TB 9-1005-317-23
8. Warranty Control Office Responsibilities. Warranty control
offices are established at the Intermediate General Support/Director
of Industrial Operations level or equivalent. These offices serve as
the intermediary between the user and AMCCOM, the contract administra-
tor. All warranty claim actions will be processed through the respec-
tive organization's warranty control office.
9. Alterations/M odifications.
Unauthorized alterations or modifica-
tions shall not be made. These will void the warranty.
Performance Specifications.
a. Magazine and Magazine Catch: The magazine shall be free of
dents, cracks, sharp edges, and other defects which may affect func-
tioning of either the magazine or the pistol. The magazine follower
and the magazine catch shall function without binding throughout their
full range of travel under spring action. The magazine shall fit in
the receiver and shall be positively retained in place by the magazine
catch. When the last round is fired, the magazine follower shall
automatically position the slide stop to engage in the slide. When
the magazine catch is depressed, it shall disengage the magazine and
the magazine shall drop out of the receiver of its own weight.
b. Disassembly Lever: The disassembly button shall be spring
loaded to retain the disassembly lever in its horizontal (locked)
position.
Manually depressing the disassembly button shall allow the
disassembly lever to be rotated to the vertical (unlocked) position.
Both the button and the lever shall move throughout their full ranges
of travel without binding. When the lever is in the horizontal
position, the slide shall be securely retained on the receiver.
Rotating the lever to the vertical position shall allow the slide to
be removed from the receiver.
c. Slide: The slide shall function without binding through its
full range of travel on the receiver guideways.
d. Barrel: The barrel shall be free of cracks and seams. The
chromium plating shall be free of nodules, flaking, pits, stripping,
anode burns, and evidence of etched base steel.
e. Locking Block: The locking block plunger shall move into the
locked and unlocked positions when the pistol is function fired or
manually operated. The locking block and locking block plunger shall
move throughout their full ranges of travel without binding. The
locking block plunger spring pin shall not protrude through either
side of the barrel.
f. Sights: The rear sight shall be fastened securely to the
slide so that there shall be no relative movement. Both sights shall
be free of mutilation or deformation.
Decocking/ Safety Lever: The decocking/safety lever and trigger
g.
bar detent shall function without binding throughout their full ranges
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