Defarbing a Swiss Arms 1911A1 Part 4
Defarbing a Swiss Arms 1911A1 Part 4 Part 3 Part 2 Part 1
Sliding into home, almost…
By Dennis Adler
“Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.”
– Ralphie Parker, A Christmas Story
One little problem
Birchwood Casey Perma Blue works on most alloy components as shown with the frame. But…the slide on the Swiss Arms 1911A1 is a different alloy composition than the frame and the Perma Blue won’t color it. Now, I have not had this happen with other alloy slides going back to the Gletcher Makarov TT-33, which turned out perfectly. But whatever alloy combination Swiss Arms uses for the slide doesn’t work with Perma Blue, it just beads up into little blue droplets and does nothing.