My first attempt at CTAC holster repair

[Kevin108]

The rear C-clip on my CompTAC CTAC, with which I carry my G26 daily, was finally showing signs of age. It's almost 2 years old now and a couple days ago I noticed the tension on it had significantly diminished and it was sort of sprung open a bit. I swapped the clips to see if I could still use it as-is up front but it still felt too lose for my taste. I have another CTAC for my G17 so I considered stealing a clip from it until I could order a new one.

Then I had another idea. Since there was nothing to lose on an unusable clip and I had 2 others in good condition I could swap in if need be, I decided to try to fix the one I had. I brought a pot of water to a good boil and put the clip in for about 15 seconds until it started to open up some more. Then I clipped a light-tension hard plastic clip for cereal bags/chip bags on to the middle of the CTAC clip to get it to close up.

So far so good. I looks like the clip returned to it's original shape and tension and is still flexible for putting it on the taking it off. I'll see how it holds up. If I have any problems, I'll post about them.

Anybody else played this game?

 

[Mastery]

I've sent CTACs back to the manufacturer. They have some of the best service you'll find...cost me shipping costs, and they've always covered it under warranty and shipped it back at their expense.

 

[Kevin108]

I got a couple of days out of it, then it broke. No big deal, I'm just going to order some of the new and improved clips to give them a try.