Galling?

[Molonlabe]

Hi all,

I'm really looking at the matte stainless 75B...anyone know if there have been any issues with galling? 

Thanks

[Molonlabe]

No one?  So I take it there is not a problem?  I hope not as I plan to get a matte model when I can find one.

[SDDLUP]

Zero problems so far! I don't have thousands of rounds through my Stainless yet, and I keep it well lubed, but I haven't had any problems. The slide and frame are probably hardened a little differently to prevent galling, I have absolutely nothing to back that up, just speculating.

[phrozenlikwid]

No problems here when I had one.

I myself wouldn't worry about it......  How many stainless 1911's do you see running around with high round counts?

[kenbo1776]

 Back in the early days of the stainless steel pistols galling was sometimes a problem . But we are talking the late 70's and early 80's. Since then there have been many inprovments in metalurgy and most of those problems have been solved. I started to use  something called RIG back then since it claimed to work well with stainless steel . Its a fairly heavy grease so you dont use very much,and since I live in California, there has never been an issue with it getting to cold and slowing down the action. I also use small amounts of other silicone lubes that are much thinner . I probably tend to overlube slightly, but as long as the bore is not full of oil when I start to shoot I dont worry.