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Replacing Commander slide

mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
edited October 2001 in Ask the Experts
Thanks to Punchie and Kimberkid for the assist on finding a stainless slide for my Commander. Brownell's has them. OUCH!!!The new slide alone costs more than I paid for the thing back in '69.Haven't ordered it yet 'cause I'm waiting to see the outcome of a bid I put on a Glock 21C. Probably won't win that one. I've seen how much they're going for and I'm not gonna' bid that high. A pet peeve.....The retail dealers who put a "retail" reserve price on a gun. If I wanted to pay retail, I'd go to my local guy.ANYHOO...... Should I be able to simply take the new slide out of the box and put it on the frame or will it need some "tweaking" by a gunsmith? I replaced the original firing pin with a titanium one so I know how to do that much.I'd appreciate any infoMudge
I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was overcome by an ego problem and said. "I ain't gonna' pay a gunsmith to do that. I can do that". Like the saying goes....pay 'em a little now or a lot later. I actually tried to fit a match barrel bushing and took off more steel than I should have.It's not nice to laugh at old people. Mudge
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • JudgeColtJudgeColt Member Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I am looking at the same item in Brownell's as you, the catalog describes the slide as a "slide assembly." That may mean that the sights, firing pin, firing pin spring, firing pin stop and extractor are all with the "assembly," or it may not. You had best ask Brownell's first if it is important to you. If your new slide is bare, the only semi-difficult item to transfer from your old slide would be the sights. You would need a slide pusher for the rear sight, and some way to stake the front sight. The other parts are super easy. You never learn anything if you do not try something new once in a while. Sometimes the cost of the learning is higher than other times.
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  • PhilPhil Member Posts: 47 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You're supposed to take the steel off the bushing,not the slide.You can tap the rear sight with a brass punch & light hammer (left to right) but you gotta have a front sight staker.
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WECSOG rule #1Always take the metal off the cheapest part!cpermd
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  • Krag96Krag96 Member Posts: 38 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Doesn't Brownells also sell the bushingless barrels that come over size and require no bushing fit? just fit into slide, seems that would be cheaper than new slide,
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks to all for the advice (and the admonishments). I was simply following the instructions that came with the bushing. It clearly stated that I should take the metal off the slide and NOT the bushing. Sounded a bit unusual at the time but I figured THEY knew what they were doing even if I didn't.Krag96...Can't do that. The compensator I use has a bushing attached. Besides, I took so mush steel out of the slide, I don't think even a oversize barrel would fit without some slop in it. When I screw up, I do it BIG TIME.Thanks again to all. I hope this will cure it.Mudge P.S. cpermd What do WECSOG mean?
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS![This message has been edited by mudge (edited 10-13-2001).]
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