Sunday, March 25, 2012

How to Fix Your WE or SOCOM Gear 1911 Two Piece Pistol Outer Barrel

Lately I've gotten quite a few people asking how to fix the two piece outer barrel on the WE/SOCOM Gear 1911's after I posted a video showing the gun functioning perfectly fine. I thought I would take some time out to make a quick tutorial on how to fix the problem yourself and not have to shell out the cash for a Marui one piece outer barrel.

I was actually quite surprised as to how easy this was. I was originally going to pick up a used Marui one piece and then someone mentioned to me just gluing it back together. I went back and forth on this because I wasn't sure if that would fix the problem when the problem actually comes from WE/SOCOM Gear gluing the barrels from the factory. Then someone suggested JB Weld and I just happened to have some of the Harbor Freight Quick Drying Epoxy on hand so I gave it a try and it worked!

It's pretty much common knowledge to use JB Weld to get the barrel to hold together correctly but I thought I would pass the idea along just in case it hadn't crossed someone else's mind.

Feel free to leave me some feedback and let me know if this helped.
Thanks!





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