repair of warped floorplate
I have seen several questions regarding this problem. I recently (yesterday) decided to see what I could do with a GH that I have where the dolls head on the floorplate was proud of the frame when the rest of the foorplate was flush. I had in the past hit it with rubber mallet with no effect. Yesterday I made sure that the edge of floorplate and frame were clean and well lubricated. I also made sure that the rest of the floorplate was flush and that all screws were tight. I put blue plastic painters tape on the jaws of my work vise to keep them from scratching the frame. I placed the frame in the vice so that one jaw was flat against the water table and the other jaw went across the proud dolls head on the floorplate( obviously I needed to orient the jaws so as to avoid the extractor spur. I slowly and carefully tightened the vise and as I increase pressure from vise I tightened the two floorplate screws closest to the dolls head. The dolls head was covered by the vise jaws so I removed the frame and checked how things were going a couple of times since I was scared to put too much pressure at once. Tightening the screws while the frame was still under pressure kept the frame from springing back (although I didnt experiment to see if that was necessary). Anyway it worked perfectly and didnt seem to do any damage. I would say that this was a floorplate that was damaged by improper removal
I have also seen floorplates that were warped by re case coloring and I dont know how it will work in those cases. Also keep in mind Im not a professional gunsmith and have performed this proceedure once successfully so I relate this as a personal experience and dont advocate it as a proven technique.
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