Finally go the Colt out for its first cleaning.

[Carolinaman]

Hello,

I've owned this Colt Series 70 for over two years now and finally got it out to do its first cleaning since it left the factory. It had languished in its blue cardboard presentation case in the original factory wrap and I decided to take out of its perpetual storage...



I disassembled it, cleaned everything with solvent to get the factory protection coat removed, lubed it with Hopp's gun oil, and then applied Wilson's "Ultimate Lube" to all of the bearing surfaces. I joked via text with a friend that I managed to get the slide stop back in without leaving the "idiot scratch" on the frame... I speak with "experience" on the subject... However, I learned the "trick" of pushing down and up with the slide stop resting on the detent...

So now its ready for duty finally...

I need to find that BBQ someday...

Chris

[CXM]

Nice gun indeed... but it has been under privileged all these years... it is yearning for some trips to the range...

V/r

Chuck

[gt40doc]

Hard to go wrong with a new Colt 1911 and Hoppe's #9!!!  That is a fine looking piece....enjoy!

[Carolinaman]

Hello,

Yep! It certainly is a finely crafted Colt and the one 1911 that I have promised myself to never "mess with". Every 1911 I've owned I have become the ultimate "part swap" kitchen table gun plumber. Perhaps, that is why it has been sitting dormant for two years? I have a very strong connection to Colt 1911's as the first handgun I ever shot in my teens was a friends 1917 Commercial Model Colt.

Chris

[Mister Coffee]

That is such a nice-looking gun, Chris. I wonder if we will ever see its like from the Colt factory again. Enjoy it, sir.