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Originally Posted by ILLusion
I find the Hurricane kits to be machined quite inconsistently...[cut!]...YMMV
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Hey thanks for the reply! :P
Yeah I think I have the same situation as the 4 Custom Covert II kits you had. I think I've nailed the problem down to the barrel lug closest to the ejection port on the slide (so the rear one). When the magazine is inserted the barrel assembly rubs against that part leading to jams when the gun is fired. Interestingly enough I got a Custom Covert II kit for my friend after he got mesmerised with my SIS one and the barrel included in that kit jammed worst than the one I had for my SIS. The Covert II barrel jammed as soon as I inserted a magazine; my SIS barrel still allowed me to cycle the slide manually with the magazine inserted.
As for more information about my experience with the Custom Covert II kit I tried helping my friend fit today (to those who are interested in getting one themselves); the lower internal frame assembly is a very tight fit into the lower tan frame. I had to practically place the frame upside down on a table and push the lower tan frame down onto it to get it to fit. Pulling the internal frame assembly out was a bitch to do but it's possible without tools.
The Kimber Custom Covert II kit includes a weaker spring for the slide lock and thumb safety pins; this was NOT required for my SIS kit as it made my thumb safety lose the positive 'click' when I push it to safe, but it is required for the Covert because the slide lock seem to be a tad bit longer; leading to too much pressure on the slide lock pin when I used the original marui spring.
The laser grip that comes with the Covert is NOT a Silverback one. I had a Silverback laser grip before and the grip was fat as hell and the build quality is not as good as the one that Hurricane made. The Covert one is much slimmer; even slimmer than my SIS grips (the SIS grips are like the marui grips interestingly, it comes with the internal weights and the grip is made of plastic, not wood) and the laser was quite strong. I can shoot the laser out a dirty-ish window and still aim all the way up some 5-7 floors from my room in my apartment. The batteries are placed on one side of the Silverback laser grip if I remember correctly and the Covert one is one both sides. The way the batteries lock into the grip is more secure (IMO) on the Covert than the Silverback laser grip.
My friend and I filed the blowback housing far more than what I had done for my SIS and it still got stuck when we placed it on the rails of the completed lower frame on the Covert. The lower frame can be described as a 'drop-in' fit but honestly it's more like a 'frustrated-push-everything-in-together-really-hard' fit. The slide assembly is very problematic and my friend is bringing it to a retail shop gun smith to fix when he's got the appropriate tools and experience to do so (I only had 1 metal file to work with today although that was sufficient for my SIS).
Lastly; the Covert comes with the half-piece of a thumb safety to turn the original MEU ambi-safety to a single sided safety. It locks into the frame by way of an o-ring, so it's friction fit. That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen as the o-ring is bigger than the hole the piece is meant to fit in; and if the o-ring size was not right or the hole where the thumb safety goes into is too big the imitation piece falls right out. I got too sick of trying to fit that stupid piece in so I left the Covert II with the ambi safety for my friend right now.
If possible, do you mind telling me whether I diagnose the problem correctly with the slide? If I (well I'm getting a gun smith to do it as I dont have the right tools) file down the rear barrel lug the included chrome Hurricane barrel should work fine, correct? Anyway Brian, thanks for the advice again!
