LLAMA .380 (Think Colt Mustang)
Friend asked me to make his baby 1911 work.
Fires fine. Failure to eject, fail to cycle, fail to feed.
Slide retract enough to half cock the hammer.
At first, I figured the extractor since this model is notorious for extractor failure. I removed the extractor, deburred, dressed up the claw, polished and reinstalled. No change.
Then I put in a lighter recoil spring. No change, so I put the original back in.
Something kept eating at me about the slide only going back to half cock. I assembled the pistol and turned it upside down. Then I attempted to cycle the slide. IT WOULDN'T BUDGE!
The barrel link had vertical play of about one millimeter. I popped it out and sure enough, the small pin hole was cracked at the thin part and the hole was elongated. The allowed the barrel to remain locked to the slide when it should have been free.
I'll mill a new link tomorrow since parts for these are impossible to find, but has anyone else ever seen this problem? I did an online search and all I can find are extractor problems for this gun.
Fires fine. Failure to eject, fail to cycle, fail to feed.
Slide retract enough to half cock the hammer.
At first, I figured the extractor since this model is notorious for extractor failure. I removed the extractor, deburred, dressed up the claw, polished and reinstalled. No change.
Then I put in a lighter recoil spring. No change, so I put the original back in.
Something kept eating at me about the slide only going back to half cock. I assembled the pistol and turned it upside down. Then I attempted to cycle the slide. IT WOULDN'T BUDGE!
The barrel link had vertical play of about one millimeter. I popped it out and sure enough, the small pin hole was cracked at the thin part and the hole was elongated. The allowed the barrel to remain locked to the slide when it should have been free.
I'll mill a new link tomorrow since parts for these are impossible to find, but has anyone else ever seen this problem? I did an online search and all I can find are extractor problems for this gun.
0
-
Interesting. A close inspection might have revealed the elongated hole, and maybe even the crack. I use a good hand lens a lot more these days.
I would make at least two while you are at it.0 -
The military LLama's made for the Spanish Police and Army. Might have been marginally better, as far as workmanship and quality of materials were concerned?
But the commercial guns exported to the States, left a lot to be desired. Don't believe engineering or materials wise. They were designed for sustained use, that U.S. shooters wanted.
Last one I owned was a Model 87 Competition. It stood up well, and was accurate. But was just their steel frame knock-off, of the Beretta Model 92. For what Stoeger sold them for in the 80's. It should be expected, they were better quality than the run of the mill Llama's sold in the States.0 -
I finished milling out a new barrel link from an old Russian ammo can I had for scrap.
Installed it into the pistol and ran a whole mag through it without a problem. The brass was slung fifteen feet off to the right.
That was the whole problem.
[:D][:D]0 -
Nothing like a mill spec ammo can to make parts from. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by charliemeyer007
Nothing like a mill spec ammo can to make parts from.
Personally, I prefer an old fender from a '51 DeSoto. Better metallurgy. [:I]0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
5 comments