F.B.Radom con't

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January 12, 2015 16:29

To clarify prior poster.
In your picture, the top inner claw angle needs to be horizontal so the claw tip will be in contact with the rim.
As it is, the claw will slip off. A few careful strokes of a jeweler's file will do it.
Your chamber should be polished to reduce the load on the extractor.
The magazine lips don't look symmetrical.
Norinco in their 9mm 213s put a bump in slide bottoms to bump the fresh round down as the fired brass passes over it so it doesn't hang
up as in your case.

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  competentone

  January 13, 2015 03:46

  From the pictures you posted the ejector looks fine. The extractor "head" does look a little short, but from your description about spent shell casings ending up spun around, but not being thrown clear from the slide, I'm wondering if your aftermarket magazine is interfering with proper ejection.
  
  How does it eject spent shell casings if fired when the magazine is out?
  
  From the Radoms I've owned, the extractors would not hold rounds "tight" to the slide face. "T J McGill's" comment (on the now locked thread) about, "With the slide off and the extractor in place, you should be able to put a live round in the bolt face and shake it around without the bullet falling out." probably wouldn't work with the Radoms I've owned -- yet they extracted and ejected the spent shell-casings just fine.
  
  Finding another extractor -- particularly in good shape -- will take a bit of hunting (GunBroker would probably be a better bet than eBay, but I'd be searching both if I were you). Originally, the extractors were installed, then the outer rear surface of the slide (with the extractor end protruding) was finished. You'll likely won't have the flush, almost invisible, look for the extractor's end as is normal for original-finish guns. (Yours appears to be re-blued, so this may not be any issue.)
  
  I'd be trying to get an original magazine -- particularly if it extracts a spent shell casing well when fired without the magazine in it, or if you put in a replacement extractor and it still behaves the same way.
  
  Edit: I actually just looked at your first picture on the locked thread and noticed what appears to be the extractor end sticking out from the back end of the slide. Is that the way it appears when fully installed?

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  Flatfooted1

  January 13, 2015 07:46

  Yes it does. OMG. ITS THE WRONG EXTRACTOR ISNT IT!!!! LOL
  
  I had never even thought that it was possible but do you think the extractor is a modified 1911????
  
  The 1st time i saw the gun I wondered why something with such a fine fit and albeit refinished look would have the designers leaving it poking out the back like that.
  
  Theres no number on it either and the rest of the gun is matching so I just made a huge speculative jump that it was the correct piece all along.
  
  Wow. Please confirm if what im saying here is right.
  
  Im killing myself laughing with my girl right now. Lol

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  T J McGill

  January 13, 2015 13:22

  A 1911 extractor is around a half inch shorter and has a bigger circumfrerence than the Radom, it would be easier to widdle one out than to make that work. All i can tell you is that the extractors job is to extract the case from the chamber, a properly adjusted extractor will force the case head into the boltface until it strikes the ejector. This is true on all firearms, some you can get away with poorly tuned extractors, others you can't, ones with a negative angle and not enough engagement won't work at all.

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  Flatfooted1

  January 14, 2015 08:40

  Thankyou fella's
  
  I have ordered a new/old extractor as a replacement. Im going to compare it to the one I currently have and make any necessary changes to its shape to duplicate the new ones performance.
  
  Everyone has been fantastic. Thankyou
  
  Flatfooted1

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