Posted: 12/19/2008 6:18:53 PM EDT
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Alright. I have a glock 17 with about 2k down the tube so I decided to fully dissasemble the pistol and clean every part. Took it aprt easy and put back together easy but now there is a rattling noise coming from the gun when I shake it. I think its coming from the firing pin. Heres the thing though. I have since shot it and it shoots just fine. Typical glock reliability. But it still rattles. Did ijust clean up the firing pin and now all the gunk is gone and the parts are moving or did I do something wrong.
I just bout a new glock 19 the other day and it does not rattle. What the hell is it. I have checked the spring cup alignment and the barrel sleeve and such and it all looks good and like I said I have shot it since then and it works fine. Am I just paranoid? |
| Could be your firing pin is now free to move after a good cleaning. Rack the slide back and release to reset the trigger. Shake well, there should be no rattling. Take the slide off and shake it, you should hear the firing pin moving back and forth, all three of our Glocks do that. Hold the firing pin with a thumb or finger and shake the slide now. All should be quiet. |
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Could be your firing pin is now free to move after a good cleaning. Rack the slide back and release to reset the trigger. Shake well, there should be no rattling. Take the slide off and shake it, you should hear the firing pin moving back and forth, all three of our Glocks do that. Hold the firing pin with a thumb or finger and shake the slide now. All should be quiet. You hit it. I was thinking that after clening all the junk off now its free to rock back and forth. When I rack it back and reset there is no rattling but after the trigger is pulled it rattles. |
| Bingo! The striker (firing pin) is suppose to rattle free. In fact a good test of this is to 1st insure that your pistol is unloaded! Remove the magazine, lock back the slide and physically verify that there is no round in the chamber. Then, and only then, point the muzzle towards the ceiling, pull the trigger and hold it back while you shake your pistol. If the striker (firing pin) doesn't rattle, you have a dirty striker channel and need to clean it. |
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Bingo! The striker (firing pin) is suppose to rattle free. In fact a good test of this is to 1st insure that your pistol is unloaded! Remove the magazine, lock back the slide and physically verify that there is no round in the chamber. Then, and only then, point the muzzle towards the ceiling, pull the trigger and hold it back while you shake your pistol. If the striker (firing pin) doesn't rattle, you have a dirty striker channel and need to clean it. Point towards the ceiling? Are you crazy? It's much cheaper to repair a tile/carpet than it is to repair a hole in the roof! 
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You don't point it up for safety, you point it up so that you can tell if the striker is free floating. So no, in fact I'm not crazy, just informed. Go back and read my directions. They were. "1st insure that your pistol is unloaded! Remove the magazine, lock back the slide and physically verify that there is no round in the chamber. Then, and only then, point the muzzle towards the ceiling..."
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Point towards the ceiling?
Bingo! The striker (firing pin) is suppose to rattle free. In fact a good test of this is to 1st insure that your pistol is unloaded! Remove the magazine, lock back the slide and physically verify that there is no round in the chamber. Then, and only then, point the muzzle towards the ceiling, pull the trigger and hold it back while you shake your pistol. If the striker (firing pin) doesn't rattle, you have a dirty striker channel and need to clean it. Are you crazy? It's much cheaper to repair a tile/carpet than it is to repair a hole in the roof! |