Detail Strip

[Jeff S.]

I went shooting yesterday with my G17. I've had her now for 5-6 years, and I've put at least 5,000 rounds through her.

At home, I got an itch to do a really thorough cleaning. I decided to take my G17 completely apart (my first time). I was actually just going to do the slide, but taking it apart was extremely easy. I used various internet sites, that I found here on GT, as guides. Putting the top back together was easy too.

Detail stripping the slide was so easy that I figured I ought to do the receiver as well. Taking the receiver apart wasn't too difficult. However, putting the receiver back together proved to be quite the pain for me. It was pretty frustrating. I managed to do it, though.

I wanted to start a new thread out of shear pride. It passed all safety/function tests when I had her back together.


BTW, I can't believe how much crude was in the tight places. I take immaculate care of my weapons. My lady friend makes fun of me for the time I spend on maintaining my weapons. I learned that you can only clean so much with basic field stripping. After cleaning every, EVERY nick-and-cranny the gun felt much smoother. I swear the trigger feels better. Also, it rattles more now. I guess the small parts aren't bound by crude any longer.

I feel much closer to my Glock now, and I'm even more impressed with its reliability. It has never jammed on me, even with all that crude filling it up.

[Bren]

I do the same ever so often. It does feel good to have a spotless clean Glock and I can actually do a complete disassembly and cleaning faster than I can do a field strip and cleaning, since there aren't so many parts in the way. Before the class I went to last week I took mine apart and tried cleaning it with Simple Green and water, like the AGI video suggests, but I'm a lot more impressed with dish soap and water.

[outsider0506]

I just detail stripped my G19. As you mentioned it was easier than I thought. I did follow the instructions from the Unofficial Glock Armorer's Manual, and it was a breeze! I used Gun Scrub on each piece and did the trigger safety check.

I had fired about 2000 rounds through it about 12 years ago, and just recently fired about 600-700 rounds, so there was a lot of build up. Oil was everywhere... I guess I need to use less oil! Now it looks like new, both inside and out. I haven't fired it yet, but I can already tell the trigger feels less "sticky".

[Dolomite]

I've never cleaned my 9mm magazines.

A couple of the mags are over 15 years old.

I've never even so much as taken them apart.

If they fall in the mud during a match (I should say "when") - I'll set that mag aside and when I get home I'll run it under the faucet until dirt stops coming out. Then it's air dry time. I might wipe the feed lips with a dirty oil rag if one's handy.

The base pads look like a pitbull puppy been using them to work out some aggression issues.

SOME day I'll clean them - I've got a pack of Wolff replacement springs sitting around somewhere that I bought years ago with the intent of putting them in the older mags, but you know how it goes.

Between my 17 & 34 I'm figuring those mags (I think I have around a dozen of them) have fed somewhere well over 20 - 30K rounds without a single problem. NOT ONE SINGLE PROBLEM.

I don't consider myself lucky - it's just that I have good taste in handguns.

Dirty Glocks work - Glocks that I've taken all the way down, cleaned, and put back together have also worked - but I know a dirty Glock is going to work.