Well...if you forget the order of parts that have to come out first, yeah I can see that happening. I've pulled mighty hard one mine before remembering ... well, whichever thing it is that has to come out first!How the heck do you bend an extractor taking it out to clean it??
If you shoot an xD/xDM much, eventually that's just not enough. I don't strip mine down that far but once every ?,000 rounds or so, but eventually they do just need it.And why not just hose it out with a brake cleaner, gun-scrubber, or WD-40 spray nozzle & clean it with an old toothbrush?