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I am going to send my slide/gun to Glock and see if they will replace the slide. It is out of spec -- the extractor has insufficient contact with certain cases, resulting in poor/no contact with the ejector. Roughly a stoppage every few hundred rounds. I swapped in known extractor components and it is only this slide.
I would just dump it (GEN4 17) but don't want to stick someone else with it. Aftermarket slides cost more than a new gun.
Wish me luck.
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I'm sure Glock will make it right, might be worth having a certified armorer take a peek before you send it off too
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If Glock won't make it right then I guess the aftermarket slide might be the only route. On the plus side some of those aftermarket slides are pretty nice. Primary Weapons System's slide evidently also has the added benefit of making the stock trigger pull much better. Can even be had with Trijicon HD's already installed.
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Yes crossing fingers, otherwise expensive fix to get a proper working pistol. Will send them a bunch of cases so they can see the difference in extractor retention.
Coal Dragger I like their front serrations but they are Gen 3 slides only I think.
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Doh! Reading comprehension owned me again. Sorry.
I'd be surprised if Glock doesn't make it right though.
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I wish we could just buy a complete slide/upper.
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http://www.glockmeister.com/Complete...partments/106/Originally Posted by snakyjake
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Good luck! I believe that Glock has been hesitant to acknowledge the out-of-spec slide/tolerance stacking problem (if that is, in fact, the cause of these malfunction/BTF issues--I suspect it is, but I'm far from an expert). Hopefully user Psalms144.1 will chime in at some point--IRRC he had 4 or 5 Gen. 4 19s go back to the factory, with a couple of them being "hand-picked" replacements. He might be able to steer you through the process on what has worked and what hasn't.
Have you looked at an Apex fix? That is another option.
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I decided against sending it to Glock. There is no way it will stovepipe for them without putting hundreds of rounds through it. I don't find it realistic to ask them to fix it when it will likely run fine for them. This was probably why I never sent it in when I first bought it...
I just took a small pile of factory extractors and installed the one that felt tightest on the cases. I will bring the gun with me one day this week. Unless it shits the bed on the first couple hundred rounds I'll leave it there I guess.
I would need to contact Apex to see if they have changed the design since the prototypes/first run. Or for custom fitment. Without it the proto/first run doesn't work because of the out of spec slide. It is actually appeart to work ...the gun ejects better with almost every round! but over the course of the day I realized the problem ones (smallest cases) actually behave worse because of the different extractor geometry.
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Their current extractors have a fitting pad that can be filed down to adjust the tension and accout for variancies in slide dimensions
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