MuPPeT_ON_TouR
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My 1 year old Beretta SP1 having only fired 350 carts has the plating flaking off the receiver.
(First off sorry to anybody who is on Pigeon Watch and has seen this, I'm trying to find as many people as possible who have the fault or who can give advice)
Yes I know that this section will show signs of wear, and by wear I mean rubbing marks like smoothed shinny streaks to the metal but as yet nobody has been able to say that I should expect plating to flake off and nobody has been able to tell me that the rest of the plating will be fine.
It might be easier to follow this link to the other forum and read what I've already put up.
http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/topic/258935-beretta-sp1-fallin-to-bits/
At first GMK said they can sort it, now they want to remove the plating from both knuckles with no assurances that this will sort the fault for good. They then told me it is my fault but they can send it to Italy for 6-9 months to get re-plated.
They told me it was because of no Lube or debris in the joint and after I rubbished both of these scenarios they haven't gotten back to me although it has only been 1 day so far,
I think I have found 2 other people who have a similar issue, one of which has fired less than 100 carts.
As it stands at the moment I believe the damage has been caused because the plating is stupidly thin in this area, the rubbing between the fore end and receiver has crushed the plating and caused it to lift off the base metal, I fear it will only get worse over time and possibly effect the engraved sides.
Any advice, comments or others with a similar problem would be much appreciated as GMK have not been much help as of yet and I don't want to lose my gun for 6-9 months.
(First off sorry to anybody who is on Pigeon Watch and has seen this, I'm trying to find as many people as possible who have the fault or who can give advice)
Yes I know that this section will show signs of wear, and by wear I mean rubbing marks like smoothed shinny streaks to the metal but as yet nobody has been able to say that I should expect plating to flake off and nobody has been able to tell me that the rest of the plating will be fine.
It might be easier to follow this link to the other forum and read what I've already put up.
http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/topic/258935-beretta-sp1-fallin-to-bits/
At first GMK said they can sort it, now they want to remove the plating from both knuckles with no assurances that this will sort the fault for good. They then told me it is my fault but they can send it to Italy for 6-9 months to get re-plated.
They told me it was because of no Lube or debris in the joint and after I rubbished both of these scenarios they haven't gotten back to me although it has only been 1 day so far,
I think I have found 2 other people who have a similar issue, one of which has fired less than 100 carts.
As it stands at the moment I believe the damage has been caused because the plating is stupidly thin in this area, the rubbing between the fore end and receiver has crushed the plating and caused it to lift off the base metal, I fear it will only get worse over time and possibly effect the engraved sides.
Any advice, comments or others with a similar problem would be much appreciated as GMK have not been much help as of yet and I don't want to lose my gun for 6-9 months.
