberg is in Houston and is the guy he needs to see. Yu can find him on the American Pistolsmiths Guild Website.

 

[Quas]

You could try sending it to Plate-tacular in St. Amant. Get a nice cobalt finish on it. He can supposedly do the finish in black now.

www.plate-tacular.com

Spanky, why does the name Daniel Hidalgo sound familiar? Is that one of the Get On It Racing guys? Had the old dakot he kept blowing up?

 

[Swampy]

If he just wants a plain old carry gun why not just re-blue it and be done..

And for tightening it up...

Here is a chart with all the parts and names of parts...

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...parts&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&sa=N


Scroll down to where it says Colt 1911 and click "Keep Reading"

I like to do as much of my own work as possible.. Sometimes its not possible so I go to Gretna Gun and let them do the stuff I cant do....
I had them Parkerize a gun for me not long ago.. I dont know if they sent it off or did it in house but it was a great job...

 

[LAYNFRM]

Spanky, why does the name Daniel Hidalgo sound familiar? Is that one of the Get On It Racing guys? Had the old dakot he kept blowing up?

wrong daniel. you're thinking of daniel "sparkplug".

 

[scooterj]

Spanky, why does the name Daniel Hidalgo sound familiar? Is that one of the Get On It Racing guys? Had the old dakot he kept blowing up?

Daniel is a teacher at St.Amant High.

 

[Request Dust Off]

Pain Man,
Check with Rockmup on what he can do. I think he was a .45 guy first & foremost.
Later,
RDO

 

[Request Dust Off]

That plate-tacular stuff seem pretty nice also.

 

[scooterj]

The STI Spartan is for me. It's been in and out of a kydex holster more than I care to count. Cobalt Armor is really tuff. Daniel has my XD and STI 38super now. He should be updating his site soon.