</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Big Norm:
...But I don't believe that recheckering original grips or restaining them is wrong. I don't think that putting an original unaltered bottom unto an appropriate, original, unaltered tube is wrong either. But I don't think that putting that pin in and stamping a head on it without bending the tube is as easy as it looks.
Big Norm </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">How true Norm... one only has to look at the old trashy mexican origin reproduction Luger magazines to see that even manufacturing these mags "new" requires finesse and the RIGHT TOOLS. I have owned a couple of these old aluminum bottom mexican mags and they were nothing but trouble... they often have the appearance of being made by convicts with files and hammers that don't have a polished face
