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To: Tijeras_Slim

Hell yeah, and the Mastodon grips would be icing on the cake.


20 posted on 03/19/2019 6:13:13 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi; Tijeras_Slim

Smith Alexander who made mag well guides with mainspring housings used to have a Westinghouse “white”material used for 1911A1 Grips. I would use a recipe of a few crystals of potassium permanganate (size of grains of salt) in a ice tea glass of warm tap water. The water was stired till faint purple / pinkish color. Drop that white grip in for a few seconds and pull it out and gauge the results of the dye process that looks like aged ivory. Very good process. Keep track of the total time the grip was dunked into the solution and the other will match perfectly. Mine are about 35 years old and hold that yellowed aged ivory look perfectly on my El Presidente 38 Super and on another 1911A I carried back when .......

Sadly I can’t find the “white” grips on Smith Alexanders web site...... here is the link if ya want to call and ask. Well worth the try !

http://www.smithandalexander.com/grips.html


25 posted on 03/19/2019 11:38:45 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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