Been a while since I posted here. Greeting to my fellow 1911 fans.
Someone handed me a Colt Pocket 9 that was missing the hammer strut and spring, and asked me if I can get it to work. After inspecting the firearm it seems it's still in good working condition provided I can find the parts. Well out of luck with the hammer strut. Contacted Colt and I was directed to GunParts. If Numrich doesn't have it then it's just not available. It's not the first time I made small parts for a gun, but this time I don't have any broken parts to copy. I asked a member if they can take a picture of the hammer strut from their rare Pocket 9 on top of a dollar bill but never got a reply. After looking at parts list pics and YT vids it took me 2 tries to forge a part from tempered steel. A pic of the strut I made next to a blank rod. The spring I'm using is from a S&W 640 and it was short. I ended up making an extender/guide to make the spring work.
After a few tries grinding and polishing I got it to fit and function like it supposed to. So I need to clean up the gun and test fire it. Will update once that is done.
Someone handed me a Colt Pocket 9 that was missing the hammer strut and spring, and asked me if I can get it to work. After inspecting the firearm it seems it's still in good working condition provided I can find the parts. Well out of luck with the hammer strut. Contacted Colt and I was directed to GunParts. If Numrich doesn't have it then it's just not available. It's not the first time I made small parts for a gun, but this time I don't have any broken parts to copy. I asked a member if they can take a picture of the hammer strut from their rare Pocket 9 on top of a dollar bill but never got a reply. After looking at parts list pics and YT vids it took me 2 tries to forge a part from tempered steel. A pic of the strut I made next to a blank rod. The spring I'm using is from a S&W 640 and it was short. I ended up making an extender/guide to make the spring work.


After a few tries grinding and polishing I got it to fit and function like it supposed to. So I need to clean up the gun and test fire it. Will update once that is done.