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I posted here regarding the barrel I received from Storm Lake.
Long story short, it was part of Remington's rebate program, get a SL barrel with 1911 purchase. My threaded barrel came in and wouldn't install into the pistol, the bushing wouldn't slide onto the barrel. I called SL and was told there is a 0.002" burr just on the shoulder of the threading preventing the bushing from sliding on. These barrels were machined for Remington and shouldn't require a fit bushing from SL. The tech guy advised me to just file off the burr and it will be good to go. He said I was number 4 with this problem.
What I figured I'd do is tape the threads then put a file on a flat surface and just lightly rotate that portion of the barrel on the file, checking for it and going slowly.
Just looking for any recommendation on the process or the file. For the file I figured just a very fine file would work, but didn't know if there was something specific.
Long story short, it was part of Remington's rebate program, get a SL barrel with 1911 purchase. My threaded barrel came in and wouldn't install into the pistol, the bushing wouldn't slide onto the barrel. I called SL and was told there is a 0.002" burr just on the shoulder of the threading preventing the bushing from sliding on. These barrels were machined for Remington and shouldn't require a fit bushing from SL. The tech guy advised me to just file off the burr and it will be good to go. He said I was number 4 with this problem.
What I figured I'd do is tape the threads then put a file on a flat surface and just lightly rotate that portion of the barrel on the file, checking for it and going slowly.
Just looking for any recommendation on the process or the file. For the file I figured just a very fine file would work, but didn't know if there was something specific.