Update on Kramer's Kolt Kompact

[1911Tuner]

Another Officer's Model from Hell BEATEN into submission by a close encounter
of the Tune Kind. bwahahahaha! It was Tunerized with fear as I approached it and told it that it WOULD behave or be eaten alive by my '03 Springfield.
It was like takin' candy from a Baby Browning...It was whupped into submission with a sledge hammer and a blow torch! It runs! It feeds, extracts and ejects. It locks the slide back on empty! All its demons have been exorcised and cast back into the depths of GlockHell from whence they came!

Details at 6... :D

[SMMAssociates]

It was whupped into submission with a sledge hammer and a blow torch! It runs! It feeds, extracts and ejects. It locks the slide back on empty! All its demons have been exorcised and cast back into the depths of GlockHell from whence they came! Hm.... A blowtorch? Maybe that'll fix the magazines for my Para.... :D I think I've tried everything else, although finding a sacrifical virgin was a bit of a problem. :eek:

Seriously, good job!

Regards,

[bearandoldman]

Another short barrel gun runs like it should. Wish everyone could have the same luck as I have with my SAa Micro Compact, will run on most any ammo and shoots as accurate as a full size in action pistol targets. Glad to hear that even after looing a few battles the war has bee WON.

[1911Tuner]

I left out the part about coverin' it up with Red Devil lye and backin' over it with the truck twice. Didn't wanna upset Kramer or give away any trade secrets, but when ya find one that's plum fulla worms and evil Mojo, ya gotta do whatcha gotta do. :eek:

[bearandoldman]

It's not the method of repair that means aything it's the end result that counts. Who cares how as long as it runs. Really if burning black candles, beating a drum and putting a voodoo curse on it, As we always said in the repair, it works andthat's what counts. I left out the part about coverin' it up with Red Devil lye and backin' over it with the truck twice. Didn't wanna upset Kramer or give away any trade secrets, but when ya find one that's plum fulla worms and evil Mojo, ya gotta do whatcha gotta do. :eek:

[Kramer Krazy]

I left out the part about coverin' it up with Red Devil lye and backin' over it with the truck twice. Didn't wanna upset Kramer or give away any trade secrets, but when ya find one that's plum fulla worms and evil Mojo, ya gotta do whatcha gotta do. :eek:

Before I gave it to Tuner, I told the little ACP that it better behave, or I was going to have a Kimber Compact Stainless II sitting where it used to and the little Colt will be placed into semi-retirement in the safe. :eek: :D

[1911Tuner]

In a word...

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! (Issa southern thang)

70 rounds...10 full magazines, each with one up the spout with one failure to go to battery on a funky cast bullet round during a reload from slidelock that never repeated. The empty brass piled up in a 3-foot circle about 5 feet from the gun..all ejected from the port at 2 O'Clock or slightly higher. All ammo was hardball equivalent with one mag full of 230 Hydra-Shok...except the one cast bullet round...with a 1.260 inch cartridge OAL. The little gun just flat ran. :p

Testing was done with firm, two-handed grips and extremely limp, one-handed grips. It functioned when held upside down and sideways. It functioned in slow-fire and as fast as I could pull the trigger...and the little bugger is pretty damned accurate.

Kramer...Better come and fetch it before I decide that I like it too much.
It's ready to come home... :cool:

Standin' by...

[bearandoldman]

Glad to hear you tried the homeboy hold, got to make sure thaton work, now just need to get them homeboy sighs mounted on the right hand side of the slide. Told you them little guns shoot. At the range Sunday first mag full of 7 all in the 0 zone on an IDPA target running on one of thei 7 stop programs. What is the weather like ther in late Jan or Feb, Ma and I are thinking of taking a road trip down sout to get warm about then, anythig obove 55 is cinsidered hot to me at that time of the year, Bear send a Woooooooofie to you pack pf pooches. That means have a good on one in goldonese

[Kramer Krazy]

<snip>...and the little bugger is pretty damned accurate.

Kramer...Better come and fetch it before I decide that I like it too much.
It's ready to come home... :cool:

Standin' by...

I've said it before.......there's just something I like about that little gun. After taking it to the range and realizing what my sighting problem was, and relearning the gun, I really love how accurate it is and the way it feels (even moreso with the new Hogue grips). I'm glad you have repaired it to make it faithful and reliable. I'm anxious to hit the range with it, again.

I think we are scheduled at work to run tests all this week, so I have no idea when I'm getting off of work. Not too sure what this weekend looks like, but I'm sure the wife wouldn't want me to abandon her for a day, two weekends in a row. I'll see what she has planned for this weekend, other than the Greenville Gun Show with me on Sunday. Every evening is available next week, as it looks now. I'll email you about potential dates and times to do the swap. :D

[1911Tuner]

Aight! Enough of the accolades. There were a few issues with the pistol...all of'em fairly simple. The problem was that they all stacked up to create two big problems...Feeding and extracting/ejecting. It was typical of many of the early chopped variants in that ya gotta change one thing at a time....and just a little...to see whether or not you're headed in the right direction. Some of'em come around quickly...some don't. Kramer's required two trips and about an hour of hard thinkin' to figure out what it was doin'. It hit me
about midnight after he reported that it still wouldn't run. I neglected somethin' simple that my instincts said to LOOK AT AGAIN , DUH... and when I tended to it the second trip...Ba-Da-BING! Lesson learned.

Cheers!

[bearandoldman]

All of a sudden the light come on "Oh S==t why didn't I check that? Has hppened to me before, you are right with the one thing at a time, if you do more than one you don't really know which one helped or hindered.Aight! Enough of the accolades. There were a few issues with the pistol...all of'em fairly simple. The problem was that they all stacked up to create two big problems...Feeding and extracting/ejecting. It was typical of many of the early chopped variants in that ya gotta change one thing at a time....and just a little...to see whether or not you're headed in the right direction. Some of'em come around quickly...some don't. Kramer's required two trips and about an hour of hard thinkin' to figure out what it was doin'. It hit me
about midnight after he reported that it still wouldn't run. I neglected somethin' simple that my instincts said to LOOK AT AGAIN , DUH... and when I tended to it the second trip...Bad-Da-BING! Lesson learned.

Cheers!

[1911Tuner]

Yep Len...

I'll do one more test-fire with a magazine full just to confirm, and post the procedure, including my "Sin of Omission." The one step that I neglected to do was one that I normally do as a matter of course, but skipped it on this one because of an out-of-spec condition in the slide. I skipped over it in order to avoid a small problem should he ever need to detail-strip it.

I've skipped over it in the past...and for the same reasons...without the problems that this one gave. Sometimes it just takes more than one shot
at the tweak to get it right. If we could have test-fired it the first time,
we could have avoided the second trip. Ol' Murphy wreaks his homegrown havok on me every so often...just to keep me on my toes. :rolleyes:

Ya'll stand by for the technical thread on this interesting little pistol. It
epitomized the approach of each one bein' a law unto itself.