Sending your Glock in for a tune up

[gym]

Chargeable Items
Frame upgrade Small Frame $150+ tax Large Frame $155 + Tax
Refinishing Slide $45 Barrel $ 20 Both $60
Sights Glock Night Sights $57+tax Trijicon Nights $72+tax Glock Steel Sights $20+tax
Method of payment for chargeable items should accompany your order. Payment can be made by check, money order, Visa, MasterCard, or Discover. When using check or money order be sure to include applicable sales tax.(sales tax is charged at the rate normally applied at the customer’s location.) If you choose to use a credit card you will be contacted by telephone for your card information.
They will totally check and replace all parts in the weapon, for free, I have the entire PDF if any of you guys want to mail your gun in for a check up and have worn parts replaced, the charge for refinshing is above, very inexpensive. I am removing my Night sight, the front only, and having new ones put on, thus a new gun will return after 16 years.
I think it's estremlly reasonable for what you are getting, I spoke to "DAN" today, and he tole me "lead time" is 6-8 weeks out. I was also told that the tennifer finish is not used, the gun will be sent out and blued. So be aware of that if it's important to you.
Turn Around
Turn around is between two and four weeks from date of receipt. However, turn around time is subject to change without notice.
Please note: Refinishing services will add approximately two weeks to turn around time.
Non Standard Parts
Please remove all non standard parts except sights before shipping. All firearms will be returned containing factory original parts only. Glock Inc, will not guarantee the return of after market parts with the exception of sights. OEM parts that have been modified by polishing or otherwise will not be returned.

 

[hentown]

Glock's "finish" has never been Tenifer. The finish has always been some kind of black phosphate/parkerizing-like finish. Paying for a frame upgrade depends on with whom you're dealing. One of their Techs graciously upgraded my 2nd Gen G17 frame to a 3rd gen for $43.

Unless there's a cracked slide or frame or KB, I can't imagine paying next-day shipping prices to send one of my Glocks to Smyrna for service.

 

[jmr40]

I live about an hour from Glock headquarters in Smyrna. Three years ago I packed up 6 Glock pistols belonging to me, my brother and a friend and took them straight to the door. Dropped them off and drove over to Bass Pro Shops for a while then ate lunch. Came back after lunch, paid them a little over $300 and left with 6 guns with new night sights. While inside they dis-assembled each gun, inspected and repalced any worn parts, test fired and cleaned them for us.

 

[gym]

Hentown, that's the latest price and exactlly what the gent who called me back, I left my# and the returned my call" He said we no longer use tennifer, which is what your gun had, The first ones off the line, They send them out now and a shop does the bluing, Give them a call if you doubt my word.
Mine is going in for a full check up, some new sights, and after 15 years. I am happy to spend $100 and change to get back a like new gun. My gun has mucho holster ware from work, so it deserves the royal treatment for those prices. And it never failed me, but that's a long time.
I paid more for a set of sites and grips on a springer.
These processes are most commonly used on low-carbon, low-alloy steels, however they are also used on medium and high-carbon steels. Common applications include spindles, cams, gears, dies, hydraulic piston rods, and powdered metal components.[21]

Glock Ges.m.b.H., an Austrian firearms manufacturer, utilizes the Tenifer process to protect the barrels and slides of the pistols they manufacture. The finish on a Glock pistol is the third and final hardening process. It is 0.05 mm (0.0020 in) thick and produces a 64 Rockwell C hardness rating via a 500 °C (932 °F) nitride bath. The final matte, non-glare finish meets or exceeds stainless steel specifications, is 85% more corrosion resistant than a hard chrome finish, and is 99.9% salt-water corrosion resistant. After the Tenifer process, a black Parkerized finish is applied and the slide is protected even if the finish were to wear off. Besides Glock several other pistol manufacturers like Smith & Wesson and Springfield Armory, Inc. also use ferritic nitrocarburizing for finishing parts like barrels and slides but they call it Melonite finish. Pistol manufacturer Caracal International L.L.C. uses ferritic nitrocarburizing for finishing parts like barrels and slides with the plasma-based Plasox process.

Grandpower, a Slovakian firearms producer, also uses a quench polish quench (QPQ) treatment to harden metal parts on its K100 pistols.[22]

 

[hentown]

Gym: I certainly don't doubt your word. If you'll read my response, you'll see that I qualified the price I got for upgrading my G17's frame...I'd seen the tech in person and we "hit it off." He upgraded the frame for $43.

Certainly don't doubt that somebody at Glock told you that they don't use Tenifer anymore, because it's my understanding that they don't. However, Tenifer isn't the black finish that one has replaced; it's a treatment to the metal that's under the black finish.

Glock has been sending their slides and barrels out for refinishing for years, with mixed results.

 

[gym]

Agreed, sorry for any misunderstanding, it's more the process they use whih is conveluded because of the way they throw around the word. IE:
name and patented processes may vary slightly from the general description, but they are all a form of ferritic nitrocarburizing.[7]

[edit] Salt bath ferritic nitrocarburizing

Salt bath ferritic nitrocarburizing is also known as liquid ferritic nitrocarburizing or liquid nitrocarburizing[8] and is also known by the trademarked names Tufftride[2] and Tenifer.[9]

These processes are most commonly used on low-carbon, low-alloy steels, however they are also used on medium and high-carbon steels. Common applications include spindles, cams, gears, dies, hydraulic piston rods, and powdered metal components.[21]

Glock Ges.m.b.H., an Austrian firearms manufacturer, utilizes the Tenifer process to protect the barrels and slides of the pistols they manufacture. The finish on a Glock pistol is the third and final hardening process. It is 0.05 mm (0.0020 in) thick and produces a 64 Rockwell C hardness rating via a 500 °C (932 °F) nitride bath. The final matte, non-glare finish meets or exceeds stainless steel specifications, is 85% more corrosion resistant than a hard chrome finish, and is 99.9% salt-water corrosion resistant. After the Tenifer process, a black Parkerized finish is applied and the slide is protected even if the finish were to wear off. Besides Glock several other pistol manufacturers like Smith & Wesson and Springfield Armory, Inc. also use ferritic nitrocarburizing for finishing parts like barrels and slides but they call it Melonite finish. Pistol manufacturer Caracal International L.L.C. uses ferritic nitrocarburizing for finishing parts like barrels and slides with the plasma-based Plasox process.

Grandpower, a Slovakian firearms producer, also uses a quench polish quench (QPQ) treatment to harden metal parts on its K100 pistols.[22]


So the metal is already treated when they blue it, from what I can make out.
It's not easy to undertand the way they explain it

 

[Mac Attack]

I work about 10 from Glock and 2 Weeks ago I brought my 12+ year old G30 in for a checkup. The armorer who meet me said hew saw some old parts that needed to be brought up to date He asked me if I wants to replace my standard slide so for an extended one but I decided to kept it standard. He said to come back 30 minutes later to pick it up and it was ready exactly in time. Glock replaced all my internals except the barrel for a cost of $0.00. They threw in some free Glock swag fit new and my friend to. My G30 is now up to 2012 specs. My whole experience made me want to buy a new Glock.

 

[packpike]

I stopped by on a visit to ATL last week. I got the night sights installed for $57 and they gave my G27 a full check-up. I mentioned that I had lost a couple mag base plates when I added extensions and they gave me free replacements. Great experience.

 

[Dreamliner787]

I wish I lived that close to Glock!