How To Repair Polymer Gun Frames

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Hi anybody,
What I demand to reach here is to fill a hole on a Glock frame using epoxy, and make it appear every bit natural as possible (black colored epoxy when dried, for example). The reason I demand to practise this, is that I've had a Cominolli manual rubber put in my Glock, now I demand to take it out. That will leave a hole in the frame. Doesn't really interfere with the operation, but I like to restore it back to "normal" if the price is no more than a tube of epoxy...

As for why I demand to take the transmission condom out, I'd write a full review of this experiment when I got time. In short, there's zero wrong with transmission safe. It worked as designed, and functioned 100%. Mr. Cominolli is a very overnice person, he even custom made a safety lever for me at no charge after I called him, and shipped to me at his expense. It's my style of gripping the gun that got in the way of the prophylactic lever. Basically, to make information technology work, i has to shoot with their stiff-hand thumb OVER the rubber lever, riding that lever, pollex pointing down range. Their left thumb would be aslope, also pointing directly ahead. I saw a lot of 1911 people shoot similar that. I can't do it, feels awkward to me. I grip my G23 with my correct thumb exactly in the thumb recess that Glock put there on the side of the gun. My left thumb then come on height of that, both pointing kind of downward. In this way my right thumb is Nether the safety lever. Every time I burn, my right pollex would button up on the lever, by the recoil. And that locks up the gun...

Thanks!

Hither's a movie of my Glock with the safety on:
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Exercise yous ski? If you lot do, do you know of the stuff chosen "p-tex" which is used to fill-in gouges in the bottom of skis? It is PET material and will probably look closer to the gun polymer than epoxy.
A stick of black p-tex costs about $ane.00 and can be melted-in with an atomic number 26. When hardened, yous can shape and remove it until information technology is flush with the gun. Look at the video clip hither to meet and decide if you want to go this route.

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Be enlightened that like all firearms polymer parts, the Glock frame is a glass fiber bearing plastic to which few adhesives volition attach, including epoxy.
Yous can make full with many adhesives, simply they pare right off since they don't adhere.
Perhaps you could donate this Glock to some diving team that dives with sharks. I mean Glocks can burn down underwater correct???
Just joking.

Seriously, I don't know much about Glocks. I shoot 1911's.

I really don't know how y'all would fix that.

Luke
The Lord co. in North Carolina makes a product chosen fusor. I use it on all types of plastic and information technology works dandy. Its a little expensive and requires a applicator gun. Go to a auto body repair store they might loan you the gun. The color is right and its a potent repair.

Terminal edited: Aug ten, 2009
Acraglass can be colored.
I think Brownells sells a couple of resins that are used for things like grip reductions, butfrom what I've seen, they are UGLY.
I think you can become a replacement frame for $175 (don't quote me on that), and that might exist the way to go.

Dan
+one to what Hk Dan said.
This is the strongest and most naturally appearing/aesthetic "fix" that I can think of.

The improver of the "Cominolli Safety" requires a permanent and irrevocable alteration to the Glock frame (the "cut") that is non easily repaired which is why I'd never do it in the first identify unless I was absolutely sure that it was what I wanted, "forever" . I believe that you lot'll spend a considerable corporeality of fourth dimension trying to "correct" this "modification" and if you are looking for a truly reliable and aesthetic solution this looks to be the best way to become.
pardon my ignorance...
I'd call Glock and clarify...with or without the repair I think you are SOL since Glock probably won't stand behind a modified frame; not certain what to tell you lot to cheer you up
Thank you a lot to all the comments above! I'll try to read on the products like p-tex and fusor, on the Internet. The other lath I posted this to, INGO (Indiana Gun Possessor forum), some people mentioned Plastic Welder by ITW Devcon. I went to their website, and they actually mentioned their production would work on the cloth Glock use for their frame, "Nylon 6" or "Nylon 6,half-dozen". Since the cut does not affect the operation of the gun, I'll take it tedious...
At present, I was pretty certain about what I wanted, and the safety did piece of work as described. I simply couldn't imagine my grip would accept to exist altered to adapt to the thing. I Volition sell the whole kit later to recoup some cost (fabric toll, as the labor I paid the gunsmith is toast now)....

About the replacement frame, I actually chosen Glock customer service yesterday, just to see if they'd offer whatever "free" advice. I waited about three minutes earlier a alive person came on the line, better than I thought, and definitely better than Microsoft hotline. The guy laughed out loud when I told him that I needed to fill a hole in my Glock. I told him I didn't put the pigsty in the gun, but a certified Glock armorer did, to install the safety. He told me commencement of all, they don't requite advice what to utilise to fill the hole, they don't endorse any 3rd party addon (of class non), they consider any alteration the client did to the gun as unauthorized (yeah yeah), and they consider the frame had been destroyed. He so said that they do sell the frame for $150 separately, but if I transport my frame in, he'd replace it for $43 (pretty good deal, guess I can afford a few KBs in the hereafter, beingness a 40-caliber Glock mine is). Information technology volition be my terminal resort, if I can't find a sure way to fix that cut, and if that cut annoys me to point that I have to fix it...

So, if any Glock people out there would similar to have their frame replaced, y'all tin ask Glock to practice it for $43 (I don't recollect they'd cover your shipping, but I didn't ask them specifically)...
Can yous provide testify of these kabooms on a Glock using .40 quotient ammo that is Not hand loaded over-capacity?
I believe this kaboom problem to be an Internet legend. Or these kabooms are happening with people who are paw loading their rounds over capacity. In that case, so yeah the gun is supposed to kaboom.
$43.00? Now that is what I call service. Sounds like a very off-white price (can y'all say "cheep" ) for replacing a frame altered out of warranty.
You can do as you wish, but I know what I'd exist doing if I were in your position.

Glock CS has always been terrific whenever I have needed it. Seems like they all the same are.
FORTY THREE DOLLARS???? Good Lord, man, you could barely JB Weld information technology for that!!! LOL
Congrats, buddy! Easy fix, and the correct one to boot.

Dan
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For forty 3 bucks, I'd exist packing it upwardly and sending it to Smyrna.
That's $150 for the new frame and $43 for the labor, for a full of $193. Right?
Still, I would practise that, or even go on it as is, or buy another, earlier I would put some substance that will ultimately piece of work like mucilage along a moving office of a firearm.
i'm pretty sure the $43 would exist the price for a frame
i don't know what it toll in your state, only i call back the transfer fees would be more than the cost of the frame.

i'm pretty sure they're non talking most transferring y'all series number to the new frame, but i might be wrong
Aye, a friend of mine damaged the rails on his G30SF and sent it back to Glock...they charged $47 for a new frame and that included render shipping...bummer was that information technology took three months to become it back...something about the frame manufacturing cycle, etc, etc ...
Were information technology mine, I would use the shafting expoxy that golfsmiths use to adhere a graphite golf shaft to a club head. You can buy a graphite-specific epoxy from places like Golfsmith that are black in colour. If you know anything nearly lodge work, or golf in general, you'll recognize that y'all will break the shaft or the head before the epoxy bail volition allow go, and that's saying something, given the pressure that a club is under during the swing and subsequent contact with the ball.
Thanks for all the comments and advices. I'll leave the gun as is for at present, only go along on shooting it, as much as I can afford...