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Found a handy little 1911 cleaning aid in my shop

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clovishound
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Found a handy little 1911 cleaning aid in my shop

Post by clovishound » Tue Jun 04, 2019 1:47 pm

I was cleaning my 1911 today and decided it was again time to disassemble and clean the extractor. I looked around for something to push down on the firing pin and remove the keeper. I looked over at my reloading bench and the spare Lee decapping rod jumped up and said "ME ME ME".

That little thing worked like a charm. The pin on the end is small enough to easily allow you to start sliding the keeper while keeping the pin depressed. The rod itself is large enough to get a decent grip on, and yet still see what's going on with the firing pin. I've used a number of things to disassemble this before, but this was hands down the easiest.

Don't know if that will help anyone out there, but thought I would pass it along.

For those that don't know what I'm talking about here's a picture.

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Re: Found a handy little 1911 cleaning aid in my shop

Post by Rifletom » Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:14 pm

I have one of those along with the rest of the Lee kit. Never thought about that for my 1911 Springfield. Darn good discovery. BTW, my "Lee Loader" was/is for a 30-30.
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