[John Rogers]

Well yesterday evening after it cooled off a bit I did the hardening treatment. I already had a torch but it was one that screws on the gas bottle so I bought the one Harbor Freight sells that has a hose so I just had to hold the torch head. I used a piece of piano wire through the hole in each piece and since we had a fine breeze I put some Cherry Red in a tin cup and also put some used motor oil in a container to do the quenching. On came the torch and it took a while to get the little piece (one at a time) so it was red hot as required then into the powder to coat the part. On came the torch again and it got red hot again for a few minutes then into the oil to quench. That took a couple minutes then brushing with a steel wire brush to get rid of all the blistered Cherry Red.

I repeated this for the other two parts and then took a piece of extra fine crocus cloth to wipe each surface. I was surprised how slippery things were so I put the trigger back together. Set it, released, set it and repeat several times and adjusted the trip screw. Pulled out the trigger gauge.......1.1OZ clean break after half a dozen cycles. I was surprised what a difference all this made. One of my shooting buddies is super happy his 1911 is 4# when the hammer is cocked first and now he wants me to work on it but I said nooooooo.