Griffon VS Glock Part II

Posted by Greybeard on Feb 27th, 2006 in Shootist | 0 comments

Ok, with a bit a help from the 1911 forum on www.ar15.com ,
I was able to disassemble the Griffon. Funny how simple it is when you know the “secrete code”.
Even though I had thoroughly washed it down with “Gun Scrubber”,
it was shocking to see how dirty is was internally.
All the important stuff was fairly clean and well lubed, but all the crevises were packed with oily burnt powder residue.
I can now, authoritively say, that it is clean and well lubed.
There is very little wear, and it looks like a very solid old gun.
In a day or so, I’ll pull the slide and send it off to P-T night sights, to get the tritium tubes (on the sights) replaced. Then, hopefully by the time the slide comes back, the new spare mag. and holster will be here. Shortly after that, I’ll post a range report and some more pictures.

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And for the record;

On a 1911 with a “solid ejector spring rod”, the disassemble procedure is as follows:
1. Drop the magazine
2. Be sure the chamber is unloaded
3. Pull the slide back until the small notch on the slide lines up with the slide stop lever.
4. Pull/push out the slide stop lever
5. Carefully slide the “slide” off (toward barrel end of the gun)
Dirt and grime exposed!
6. Lift the rear end of the ejector spring rod slightly
7. Use a barrel lug wrench to rotate the barrel lug, (clockwise)
8. Once clear of the lug the ejector spring rod with jump out the front.
9. Now slide the barrel carefully out the front of the slide.
10. Clean, lube and resassemble.