[Slono]

Originally Posted by ILLusion

They look the same to me, website pic vs actual product. What's different about it? Manufacturers have the right to change their products through the life of the product line. This is common of any responsible manufacturer who monitors and maintains a product line. Changes are almost always functional, and if the major outlook or feature set is significantly changed, it will be advertised. ILLusion Kinetics does this as well. You have a stainless steel chamber with an o-ring, the round indicator notch and .45 ACP markings. That's generally what you paid for, and is what you got. The photo could be 5 years old, and you have a new product.

As for function, it doesn't matter if the lug divots don't line up, because:

1. The lugs in your slide are already mashed up anyways.
2. The main purpose for this swap was to pre-load the action of the barrel with a spring anyways, which completely negates the need for the slide lugs to engage the divots. Correct?

FYI, Most SD chambers I've handled come off the assembly line "dirty". It could be built up dirt attracted to dried coolant from the machining process. If you were expecting a shiny super clean product, then your expectations were unmanaged. While I wouldn't put it past Den Trinity to do something like swap in a used product, realize that Den Trinity is also the domestic distributor for Shooters Design in all of Hong Kong. If anybody has the newest version of a product, it would be them.

The lugs don't line up with the slide's lugs so the placement of the chamber is incorrect. It sits too far forward in the slide (with the lugs lined up) so there's a noticeable gap between the back of the chamber and the back of the ejection port. Secondly, the spaces between the lugs are not the same dimension as the nova chamber's lugs so it cannot sit against the top of the slide properly so it cannot sit completely flush against the top of the slide like its supposed to. You can clearly see that major fitting has to be done in order for the chamber to fit. I don't believe the lugs on my slide are broken. Perhaps worn, but not completely useless. The nova barrel lugs are able to mate with the slide's lugs which makes the slide lock properly upon return after the blowback action.