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HD 1911 Ambi Thumb Safety Blue Reviews

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HD 1911 Ambi Thumb Safety - Blued Carbon Steel
This ambidextrous 1911 HD (heavy duty) thumb safety is the perfect upgrade for your 1911. This 1911 thumb safety is not a drop-in part and will require fitting. Replace your stock 1911 thumb safety with our 1911 HD ambi thumb safety.
Use our ambi to upgrade your single sided 1911 or as a replacment for your worn out or broken ambi.
We are excited to be one of the few to offer a machined from solid steel thumb safety. We saw a need for a cleaner, more solid design as a result of consistent failures of inferior cast and MIM thumb safeties currently on the market. The only way to keep the safeties as straight as possible is to heat treat the steel and then machine it in the hardened condition. The thumb safety is serrated for better gripping capability.Both paddles are machined from solid blocks of heat treated steel and measure .328" wide.
We include 2 special hammer pins for frames that measure .750 to .765 wide.
The hammer pin is also the down stop for the right paddle.
Using our swiss screw machines, we manufacture the hammer pins, shortened flat headed .110 sear pin, and our Patent Pending sleeve. The parts are all heat treated.
The ambi joint is machined and flat. Not tapered which tends to work out and loosen over time.
The sleeve joins each side inside the frame tangs. The grip safety rides on the round sleeve and is not influenced when operating the safety.
The sleeve prevents the safety from expanding where the sides join.
The sleeve functionally makes each side longer for more secure operation and less flex.
On the safety lug that contacts the frame on the left hand side, we machine a radius down stop instead of a pointed contact found on many safeties
The t-slot on the right hand side prevents the safety from walking out.
No need to relieve your right hand grips for the safety.
This thumb safety still requires fitting for proper function in your 1911 and is not a drop in part.STI width pins are now available.Patent Number: 10,126,086 B2
Warning: This product may be alloyed with trace amounts of lead and other elements which are known to the State of California to cause reproductive harm and cancer. To prevent exposure, do not alter the product by welding, grinding, etc. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

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52 BELMONT AVE,
QUAKERTOWN
Pennsylvania
18951

Truly these are the best Ambi safety on the market. Strong and durable and they measure .328 for the paddles if anyone is interested. Also the connector cylinder/tube or whatever you want to call it as a stroke of Genius, just be careful if you squish it all together prior to putting it in your gun, it could be a little tricky to get separated, learned that one the hard way LOL Overall though excellent and you even get the 108 tool as well which is like a $10 freebie, talk about a value!
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Posted 2 years ago
I purchased a couple of 1911s and really wanted an ambi safety on both of them. There are many of them available out there but I kept coming back to this one. The sleeve just makes a lot of sense to me in helping this safety stay aligned. I spent about an hour fitting this to my new Springfield Emissary. I'm new to fitting parts to guns and in particular the 1911 but I'm not new to machining and fitting parts for other areas like automotive restoration. The fitment was a breeze. It took me a while because I wanted it to fit perfect and it does. It functions much cleaner than the original. The fit and finish is great! I purchased my 2nd unit last night for the twin Emissary. I'll pass both of these down eventually and I'm sure my kids will love them as much as I do.
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Posted 3 years ago