Starting a rebuild of my Polymer 80 PF940SC tomorrow.

[carbuncle]

So...I built one P80 that is 100% reliable, dead nuts accurate and super fun to shoot: a PF940C with a P80 complete slide. Great gun. For my second, I went with the G26/SC model, which is known to be more difficult and finnicky to build. Well, the build went well, she operates administratively perfectly with snap caps and without, but with live ammo she's a jammomatic. Like hot Hollywood actress, she's great to look at, but a trainwreck in real life.

I used a budget P80 Builder branded LPK for this one, which yielded a difficult assembly of the trigger group, a weird-looking ejector and a trigger pull that is optimistically about 12#. Back to the drawing board with some OEM and Wilson parts, we'll see if we can turn this girl's frown upside down:

 

[carbuncle]

She's at 98% now, per my other post, after a rebuild. Now it's clean and shoot on every range trip to break it in.

 

[akma]

@carbuncle Glad to see you got it running. What was the solution? I've heard they like factory internals, nothing fancy.

 

[carbuncle]

@carbuncle Glad to see you got it running. What was the solution? I've heard they like factory internals, nothing fancy.

I was using a cheap LPK, replaced everything with Wilson parts and an OEM trigger housing, runs great now!

 

[Romokid]

Yeah I had a P80 that would hang up, double and triple checked all the areas that I removed material. Finally swapped the no-name recoil spring assembly for a Glock one and no more problems.
The biggest issue was trying to get OEM parts back when I was building it. Now they are a little more prevalent.

 

[paul73]

ymmv - but 2 last builds that i did using aimsurplus parts for slides do work just fine.

 

[akma]

Yeah I had a P80 that would hang up, double and triple checked all the areas that I removed material. Finally swapped the no-name recoil spring assembly for a Glock one and no more problems.
The biggest issue was trying to get OEM parts back when I was building it. Now they are a little more prevalent.

From what I remember they specifically recommend factory internal parts in their builds.

 

[drgrant]

Clean and shoot every time? why not just shoot the piss out of it. That is my shakedown for every glock I get pretty much.... it better go 500+ with no issue. I wipe the front sight off and truck on.

 

[drgrant]

Yeah I had a P80 that would hang up, double and triple checked all the areas that I removed material. Finally swapped the no-name recoil spring assembly for a Glock one and no more problems.
The biggest issue was trying to get OEM parts back when I was building it. Now they are a little more prevalent.

A lot of aftermarket glock parts are garbage and there seems to be more producers of that garbage grade shit after P80 became a thing.

 

[Romokid]

From what I remember they specifically recommend factory internal parts in their builds.

To be honest I didn’t read what they recommended for their builds. I tried to buy Glock factory but just about every place was out of stock so at that point I had to make do with what was available. Since then I have been able to source factory parts when I’ve had any issue but other than the RSA I s been pretty good.

 

[OMM 0000]

100% random Glock parts can be garbage. My P80 builds took 500 rounds to wear in and a few diff combos of eBay and Brownells parts to dial in. I really like ebay seller Hooper Gun Works. Cant go wrong with Brownells. Had bad luck with Swenson. Don’t expect to do it right for much less than ~$1k all said and done. I have a box of 2-3 additional G19s worth of parts. They are so fun but no where near turn key!

Edit: incl Trijicon sights

 

[carbuncle]

Clean and shoot every time? why not just shoot the piss out of it. That is my shakedown for every glock I get pretty much.... it better go 500+ with no issue. I wipe the front sight off and truck on.

That's the plan, lots of shooting, lots of dry fire, then lots more shooting.

 

[carbuncle]

To be honest I didn’t read what they recommended for their builds. I tried to buy Glock factory but just about every place was out of stock so at that point I had to make do with what was available. Since then I have been able to source factory parts when I’ve had any issue but other than the RSA I s been pretty good.

Their instructions are for shit, and I've never seen them recommend anything other their their own parts.