[brownie]

Okay, picked it up, some initial observations at the shop.

1. Covered in oil, including the firing pin channel.
2. Seemed a little gritty on the cycling. Slide to frame fit, a very little play when in battery, very little.

Got it home and field stripped, observations.

1. The series 80 fp block was different but not all that much trouble to depress and remove the firing pin. Soaked in oil, the spring is very tight in the channel. FP is a 38 super pin [ most all come that way today, not unexpected ] I may swap out for the 45 pin.
2. Barrel bushing was TIGHT in the slide, almost needed to go get the bushing wrench. Bushing was as tight on the barrel.
3. Break cleaner douche of parts, fp channel
4. Gun slick applied
5. Back together, the series 80 plunger took some figuring out how to depress it and depress the fp back into the channel at the same time.
6. Running the slide manually letting the gun slick get worked throughout the rails, in just several cycles, I could hear and feel the slide gliding much smoother on the rails.
7. Loaded 3 mags with 230 ball for feed testing. Flawless feeding and ejection on all three.

The throat on the feed ramp is quite wide and opened up to accept HP's, not mirror finished, but a LOT better than I expected from this one. Really happy to be back to the old slab sides with minimal ww2 fixed sights that I carried professionally for decades. Tomorrow I may get to the range, but range report to follow. Based on what I felt on feeding and seeing their extraction, this one will likely run very well.

More to follow, thanks for the remarks guys