Hi Ed..!
Actually - I wrote a lengthy post at one time in the 1911 Forum about tuning "extractors" in the Dan Wesson Forum:
http://www.1911forum.com/forums/foru...?s=&forumid=52
I post there are "jd-08" (big surprise, huh?? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> ). Anyway - I'll try to do a search there later today for you. Also - to "tune" the extractor, you only need to need to remove the FPS and insert the extractor's base into the slide ("backwards"), then gently bend it to achieve the correct tension. No pliers required