I dropped hammer on an original style slide stop off of Numrich last night:
849300 Slide Stop, Early Model, Blued http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/849300.htm
Roylt did a heckuva job on his P89, installing an early extended stop. http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=213631&p=2138319&hilit=P89+mod#p2138319
The MkII stop is thin, the serrations are on the top, and the stop is short... My right thumb cannot sweep down on the current stop without rotating the pistol in my grasp -or- using my left hand... Sorta defeats the potential...
The idea came up of adding more metal stock to a current slide stop so as to enable the creation of a fuller and longer stop akin to those on a 1911. I undestand that such a stop, being larger, may snag on a holster. Got it. That is supposedly why Ruger redesigned the original stop.
The extra metal might be added via TIG, brazing, or adhesive. TIG and brazing have lots of heat, the stop is thin, gotta be careful. Adhesives just do not fill me with confidence... Let me run the slide forward... snap... ting! (as the extra metal hits the floor)...
A last possibility is machining... use screws to attach the extra metal....
As of right now, the early stop is as far as I am going to go. But for you all looking for the next thing for the P85, have at it!
849300 Slide Stop, Early Model, Blued http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/849300.htm
Roylt did a heckuva job on his P89, installing an early extended stop. http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=213631&p=2138319&hilit=P89+mod#p2138319
The MkII stop is thin, the serrations are on the top, and the stop is short... My right thumb cannot sweep down on the current stop without rotating the pistol in my grasp -or- using my left hand... Sorta defeats the potential...
The idea came up of adding more metal stock to a current slide stop so as to enable the creation of a fuller and longer stop akin to those on a 1911. I undestand that such a stop, being larger, may snag on a holster. Got it. That is supposedly why Ruger redesigned the original stop.
The extra metal might be added via TIG, brazing, or adhesive. TIG and brazing have lots of heat, the stop is thin, gotta be careful. Adhesives just do not fill me with confidence... Let me run the slide forward... snap... ting! (as the extra metal hits the floor)...
A last possibility is machining... use screws to attach the extra metal....
As of right now, the early stop is as far as I am going to go. But for you all looking for the next thing for the P85, have at it!