Did I ruin my Glock???

You should be fine. Just dont drown it in oil, you could ruin any defense ammo you have in it by deactivating the primers with the lube. Maybe thats how they clean their rentals at the gunshop, but its not a good way for you to clean your guns.

Read the manual it does explain how to clean and lube your gun in the glock manual that came with it.

You did not hurt your Glock, they are tougher than that.

In spite of the "CLP" advertising, Breakfree is mostly oil. You don't need to slather down a Glock with oil.

I clean most guns with M-Pro 7 on a bore brush for the barrel and a toothbrush for the rest. Glocks are best lubricated with an oily finger or Q-tip on the right areas.
I suggest
http://www.glocktalk.com/index.php
for specialized discussion on Glocks and their care and feeding.

Back in 1996 I bought a Glock 23 and took it out and had a great day at the range first thing. I later found out you should clean it before firing it. I just sold it last year and never had a single problem with it during all those years. I'm sure you didn't seriously hurt your gun.

As previously mentioned, a Glock just needs a light lubrication.

Hope you continue to enjoy your new gun.

Rev

It's ok not to have cleaned it. When you do, leave the bronze-colored lubricant intact; let it wear in on its own. Absolutely do not spray down the gun with CLP - lots of bad advice can be found on both sides of the counter in a gun shop! Field strip it again and look in the firing pin channel and make sure it's not oily at all - that'll attract gunk, which you do not want in that location in particular.

To get rid of general gunk, use Breakfree Powderblast or some other brand of cleaner if necessary, and then relube per the manual. You can use a very light coat to wipe the slide exterior if you'd like.

Lastly, buy the "Complete Glock Reference Guide" by Ptooma Press. You can get it various places; Lone Wolf Distributors is a good place to start.

pshaaawwww! dont listen to these pro-glockians. they have a hidden agenda.

the real answer is that yes, you did ruin your glock. it will join the other hundreds of thousands of used glocks sitting in gunstores and pawnshops across the country once you realize the error of your ways and buy a colt 1911 in .45acp. go on now! you have a gunshop to go to so you can trade off that block.

Wait a minute---you mean you're supposed to clean Glocks!!! Next thing you guys will be telling me is I am supposed to clean my AKs!



I think someone is pulling my leg...

GR

pretty hard to hurt a Glock. once I was curious and shot my Glock 19 for almost 2 years(practice as well as weekly IDPA matches)without ANY maintainance of ANY kind. still fed EVERYTHING and NEVER failed to fire. finally felt guilty enough to field strip it and check----hardly dirty! just brushed out the barrel, put some CLP on the rails/metal inserts in the reciever, lubriplate on barrel lug and where the Glock maintance video recommended and went on about my business. like I said, hard to hurt the damn things. best, DJW......P.S. have also shot THOUSANDS of rounds of LEAD bullets from it, just clean barrel carefully every 200 rounds or so to keep lead build up from causing problems.

It is toast

Send it to me and I will dispose of the parts

The only way to tell if a Glock is ruined is to look at it:

If it is ugly, then it is ruined.

I put close to 3k of rounds to (used to be) my G34 when it was new, no cleaning. The gun functioned a 100%. I sold it to a friend after a few months. I think it got >10K trouble free rounds now, and we think its just getting broken-in.

You didn't hurt it but you do need to clean it right.

Clean ALL of the breakfree out of it, BONE DRY, then oil according to the instructions. Most importantly the firing pin and channel need to be BONE DRY for best reliablility. As heavily as you oiled it you could have misfires.

The only way to tell if a Glock is ruined is to look at it: If it is ugly, then it is ruined.

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HA! Now, that's funny!

If you got lube inside the firing pin channel you should clean that out.

it's not hard to do.

Read through this sight, it will be helpful

http://www.glockfaq.com/

These guys are great for parts

http://www.glockmeister.com/

Ruin your Glock , thats one of the best chuckles i've had in a while.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=5&f=4&t=13658&page=1

Ray

Good tips from everyone (exept getting rid ot it). Nothing to add but points to ShouShu for being strong enough to ask questions. Although if you want to get rid of it -- throw it my way, I'll pay shipping

I took my Glock 30 to the range, exited the box, inserted ammo and promptly sent 300 rounds downrange.

Nothing hurt, it's still running strong 10,000 rounds later. They just "recommend" cleaning it. Like car companies recommend changing your oil (at their dealership for the inflated price) every 3000 miles.... does it really need it? Nah. Will it hurt it? Not particularly.




You don't need much CLP, just a squirt or two is enough.

On the leaking-CLP thing, I once fired an M16A2 that was sending squirts of CLP flying everywhere with every shot for a good 60 rounds before the extra went away, as the sergeant coming by spraying our rifles with a squirt wasn't paying attention on mine and gave me about 3 times as much of a squirt as he should have.... CLP all over the place.

The gun shop gave you their clean procedure for guns.. they do it this way due to the need for reduced turnaround time and the large quantities of gun. I know at one time they would just dunk it in a dunk kit..blow it out and relube. Another way is as follows:

Equipment needed:

1. Boresnake
2. Brake cleaner (non-chlorinated)
3. Breakfree CLP.
4. Wipe rag (usually lightly oiled)

Spray gun (prefereably disassembled) with CLP. CLP has the effect of floating residues off surfaces. Let soak for a minute or more, depending on your urgency. Flush parts with brake cleaner and immediately wipe with wipe rag.

Run boresnake through bore of barrel a couple of times. Using the CLP again lightly lube 'relevant' areas. Reassemble gun and you are good to go.

That said, to really see some good cleaning and lube articles for your Glock see copies of the GLock Annual 2002 and 2003.

"Did I ruin my Glock?"

How could you tell.......................

brake or carb cleaner don't by the same stuff in a way overpriced can of spray gun cleaner or whatever at the gun shop.

I won't pick on your glock they seem pretty accurate to me. They are kinda ugly though...

A bit more help for even more of a beginner if I may ask.

Just - literally minutes ago - finished first field strip and clean of my new G19 in preparation for first trip to the range tomorrow. I think I did it OK according to the not particularly detailed instructions but I have a couple questions/reassurances needed:

What exactly are the slide rails? Are they the grooves on the slide or the metal parts attached to the frame where the slide fits over (slide receiver I think from what I can tell!).

Where exactly does the important drop of lube need to go where the trigger assembly meets the connector? I can see the metal piece which connects to the trigger easy enough but it looks like it connects to about 4-5 components at the rear right of the frame.

Final question - manual seemd not to spell this out - does the barrel bore itself need lubing in any way?

For further info I used a Hoppe's kit and swabbed everything that looked dirty with solvent - including the barrel bore - which was surprisingly dirty for a brand new gun - is that normal? Took three swabs to run clean. Then I lubed in the places in the manual (I think!) but did NOT use oil in the bore. My S/W manual seems to imply I should do this but have not doen it to either gun before I checked.

By the way I don't want to appear lazy - I'm sure these answers are available on line but for some reason this site is the only firearms related one I know of that isn't blocked by the company filter so I can only get here, not Glocktalk etc.

Sorry for beginner questions but better to be safe I think!

Thanks!

Glock lubrication graphics

dmallind - check out the following link from glockmeister for lube instructions with pictures. http://glockmeister.com/glubric.shtml

I will do so this evening but unfortunately they too are blocked for me right now. Thanks for the link though - sure it will be a big help!

DM

Did I ruin my Glock

Only two things I know of will ruin your Glock or whatever is in front of it:

The unusual barrel rifling does not like lead bullets.

Keep your nose scratcher out of and away from the trigger guard unless and until you are ready to fire.