Originally Posted by
LHS
To clarify, when I finally (months after the quoted lead time) got the slide back, the safety/decocker lever would get stuck in the 'safe' position because the detent spring hole was drilled off-center. When I pointed this out, his reply was that "Oh, I never fully depress the decocker so I didn't notice it". Then he sent me a new slide with what he swore was good work, but it had the exact same problem (hell it may have been the same slide, for all I know). At that point, he knew the issue with the prior one, and he knew I knew, but he sent me the same garbage and expected me to believe it was fine. I found that rather insulting.
All he had to do was be honest with me. If he'd said up front that he'd drilled the initial hole wrong, and had to re-weld/re-drill or whatever, I'd have been "OK, that sucks, but this is a one-off and there will inevitably be some teething issues". But no, he had to duck and dodge and lie about it, which puts him squarely in my NFE list.