Kimber Eclipse Custom II 10mm -- anybody seeing them?

Retired Squid · August 07 2013 10:06:04 AM MDT

For those not owning Dan Wesson 1911's of recent years, they use the original rounded radius on their FPS shown on left in image below and not the tapper one that Colt and others use on the right.

Was looking at my new model Colt DE last night and could not believe the quality difference of the DW over the DE is astounding.

Intercooler · August 07 2013 10:59:31 AM MDT

I have a picture I will dig up of mine. You saying the DW doesn't need a new block?

Intercooler · August 07 2013 11:08:29 AM MDT

Here was my attempt with it and picture. The factory block is angled which might not show in the picture.

http://10mm-firearms.com/gunsmithing/the-egw-flat-bottom-firing-pin-block-i-purchased-for-my-dan-wesson-didn't-fit/msg1409/#msg1409

Retired Squid · August 07 2013 11:10:30 AM MDT

I will have to get a picture of mine tonight or tomorrow.

Intercooler · August 07 2013 11:56:01 AM MDT

EGW told me they make them for DW in 2014. They are flat.

Retired Squid · August 07 2013 01:16:13 PM MDT

Well since it's 2013......

DW may get them from EGW then radius them. I just know mine is like pre-1918 guns, not flat and not the long bevel.

Intercooler · August 08 2013 05:48:17 PM MDT

My block will be here Friday and I will snap a couple pictures of both again. I'm putting in a 20lb flat coil spring too.

Retired Squid · August 08 2013 06:21:32 PM MDT

I was mowing yard yesterday and stepped into a damn mole hole and fell, screwed up my day yesterday and today. Will see if I can get pictures tonight maybe, if not Sunday will be soonest I can break out the Nikon.

MCQUADE · August 08 2013 07:30:13 PM MDT

RS, hope you are all good, on Memorial Day I fell in my garden, tripped on my perimeter deer netting. I fractured my knee in two spots but I'm back to work now. Hell, I would have enjoyed the vacation but it rained all but 3 or 4 days. I did shoot some varmints though. ${$default_grin_smiley}$

Retired Squid · August 08 2013 09:11:51 PM MDT

Quote from: MCQUADE on August 08 2013 07:30:13 PM MDT
RS, hope you are all good, on Memorial Day I fell in my garden, tripped on my perimeter deer netting. I fractured my knee in two spots but I'm back to work now. Hell, I would have enjoyed the vacation but it rained all but 3 or 4 days. I did shoot some varmints though. ${$default_grin_smiley}$

At 68 falls that were funny 30 years ago can be very serious to life threatening. ${$default_shocked_smiley}$ Got a couple sore spots, but due to all the rain here my Zoysia grass was about 6" deep and it that really reduced the impact. ${$default_grin_smiley}$

Sounds like if not for bad luck, you would have no luck at all. ${$default_cheesy_smiley}$

DAVIDF · August 09 2013 03:21:52 PM MDT

I tell my wife the same thing. We are in are early 50's. But she races around so fast & spastically that I'm worried if she continues doing this when she is 70 there will be some major accidents! I keep telling her to slow down & move precise. She slow down & is still a spaz ${$default_roll_eyes_smiley}$

Retired Squid · August 09 2013 03:42:18 PM MDT

I hope she doesn't read this forum....or you're dead man walking ${$default_wink_smiley}$

REDLINE · August 09 2013 06:09:07 PM MDT

Quote from: DAVIDF on August 09 2013 03:21:52 PM MDT
I tell my wife the same thing. We are in are early 50's. But she races around so fast & spastically that I'm worried if she continues doing this when she is 70 there will be some major accidents! I keep telling her to slow down & move precise. She slow down & is still a spaz ${$default_roll_eyes_smiley}$

Or just maybe her reading these posts would help it sink in sooner than later before it's too late and worse does come to worse.

I hear what you're saying DAVIDF. I've seen this type of bad practice in action. Mostly my Mom. Too often hurriedly doing stuff. She was trying to get a bunch of backyard work done too quickly, hurried up the ladder to prune some branches from a tree, missed a step and and came back down like a ton of bricks that never had a ladder under them. Luckily she wasn't hanging onto her chainsaw at the time. That was a partial day in the hospital and afterward another month at home in pain(s). Last year while work was being done on her house some of the kitchen floor boards were removed. And while trying to accomplish whatever, she stepped where there was no floor, and I expect the rest is self-explanatory. Luckily that was one area where there wasn't a full basement underneath. I think she broke 2 ribs on that fall, and luckily that's all she broke. Then there was the time.... Anyway, she never learns. Makes me wonder if the older = wiser thing is a myth.

spaniel · February 24 2014 04:10:35 PM MST

Update -- I got the call this afternoon, my gun has arrived at my LGS. So, just shy of 21 months from order. I sure hope it lives up to the hype....lesson learned, I'm not going to order a Kimber again. Buy off-the-rack only.

I'll pick it up tomorrow, run a couple boxes of rounds through it stock to check function, then add the magwell and springs I've had sitting in a box for over a year now. I also have the firing pin stop recommended in this thread in that box, thanks again and I'll be fitting that too.

spaniel · February 27 2014 06:52:23 PM MST

Fired three mags, the Kimber mag and two Tripp mags. A fail to feed on each one, but I blame the wide hollowpoint 155gr hand loads. They just didn't want to climb the ramp. Not much taper on the front of them to pop them up towards the chamber.

Installed Kimber MSH/magwell, 20# recoil spring, and EGW flat-bottom firing pin stop. Someone told me it would be a Series 70 of course it is 80, so I had the wrong one. An hour with a dremel and file and I made the firing pin stop into an 80. ${$default_cheesy_smiley}$ Significant difference in racking, we'll see how it shoots. I was shooting a box sitting on a crushed rock driveway; the violence in impact of the bullets vs the same bullets out of my 40SW was impressive.