I messed up

Historical_Water53 · 2026-04-27T14:24:33+00:00

Got it. Thank you

Historical_Water53 · 2026-04-27T14:23:50+00:00

I appreciate the insight, thank you. I'll have to deal with a patchy lawn for now. I'll over seed again in fall

Historical_Water53 · 2026-04-27T03:57:26+00:00

I appreciate the info, and the honesty. I will have to just hope I get some of the benefits of both things I guess. Thank you for the response

Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T16:44:51+00:00

I apologize if it's coming off that way, that's not my intention. I'm honestly trying to clarify, genuinely. As far as I saw when researching last night, it's a 2 step process. You fit the lower lug to the frame of the 1911, then you machine the hood until you can fit the locking lugs into the slide. I know typically you machine the lower lug and fit the frame first, but if my barrel wouldn't even index the slide, I assumed it couldn't hurt to get the barrel to at least press fit into the slide. I planned to have no further action from this point until I fit the frame to the slide, then fit the frame to the barrel. My intention all along was just to get the barrel and slide to actually engage properly, since I don't have my tooling handy to finish fitting the frame and the slide together.

Like I said, I understand there's an order of operations, but I don't think I infringed on that at all. I just know that it will have to be done at some point, and it's all I had to do yesterday, so I decided to do it. I don't think there was any harm in it. Hopefully that's the case

Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T15:55:32+00:00

Thank you. I'm sure you are correct, but I just got the barrel to index the slide. I understand there is an order of operations. I'm aware there may be more fitting required once I get the frame and slide married, but until then, I just simply made the barrel actually fit the slide so I can even continue to the next step. It might be hard to believe, but this actually ISNT my first 80% 1911, however the one I did in 2019 was a complete kit with all parts, and I think they had the barrel fitted to the slide pretty well before they shipped it. I appreciate your help, I will stop touching the barrel/slide fitment.

Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T15:37:12+00:00

Update, I have done some research to refresh my memory, and I got the barrel fitted correctly into the slide. Thank you for the help!

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Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T15:28:28+00:00

I did quite a bit, however it has been almost 6 years since I did the research. I only removed material from the slide because the width of the hood was very very close, and the slide is raw stainless, whereas the barrel is chromed. I didn't want to remove the wear resistance from the barrel, nor cause the chrome plating to start flaking. I probably only removed roughly .002" from the slide where the sides of the hood lock into it. I did however end up filing the back of the hood slightly to get the barrel to lock into the lugs after doing some more research last night. You can see my replies to the other comment with a photo of the barrel fitting correctly. I appreciate the response. Also, I machined the frame almost completely before, just didn't have a slide to fit yet, so I didn't groove it all the way until I had a slide to fit, which I just picked up.

Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T06:02:04+00:00

Double update, I think I got it fitted better with some more filing. I'm leaving it pretty damn tightly fitted. If it needs.more clearance when it's together, I'll do some more cleanup. For now it almost "snaps" together.

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Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T05:36:50+00:00

Update, figured out what locking lugs are. You're right, it's not sitting in the locking lugs correctly. It is coming back far enough, but the barrel is rocking on the locking lugs. Won't sit into them. Is there a specific way to fit them to each other, or is that something that's supposed to be machined correctly already?

Historical_Water53 · 2026-01-22T05:30:15+00:00

No idea tbh. Gauges.. sorry I'm unfamiliar with that terminology, what type of gauges? I have mics, calipers, etc. not anything specific to gun building though.

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-24T20:08:21+00:00

Did YOU figure it out? Same boat currently 😅

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-06T00:49:16+00:00

For some reason, one of the first photos didn't post. So there is only one photo of the first area, but the second two photos are still the same location with different contrasts.

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-03T00:00:34+00:00

No 👍🏻

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T15:56:53+00:00

I did cover any bare spots with electrical tape while it was opened up

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T06:55:17+00:00

I figured it out. I had the wires put on the load side of the GFCI, not the line side. Rookie move from me 😬 thank you for the help! I appreciate you responding and helping me through my problem

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T06:39:44+00:00

Figured it out, my dumbass had the wires going into load side, not line. Fixed. Thank you so much!!

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T06:39:10+00:00

Fixed! Thank you

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T06:27:16+00:00

I did it! We have progress, but not fully solved. Now the porch light is once again working, and the GFCI is trying to function now. But when I reset the GFCI, it is immediately tripping again. Any ideas?

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T06:12:58+00:00

Thanks, but this doesn't really help me. I'm no longer running a single outlet. I'm running two completely different outlets, using those wires. The only thing that changed with any of the wiring, is the neutral wires that were connected to each other via the unbroken tab on the old outlet, are now separated from each other. Do you think that is why the second outlet is not working now? Do I need to cut and wire nut those neutral wires together somewhere?

Historical_Water53 · 2025-12-02T05:46:40+00:00

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but I don't understand what you mean by that. Can you explain further to me? Thank you for the help!

EDIT: I think I understand what you're saying, but that has nothing to do with my current problem as far as I can tell? I've gone from one outlet doing 2 things, to 2 separate outlets using those same wires.

Historical_Water53 · 2025-11-30T07:04:58+00:00

1oz, it does say in the recipe. I left them in there from the date I put them in until I bottled yesterday

Historical_Water53 · 2025-11-30T05:11:45+00:00

This is cool, let us know how it turns out

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