Ed Bachner

[Ed Bachner]

Good evening, friends! I am really enjoying your Forums (Fora??),
and hope this post will reach someone that help me with a sticky problem:

I recently obtained a Colt MkIV Series '80 .45ACP, beautifully accursed by
those outstanding gunsmiths in Louisiana! Now, I am learning how to
re-assemble a Series '80, with all its headaches?

Two questions:
#1. Has anyone ever simplified instructions to re-assemble the
more more complicated Sear and Disconnector parts, the design of which
seems to be well intended?

#2. Mine came to me without the Series '80 Firing Pin Safety Plunger, and
it's spring, and I can't find anywhere I can buy a couple of each (one to install,
one because it looks easy to loose!). All the normal list these parts as "Sold Out".

Many thanx, if anyone has some advice - some parts!

p.s. After a very long wait, I have recently received my new LabRadar.
Beautiful workmanship, and exciting to read about! Hopefully, I'll begin
shaking it down tomorrow, and will share my results with you folks!

[StrawHat]

Ed,

First off, welcome to the community!

I am not sure where to direct you to buy those parts. Perhaps the gunsmiths who remove them may have some available?

I also have a Series 80 and while not my favorite handgun, it will do it's job effectively and with competence, if I remember the way it works. I am an old, dyed in the wool, revolver fan so those safeties and buttons are sometimes forgotten.

Enjoy the forum, lot's of good information is available here.

Kevin

[Windwalker 45acp]

IS the problem you are having on the S80 in keeping the disconcector, sear, trigger bar lever and plunger lever all together in place as you re-assemble?
If so, I lay it on it's right side to reassemble to keep things from moving around. Another trick is to use a dab of grease or vaseline to make it stick in place until you pin it. Wipe excess off when done.

After you've done it a few hundred times though, it becomes second nature to you and becomes much easier to reassemble.

As for parts Midway and Brownells have always done right by me.
hth

PS
Welcome!

[Windwalker 45acp]

Ed,

This may or may not help you right now, but you might find it helpful in the future. It's tutorial I wrote up a couple years back on a complete tool-less teardown of the M1911 just using it's own parts as tools, as JMB intended.

http://milsimempire.com/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=4987