glock 19 slide disassembly

Glock 19 Slide Disassembly - The Glock 19 is one of America's most popular handguns, and with good reason. Reliable, accurate and easy to maintain, this is the defensive handgun of choice for everyone from soccer moms to special operators. However, it needs to be cleaned and lubricated regularly. We show you how to clean your Glock 19 in the video and transcript below.

Kevin: I'm here with Jeff Street. Jeff is the owner and head instructor of Step-by-Step Gun Training, and is also a certified Glock gunsmith and a bit of a Glock enthusiast. So, Jeff, my first question to you is how often should people clean a Glock 19? We hear many different opinions on this. how do you see it

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Jeff: If you are new to the Glock platform, you should clean it every time you use it. This will help you get comfortable with how everything should look and feel when it's right. That way, if something isn't close, you can fix it, probably before you have a real problem in the future.

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Kevin: You'll know right away because spring wasn't meant to be in two parts. You should not see a piece of metal that has a clean cut. Something like that will be very obvious.

Kevin: So if you're new to the gun, that's how often you should clean it. What if you are a more experienced shooter? After taking a few classes, how often should you clean it?

Jeff: Well, you haven't just taken a few classes, you've been doing it for years. Well, then I have friends who still clean their Glock every time. There is no harm in keeping it clean. It's something you can rely on, so why not clean up a little every now and then?

Kevin: Okay Jeff. So if a person is done shooting and wants to return home and clean their Glock 19, what are the procedures for unloading? We have one here that is being unloaded. We both checked it out. It even has a small barrel block in it, so we definitely know it's unloaded. So, walk us through.

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Jeff: First, make sure there is no live ammo in the room other than what might be in here (your gun). You open the pouch and give it a look before touching the gun to make sure the muzzle is pointed in a safe direction. Then you pull the magazine, if there's a magazine in it, then you press the magazine release, pull the magazine out and make sure it's empty.

Jeff: Now when I touch the gun, I do it in my bathroom and I have a toilet in my bathroom. I even have a toilet when I'm in a hotel room. I pull the gun out without even touching the trigger and I point at the toilet bowl so it goes into the water when the bullet goes off, slows down a little there, hit' r porcelain and stays there. It would break the toilet, which I definitely don't want to do. I'd have to turn off the water valve to keep from flooding the house and I'd have to call my plumber, so I'm very motivated not to do that. Then I swipe the slide three times and of course stick my finger in the magazine to make sure there isn't a magazine I've just taken out. I do it three times. That way I can see a round come out if I do this out of order and destroy it once, but if I see another round come out I probably haven't pulled the magazine out yet.

So after cutting it three times I'll lock the slide open. If you are someone with very short thumbs, you may have to rotate your body, but you still keep your nose aligned with the toilet bowl. So lock the chute and examine it again. No magazine and you stick your finger in the chamber to make sure there are no rounds in there and you look down through the magwell so you can see daylight. They check visually and tactilely to ensure that the gun has been fully discharged. Now I keep pointing to the toilet bowl. With a Glock, you have to pull the trigger to take it apart. Any gun I wouldn't disassemble with a cartridge in the chamber, I still wouldn't disassemble. I slide the slider forward and pull the trigger, pointing it at the toilet bowl again. Then I have to release the tension on the spring and pull the lid back a bit. It's a tiny bit and you'll feel a little click when you do. Then it has a release lever here. This is the slider release and you need to pull it down exactly on both sides at the same time. Then let the sled come on. It will start soon. Now I have a frame and I have the slide. On the slide I will remove the recoil spring and barrel. By now, we basically have four main parts that we are going to clean.

Jeff: We have now broken the gun into four main parts: slide, recoil spring, barrel and frame. If you take a nylon brush you can even use a toothbrush if you want (don't use your toothbrush) and you will remove as much carbon as possible. Brush, and you'll want to use a nylon brush. You don't want to use a metal brush because you will scratch things up and tear your gun on the inside. Do the same with the foil. Brush it very well, and the barrel. Go ahead and brush it, pick up most of it.

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If you have very hard carbon deposits and want to get rid of them, I recommend something that doesn't smell clean as a breakthrough. You spray this on and it has no smell like you can do in your home. Leave it on for a while. Then you tackle it with the Q tips. You walk around and find the dirt. Do not leave large pieces of cotton from the cotton swab in your dog. Once you get that and see how the cotton swabs get dirty here and you run through a few cotton swabs, get it nice and clean.

Now you need to remount your gun and oil your gun, but before you do that you need to clean the inside of your barrel. What I recommend for this is a drill string. Even though it's a boring snake, it's got weight on the end, it's got string and then it's got this fabric. It has a bristle brush built into it. Well, that's metal, but it's a metal that's softer than the metal in your gun, so it won't scratch your gun. If you see a little bit of carbon here or anywhere else on the feed ramp, you don't want to take something sharp, a hard piece of metal and scratch that. These parts have a finish, and you don't want to ruin that finish. With the barrel out of the gun, I drop the weight down the barrel. I do it, and only do it a few times. Two or three times is all it takes. If you look at this and want to see how well a Morning Snake works, you can see how well a Morning Snake works, you can run a regular old fashioned patch through your barrel and see that it's not very dirty after you've gone through yours walking through a boring queue.

Now you need to lubricate your Glock 19. I have a nice little needle and just use motor oil, but you can use your favorite gun oil and lubricate the channels. On the barrel, grease where it snaps. Put a ring around this barrel and pass it over. Then the frame and hood of the slide is also fine where it rubs on top of the barrel. Then we need to lubricate the plug that's back here and I'll put a little drop on the fall arrester.

Let me go ahead and put the gun back together. Put the barrel back in place, put the recoil spring back in place, and then let's put the slide on. It has to go to these two rails. Some people think they have to start all over again up here, but you start right here at the rails.

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Now we have to test the tool for function. I'll still point the gun at that toilet when I pull the trigger, and I'll leave

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