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Thread: 1911 gunsmithing tools

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    Tom, you are right, screwdrivers, how did I forget?!!?

    Some years ago, I purchased a Chapman "Gun Screwdrivers Kit". Best thing you can get (if you can still get it) for your gunsmithing endeavors.

    Stones too. I have a Larsky knife sharpening kit and these stones have proved useful on more than one occasion. There are of course special stones for gunsmithing, but these are what I have and use.

    A bench block too, it's one of those things you do not appreciate, until the first time you use it.

    One of those desk lamps with the illuminated magnifying glass. Especially if your eyes are no longer what they used to be.

    Feeler gauges indispensable too.

    Finally, an AR-15 firing pin, or if you want something more elaborate Wilson Versa Tool.
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    In addition to files & stones to shape things, make them smaller and polish them, there's also the coated abrasives (aka, sandpaper). John mentioned emery cloth and it comes in coarse, medium & fine grits - and fine emery is still quite coarse. I also use 3M or Norton wet-or-dry silicon carbide sheets in grits from 80 down to 2000. Auto body supply stores have the real fine stuff as well as Crocus cloth - which is good for polishing certain metals.

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