Disassembling 1911 compact

[General Disaray]

As soon as one of you catches your breath from laughing at me for buying a gun I know nothing about (:rofl:), could you explain how to disassemble a Springfield Micro Compact. I know that Kimber's have a hole in their compact to stick a little alum wrench into, but this one doesn't. I actually had to watch several videos on youtube to learn that much about them; they only had videos of Kimber Ultra's, and one where the guy stuck a plastic clip onto the guide rod. I didn't think to ask the guy I bought it from (used) how to do it, cuz I figured it was going to be just like my Gov. Now I've got it on my bench and can't figure out how to get the spring out from the slide.:dunno:


Also, I had several failure to feeds with my own hand loads. I was presuming that it was likely the OAL of the loads (which are flawless in my Gov.)? In a few cases the FTF had a corresponding FTE with it. These little guys are pretty tight; I was hoping it was my hand loads. Any thoughts?

[MSgt Dotson]

Does the recoil spring plug have an Allen wrench hole in it facing muzzle out? If not, it will have to be captured first.

I usually use an Allen wrench t-handle of appropriate size to depress the reverse plug (Inserting it below barrel at 4:00 or 7:00 below muzzle), then insert a bent paper clip or even smaller 1-1.5 mm allen wrench into the guide rod to hold the plug in the compressed position....

Once compressed and captured, there should be sufficient space to slide the rod/springs assy forward so that it and the barrel can be removed. (helps to have 3 hands doing it that way, unfortunately!)

[Jim Watson]

Actually, I reserve my laughter for the ones who don't even know what they bought; with some over for the ones who want a "price check" after they have paid.

If you had gone to the SA website and downloaded the manual, you would find that you should have gotten with the gun a "takedown piece" to trap the recoil springs with.

I bet if you called SA they would send you one, along with the instructions, being a safety consideration and all.

[gconan]

Springfield will send you one with a phone call as said above.
You can always just line up the slide-notch and take out the slidestop.