Luger 45 ACP Magazine Progress

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Progress on magazine development

2/24/2017: New 50 ton press ordered
2/28/2017: Magazine buttons finished
3/5/2017: Magazine spring guide finished
3/11/2017: Magazine followers finished
3/14/2017: Magazine aluminum bottoms finished
3/21/2017: Finally new 50 ton press has arrived
3/24/2017: First set of 10 magazines tubes made on soft dies with new press
3/29/2017: Two magazines made one for each gun with 0.030 coil springs
3/29/2017: Testing showing unreliable feeding
3/29/2017: Calibration springs set ordered
3/30/2017: New 0.045 coil springs made
4/5/2017: Classic 1907 Luger 45 was tested with pictured magazine using 250 rounds,
some fine tuning was needed for the feeding ramp to get 100% reliability.
Last 75 rounds tested did not show stops of any kind
4/6/2017: 1000 more rounds are order for more detailed testing at a range.
4/10/2017: Dies returned from heat treatment
4/10/2017 Working on assembling 5 more magazines for 1000 round test.