[ranburr]

Very simple and you won't break anything. Do your field strip. Then take your slide. Push in on the firing pin and slide the FP stop down. Make sure to keep your thumb in the way so the firing pin doesn't fly out. Remove the the FP and spring. The FP stop also hold the extractor in place. You will see a slot on the right side. Insert a small screwdriver or the firing pin and use it to pull out the extractor. Your slide is now completely stripped. Take the frame and look for the pin found at the base of your mainspring housing. Make sure that your hammer is in the forward, non-cocked position. Knock out the pin holding the MSH in place and slide the housing down and off the frame. Take the MSH and push down on the little plunger inside the top off the housing. Simoultaneously pushing out the tiny pin from the backside of the housing. Be careful, it is under a lot of spring tension. Dump out the contentst. Your MSH is now stripped. Now, hold the frame as if you were going to shoot the pistol. Take and pull/wiggle your thumb safety free. Your hammer will be in the cocked position. Be careful that when you remove the thumb safety that you don't let the plunger tube spring shoot out. Once the thumb safety is removed, you can now remove the grip safety. Once it is out of the way simply pull out the sear spring. If it is not already out, remove the spring from the plunger tube. Now push out the frame pins that are holding the hammer, sear and disconnect. Those parts should pretty much fall out once the pins are removed. Now, get a small flat head screwdriver. Turn the little screw on the right side of the mag release. You must do this while at the same time slightly engaging the mag release. It will then drop right out. Once the mag release is out, the trigger will slide right out the back of the frame. You have now completely stripped your 1911.