Created to ask if this is normal

K1l1J0Y · Nov 11, 2023

Hey sorry to bother you guys, I recently went to a shop in Minnesota to have my suppressor sights fitted in because my springfield was too difficult to work on my own. After the fact I too my slide off to find a bunch of chips in it. Keep in mind this gun is brand new and never shot before are these something that could've been caused by the gunsmith?

Xmark1 · Nov 11, 2023

I know that a factory new Glock has lubricant with gold flakes in it.

kmk1012 · Nov 11, 2023

Welcome here! Are you certain the gun is new?

NobullSKS · Nov 11, 2023

Wear marks (chips) in the finish…along the edges ? Could be from a fixture block or if it's from the factory….?

K1l1J0Y · Nov 11, 2023

kmk1012 said:
Welcome here! Are you certain the gun is new?

Yessir !

K1l1J0Y · Nov 11, 2023

NobullSKS said:
Wear marks (chips) in the finish…along the edges ? Could be from a fixture block or if it's from the factory….?

Fixture block? I'm sorry

K1l1J0Y · Nov 11, 2023

Xmark1 said:
I know that a factory new Glock has lubricant with gold flakes in it.

Can you elaborate

Knobgoblin · Nov 11, 2023

Could be Nasal spray.
I hear that sh!t will get you tweaked.

Curt2933 · Nov 11, 2023

Load the clip and shoot it. It's no lambo. They will get wear and tear

K1l1J0Y · Nov 11, 2023

Curt2933 said:
Load the clip and shoot it. It's no lambo. They will get wear and tear

That's the thing it had nothing to wear on

StacattoP · Nov 11, 2023

welcome to the forums! What he meant by fixture block is the thing that he used to hold the slide still while installing the sights so a vise with blocks on it ect

Member 66129 · Nov 11, 2023

K1l1J0Y said:
Hey sorry to bother you guys, I recently went to a shop in Minnesota to have my suppressor sights fitted in because my springfield was too difficult to work on my own. After the fact I too my slide off to find a bunch of chips in it. Keep in mind this gun is brand new and never shot before are these something that could've been caused by the gunsmith?

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Could you circle these so called chips?

Is that slide cerakoted?

Certaindeaf · Nov 11, 2023

K1l1J0Y said:
Hey sorry to bother you guys, I recently went to a shop in Minnesota to have my suppressor sights fitted in because my springfield was too difficult to work on my own. After the fact I too my slide off to find a bunch of chips in it. Keep in mind this gun is brand new and never shot before are these something that could've been caused by the gunsmith?

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Those just mysteriously spontaneously materialize for no reason.

Xmark1 · Nov 11, 2023

K1l1J0Y said:
Can you elaborate

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Richo877 · Nov 11, 2023

K1l1J0Y said:
Hey sorry to bother you guys, I recently went to a shop in Minnesota to have my suppressor sights fitted in because my springfield was too difficult to work on my own. After the fact I too my slide off to find a bunch of chips in it. Keep in mind this gun is brand new and never shot before are these something that could've been caused by the gunsmith?

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Hello and welcome!
I'm no gunsmith, but if I had to guess, it was probably clamped down on a workbench and the cerakote finished cracked and flaked off from the pressure while being worked on. I'm not a fan of those finishes. Did it come from the factory with the finish or was it done custom after? Maybe ask in the maintenance and gunsmithing section here