No-Tilt Barrel Mod for Magna Western Arms SV Infinity

[Bobby Lemain]

As a warning to everyone else, do not shave off the barrel lugs on your WA to attempt to do a no-tilt mod (which works on TM 1911/2011 guns). Your gun will now have an automatic slide... unless that's what you wanted

[pestobanana]

Also why you should figure out how your gun works before bringing out the dremel.

[Drake]

wtf is a no tilt mod? sounds like a pinball cheat

[siggypoo]

Barrel doesn't tilt down when the slide is pulled back.
Dunno what the reason would be to do that.

[Bobby Lemain]

Originally Posted by siggypoo

Barrel doesn't tilt down when the slide is pulled back.
Dunno what the reason would be to do that.

Yeah, they specifically made TM aftermarket outer barrels that were one piece with the chamber supposedly for accuracy but any benefit from that is debatable since the BB is supposed to leave the barrel before the tilting action occurs.

Its increasingly difficult to source a Western Arms R-Type chamber made of any metal whatsoever, so I figured that if there was nothing touching it, nothing would break. I'm just a paranoid running an aluminum slide with a plastic chamber tis all.

I got the idea from StrikeFreedomo of this forum, who did this to his TM and posted the mod somewhere in the giant 1911/Hi-Capa thread.

However, perhaps there was too much grease on my sears because the problem fixed itself and the gun shoots semi-only once again haha

[siggypoo]

Too much lube? Sounds like a personal prob, lol.
Really, my We HiCapa hangs a bit en route to battery, and I wondered about dehorning the lugs (it's at that point that the slide hangs), but I've seen horror stories of 1911 owners who tried that and ended up with an epileptic, rattle-ridden ballistic bomb crater.