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Glock repair in the Metrowest Area?
- Thread starter Jeep4wdva
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I second this. Glocks are the easiest handguns in the world to fix, and replacing the slide stop is about the easiest repair you can do on a Glock. Push out one pin, pop the old slide stop out and spring out, pop the new one in, push the pin back in.
Easiest gun on the planet to work on, parts are readily available as are thousands of TY videos.
The option of sending it back to GA is a great service it comes back minty fresh with all new internals.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFXGqBA8VU
The option of sending it back to GA is a great service it comes back minty fresh with all new internals.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpFXGqBA8VU
It doesn't work like that. Can be done with UPS or Fedex but not USPS. USPS only moves handguns from an FFL with the correct paperwork done.
ETA: if you haven't tried to ship a handgun recently you will soon discover 999/1000 times it's easier to just pay an FFL to do it for you as a logged repair.
You can swap out the slide release in one minute with nothing more than a punch. And new slide releases cost less than shipping a gun.
What problem are you having? The cause could be the slide stop or the magazine follower.
What problem are you having? The cause could be the slide stop or the magazine follower.
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First thing I do on my 17's are an extended slide release, new night sights and extended mag release of some type on the Gen 3. I think the whole process takes 15 mins.
2 mins of that is the slide release in which all you need to do is push the biggest pin out 1/3 of the way pull the old, install the new. and push pin back in.
Realistically if you can't rip apart a glock upper and lower down to empty frame and slide....with all the UT videos out there.....you gotta be functionally challenged somewhere its so easy.
Any gun dealer that can't do this, shouldn't really be a gun dealer.
2 mins of that is the slide release in which all you need to do is push the biggest pin out 1/3 of the way pull the old, install the new. and push pin back in.
Realistically if you can't rip apart a glock upper and lower down to empty frame and slide....with all the UT videos out there.....you gotta be functionally challenged somewhere its so easy.
Any gun dealer that can't do this, shouldn't really be a gun dealer.
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Thanks for the info and for asking: the slide doesn’t lock back when the magazine is empty. I’ve heard variably it’s the magazine or the spring, but I know it’s not my small hands on the slide release. Thoughts?
That is unlikely to be the slide stop. It is more likely to be the magazines. Does it happen on multiple magazines? Are the magazines new? What kind of magazines are you using? Number your magazines (for example, with a Sharpie) so that you know which magazine(s) has the problem.
Typically, I would replace the mag follower and mag springs.
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The slide stop is engaged by the follower pushing up on the slide stop. So if you have a worn follower or if the magazine spring isn’t strong enough to push the follower up strongly enough to engage the slide stop, then you can get a failure to lock open.
Disassembling Glock magazines can be a pain in the butt.
You can always swap out the slide stop, that is cheap and easy to do, but is unlikely to fix the problem.
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This....might be the mags unless it does it with all of them and new ones.That is unlikely to be the slide stop. It is more likely to be the magazines. Does it happen on multiple magazines? Are the magazines new? What kind of magazines are you using? Number your magazines (for example, with a Sharpie) so that you which magazine(s) has the problem.
Typically, I would replace the mag follower and mag springs.
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The slide stop is engaged by the follower pushing up on the slide stop. So if you have a worn follower or if the magazine spring isn’t strong enough to push the follower up strongly enough to engage the slide stop, then you can get a failure to lock open.
Disassembling Glock magazines can be a pain in the butt.
You can always swap out the slide stop, that is cheap and easy to do, but is unlikely to fix the problem.
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You can buy a glock toolkit for the front sight, pin punch and a mag floorplate remover on Amazon for like 8 bucks.
I had some new Glock mags that had weak springs from the factory. I replaced the springs.
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How old of a Glock? I have an old Gen 2 G19 that would not lock back after the last round. Tried multiple mags and still no go. If I manually cycled the slide back on an empty mag it would stay locked back but not after firing the last round. Went to a gun store that had a Glock armorer there and he was kind of stumped as he also tried different mags in it and pulled the slide back very quickly and let go to simulate firing the last round and it wouldn't stay back. Finally he wound up changing the trigger pin as this was a 2 pin G19. Low and behold that was the issue.
Actually, it sort of sounds like you may be “limp wristing” the gun when you are shooting it. Does it happen with all your mags or only one specific mag? Don't take this personally, but how experienced of a shooter are you? Have you tried letting someone else shoot the gun to see if it still happens? Is the gun stock, or did you change out any parts? Is it factory ammo, or someone’s reloads? In general, problems like this are almost never the gun. It’s almost always the shooter, or sometimes a magazine issue. A little more detail would help resolve it. Whereabouts are you located?
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Trigger pin holds the slide release in and if something is wonky there binding the slide release or its little spring from popping the release up..... I could see it not locking back.
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Yeah this gen 2 is about as close to a gen 1 G19 as you can get (it was the 346 G19 imported into the US) so I’m sure it was worn enough as we swapped another trigger pin in and that did it. But we tried a bunch of different magazines thinking that was most likely the culprit.
