Grump
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Just like has occasionally been reported in other threads before, here, and elsewhere regarding the frame rail cracks on early 1980s P226s....
I sent mine back to SIG and they replaced the whole thing with a new-production unit, complete with accessory rail, etc.
Paid my own shipping, and had a transfer fee upon return of the replacement to my local dealer, but they gave me two brand-new standard capacity magazines in the box. That's up $80 at retail, and fully repaid me for shipping and transfer fee!!!
Looked at the frame and the thinnest part inside the frame rail looks to be maybe 25% thicker than the old unit. Both old and new appear, visually at least, to have the same amount of "fillet" or rounding in the corners, which tends to prevent cracking according the materials engineering text or two I read years ago.
The magazines are far stiffer in the follower, so I took a peek at my old ones (I disassemble everything and take out all the assembly oil 'cause I HATE getting dust-oil mud inside my stuff), and the new production mags from Mec-Gar have 3 more coils than the old ones, which doubles the free length beyond magazine length. And for you Glock fans out there, the followers appear to be unchanged after 20 YEARS!!!
Me happy. Very happy. !!
I sent mine back to SIG and they replaced the whole thing with a new-production unit, complete with accessory rail, etc.
Paid my own shipping, and had a transfer fee upon return of the replacement to my local dealer, but they gave me two brand-new standard capacity magazines in the box. That's up $80 at retail, and fully repaid me for shipping and transfer fee!!!
Looked at the frame and the thinnest part inside the frame rail looks to be maybe 25% thicker than the old unit. Both old and new appear, visually at least, to have the same amount of "fillet" or rounding in the corners, which tends to prevent cracking according the materials engineering text or two I read years ago.
The magazines are far stiffer in the follower, so I took a peek at my old ones (I disassemble everything and take out all the assembly oil 'cause I HATE getting dust-oil mud inside my stuff), and the new production mags from Mec-Gar have 3 more coils than the old ones, which doubles the free length beyond magazine length. And for you Glock fans out there, the followers appear to be unchanged after 20 YEARS!!!
Me happy. Very happy. !!