Originally Posted by
5MadFarmers
Wasted post but I'm going to do it anyway.
I read your post. As I digested it my first thought was "M-1911 collectors are crazy." Not a little crazy either. "Lock in padded cells, outfitted in tight bound long sleeve white coats, and feed through the doggie door" crazy. Then I remembered this is the M-1911 board so your post is probably normal. For this board.
Brushes? You're trying to figure out specifically what brass brushes are WW2. Ok, I get wanting the WW1 kits to have the bristle brushes and the WW2 ones to have brass. But distinguishing which brass? That's the part that struck me. That's insane.
I mentioned it to the wife. Told her M-1911 collectors are nuts. Keep medicated 24/7 nuts. She laughed at me.
WW1 kits I have.
WW2 kits I have.
WW1 and WW2 kits rebuilt in the 1950s I have.
The Climax kits I have I've been stuffing with nothing but the O'Hare rods. The other WW2 kits are getting the other WW2 rods. Except some of those kits are getting post-WW2 rods.
The WW1 kits are getting nothing but blued screwdrivers.
The WW2 kits are getting Stanley and Metglas tools.
But I'm not nuts. I'm not trying to determine which brass brush is right.
I have a box of them. WW2 manufacture. Brushes for the M-1911 cleaning kits. Unopened. In there would be the answer. I'm not going to open though. Why not? It's unopened for gob's sake. Opening it would result in me not having an unopened box of them.
But I'm not the crazy one....