Hey! Take this Glock and......

[Mikej]

Taking the slide off a Glock is alot like fishing, ya just got to hold yur mouth right. I've seen Glock armorers take 3 or 4 tries to get the slide off. Even Hitchcock 45 struggles a bit sometimes.

Now that makes me feel better! I miss some easy/dumb things at times, but mostly I've got good sense and a decent functional brain in my skull.

(Full disclosure - I am a septuagenarian Glock fanboy.)

Well I wish you had been here!
I'm tellin' you, it wasn't coming OFF! And then it did. Over and over. And again, just now, just the way the videos shows it should!

 

[Member 45541]

I like Glocks!


Glad it came off for ya Mike! Every once in a while, I get a firearm that wants to be a stinker. A deep breath, and usually it all works out! Stay safe, shoot straight and Glock on!

 

[Alexx1401]

I like Glocks!


Glad it came off for ya Mike! Every once in a while, I get a firearm that wants to be a stinker. A deep breath, and usually it all works out! Stay safe, shoot straight and Glock on!

All this brings back memories of when Ruger first sent out the new MKII. Al had not yet got around to inventing the internet and the Co's first manuals did a piss poor job of explaining how it worked. Ruger must have gotten a LOT of them back in pieces from angry customers so they re did the manual and made it far better. Soon there was an after market kit to make them take down with just a wrench and of course soon video's for those who had a pistol in pieces and could not get it back together.

 

[thorborg]

Link pin on a 1911 used to tease me to stress back when I didn't need no stinking instructions.

 

[Juniper9mm]

Yeah!!! Colt sucks!!!

 

[ilikegunspdx]

You bought it at Keiths. Karma.

Could be worse though I guess. If you had bought it at the gun room it would do the same thing except springs would go flying and it would refuse to take any mags.

 

[ARFrog]

This on rare occasions happens to me with my VP9 and has happened once with my Glock 19 Gen 3 after cleaning and trying to reassemble the firearm. It appears that the recoil spring does not properly seat on its ledge and when it moves off it causes the lock-up of the slide.

On some VP9 forums there is a solution once you have eliminated possible other causes as follows:

- get yourself a pair of needle nose plyers but the kind with the 90 degree bend

- normally when this happens the Recoil Spring Assembly rod is protruding a small amount. Take a towel and put it around the protrusion. Then take the 90 degree needle nose plyers and grip the protrusion. Gently pull outward towards the front of the pistol and away from the frame. Be careful to keep hold of the towel and not allow any metal to metal or metal to plastic contact.

- when you pull outward against the spring in this manner it normally unlocks the interior binding and everything should come apart afterwards.

-once apart make sure the recoil rod is property reseated a d put it back together again.


Hope this helps. Hope more that you don't get in too much of a hurry during reassembly and that you do double check the placement of the Recoil Spring Assembly before putting things back together.

 

[ferret427]

I have an FN502 .22 pistol that sometimes the slide release lever won't rotate when trying to put the slide back on after cleaning. Easy fix, you can try jiggling the barrel back and forth while pushing the lever up. Works every time when the lever gives me issues.

 

[Mikej]

All this brings back memories of when Ruger first sent out the new MKII. Al had not yet got around to inventing the internet and the Co's first manuals did a piss poor job of explaining how it worked. Ruger must have gotten a LOT of them back in pieces from angry customers so they re did the manual and made it far better. Soon there was an after market kit to make them take down with just a wrench and of course soon video's for those who had a pistol in pieces and could not get it back together.

Those little .22 pistola's are THE "Devil"!! I'd bought a Browning Buck Mark from a member here back shortly after I joined the forum. Had t at the range and figures I'd get into it to clean it up a put a little ube in it. when i took the grips off, PARTS started falling OUT! W_T_H!? Got the stuff back where it belonged and haven't don't much with it since.
what is it with those little .22s?
There's another story I won't bother getting into. About my 3rd model Colt woodman Match Target I got from my father. He likely bough it new in 1949. Velsey fixed that one up for me.

This on rare occasions happens to me with my VP9 and has happened once with my Glock 19 Gen 3 after cleaning and trying to reassemble the firearm. It appears that the recoil spring does not properly seat on its ledge and when it moves off it causes the lock-up of the slide.

On some VP9 forums there is a solution once you have eliminated possible other causes as follows:

- get yourself a pair of needle nose plyers but the kind with the 90 degree bend

- normally when this happens the Recoil Spring Assembly rod is protruding a small amount. Take a towel and put it around the protrusion. Then take the 90 degree needle nose plyers and grip the protrusion. Gently pull outward towards the front of the pistol and away from the frame. Be careful to keep hold of the towel and not allow any metal to metal or metal to plastic contact.

- when you pull outward against the spring in this manner it normally unlocks the interior binding and everything should come apart afterwards.

-once apart make sure the recoil rod is property reseated a d put it back together again.


Hope this helps. Hope more that you don't get in too much of a hurry during reassembly and that you do double check the placement of the Recoil Spring Assembly before putting things back together.

I believe you NAILED the issue. That's all it could have been. There was a slight scratch in the metal of the rear plate of the recoil spring retainer plate. No harm done. And if it, somehow, happens again i know what needs to be done.