cheap cheap glock polish job on a glock and how it did.

[pvthouse]

So being that I'm on a tight budget and I want to make my glock as good as possible I decided to polish up the feed ramp and the metal in the lower reciever using nothing more than tooth-paste, q-tips, and cotton rounds. I took it out yesterday and put about 100 rounds through it. The difference was amazing. The trigger was smooth as can be and made follow up shots with my 21 a dream, as well as imrpoved my accuracy. Now make no mistake, there was nothing wrong with it to begin with. I just wanted to improve the trigger pull. How do u think I did?

 

[DonRon]

Your statement is even more amazing. First toothpaste is so low in abrasive that you would have to spent a full month of hard elbow grease to even remove the bluing on Glock feed ramp. I have never heard of any improvement is operation by taking the nickel plating of the lower receiver internal parts. Frankly the nickle against polymer is self lubricating as was the process in Glock curtain rods.

 

[twofifty]

I think you did well to polish the workings with toothpaste.
Bonus is that it put a smile on your face.

 

[harmon rabb]

Was it having problems feeding? Why bother polishing the feed ramp on a glock?

 

[blackrussian]

Next time consider buying metal polish. A tube of simichrome is not much more expensive than a tube of Colgate.

 

[pvthouse]

Yea I know but I already had the tooth paste around. But as far as the bottom reciever parts it took a long time but the triiger pull felt almost gritty and it took care of the problem. It didn't have any problems feeding but I felt like givin it a polish. I gotta say I was thinking about buying the 3.5 connector but now I don't see the need at all. All in all I would say it was well worth the time!

 

[Zerodefect]

Nothing wrong with polishing the trigger parts, but I wouldn't polish the feed ramp again.

It's a hammer forged barrel, it's allready glass smooth. (At least mine is)

I tryed the $.025 trigger job with my G23, I didn't notice anything. If you liked the way that felt wait until you try a few connectors and a comp spring kit.