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I have a set of redwood burl grips made by a member here. Danm memory fails every so often but they are beautiful. Had them mabe 10 or 15 y.
Thanks, but the Kudos go to you for showing me and a lot of others on knowing this little truck. I went into an Ace in another city as my local one just closed their doors. I tried to look for an older guy and showed him my grips and the screw saying I wanted a little spacer to save the wood from splitting out....He looked at me and then the grips and screw, and I said " Wait, look at this photo". He looked and said...." Ohhh".....He went right to the last aisle where all the little red boxes were and he went right to the 30 cent little white spacers !!!! Seriously, you have to archive those photos as they are invaluable for any guy in the future to have an easy way of getting them. The photos did it all...Thanks again !!Kudos on getting the spacers. But only remove a VERY small amount. Only about .005. So a spacer should be .5000, and you reduce it to .4995.
You know, I was thinking a little bit about this and was just wondering why Ruger never installed this little spacer in the first place. It wouldn't really cost them much at all as they would buy these things in bulk & they don't even cost much individually at a retail store. All, if not most of this grip breakage problem wouldn't even happen with the spacer already there from the factory when they put the grips on to the gun before shipping it out. To me, it can't be the cost of the little part ? And I can't really see any real labor to do it. What do you think about that ? Just wondering??Kudos on getting the spacers. But only remove a VERY small amount. Only about .005. So a spacer should be .5000, and you reduce it to .4995.
Who knows, maybe I should have tried that. I tried sanding the spacer last night for about 5 minutes.....nothing. I think the sandpaper I bought is too fine. It's the black fine stuff and it shows white on the paper, but it's not going down. It's like this plastic spacer is made out of diamond material....Tonight I tried it again while listening to my oldies channel. Song after song after song, etc ...when Elvis was through with " I'll Remember You" , I shut off the radio and looked at my spacer. It looked nice and shiny and like it had been kissed with lip gloss, and that's about it. I didn't want to kiss it though, more like throw it across the room......I can still hear Elvis....I use clear plastic tubing like for fish tank air delivery. A foot of that will last awhile. Easy cut to length. Got that at ACE too.
I would think that if you insert the screw in the one side of the grip, hold it to the frame, and place the spacer, you could use a straight edge to make sure it is down far enough.I don't have a grinding wheel. I thought about that while trying to sand it. I also don't have any calipers, but the black sand paper has a lot of white on it. Maybe it's ok now ?? I was thinking of just trying it as it is now and just go slow and see if it lines up ok......Thanks....
Hopefully it is, or just listen to the radio a little bit more.....the nail file idea sounds good. I will have to check when she isn't around. I have to admit though my wife doesn't really use those things much as by working in the yard and garden, her nails kind of take care of themselves naturally. She's a good girl and I'm lucky to have her...I would think that if you insert the screw in the one side of the grip, hold it to the frame, and place the spacer, you could use a straight edge to make sure it is down far enough.
When I use a straight edge to hold against the grip frame, I guess the spacer should be actually touching the straight edge then, correct ? That way the grip itself will be making contact with frame & be flush with the spacer at same time ?I would think that if you insert the screw in the one side of the grip, hold it to the frame, and place the spacer, you could use a straight edge to make sure it is down far enough.