Glad to hear it helped!

Glad it went well for you. Cheers.

It’s easy to do because this humble marksman probably did this hundreds of times.

Hmmm.

I covered my Glock in Astroglide and it moaned and asked me for pictures of my feet. Did I do something wrong??

@@beardly0121 yeah mine was acting weird to all my bullets just fell out the barrel 😐

I don’t pretend it’s going to make magical things happen/ but it’s an advantage I know will be there when I am competing

@@TheHumbleMarksman Exactly. Whenever I pull the trigger on it, then compare to a stock Glock..it feels that much better.

That's not bad stuff at all.

I hope it helps - Cheers.

I did this on my CZ's. I'll have to bust out the dremel and try it on the Glock.

I haven’t played with older gen parts in a 5 frame. I know a gen 3 bar on a gen 4 was an improvement - May be worth messing around with

I forgot to mention how important those are?

hope it helps!

Hope it helps!

glad it worked for you. Cheers.

I’m having the same issue with my 48 mos. The trigger pull is very heavy. Started with a agency flat trigger and a minus connector the switched to an OEM trigger with OEM minus connector. Both stayed 6.5 lbs. I’m trying the ghost edge connector next. I don’t want to mess with springs because it’s my carry. But I would love to get it down to 5lbs. If I get desperate I’ll have to send it to Johnny Glocks for him to do a full work up on it.

Snowflakes are very seasonal. Gonna have to figure out something for summer

I use that unicon rainbow shit.

Cheers - hope the P80s are hanging tough!

No it's not . Glock parts are already mirror shined under the surface treatment they put on them, if you want to see it you can just use a micro fiber rag and some gun lube . The nail file is damaging the treatment and "electroplate"

@@Drawde907 I’m not sure that’s an accurate statement.

@@essray that shiny is like an electroplating they put over the the metal if you shoot one long enough you'll get through that coating ,You can usually see things like the plunger chip off first , it's one of the reasons they change the design. When you take a file to it you're speeding up that process , You can literally take a rag with nothing on it sitting there watching TV and shining up to a mirror finish with little effort. Try it. And I know he's not exactly using a file but that grit in that nail buffer just isn't necessary. You're not going to get any more benefits over shining it up with the rag . trust me I've screwed up plenty of parts since the '80s.

@@Drawde907 the multiphase process definitely helped smooth out the trigger on my slimline’s stamped OEM parts. Removed all the imperfections.

Merry Christmas!

I haven't messed with the M Carbo kits.

I just bought one too do you have any tips on cleaning materials

Generally use Ballistol for everything from polys to levers

The smoother you can make the metal surfaces that contact each other the lighter the trigger can be conceptually - and the perceived quality of the pull will increase.

Awesome man - glad to hear it. If you are OK with lighter triggers you might try the TTI Grandmaster connector - it's pretty great.

A polished oem dot connector will come close.

That's not a bad combo.

Eww

No - I don’t want to change geometry of anything just make mating surfaces as smooth as possible

That's an actual thing - that's awesome - wasn't aware of it!

@@TheHumbleMarksman www.amazon.com/CD-MM12R-Marvel-Mystery-Pint/dp/B0009JKGKG/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=marvel+mystery+oil&qid=1576633502&sr=8-2

I was using this for a while with a good result - it's decent stuff. Lithium grease didn't do me right in cold weather with a weak magazine spring - so I'm sticking with oil.

Eewww

Only once

For the final polish only - if you get over zealous and change geometry with the dremel there are problems

A friend has installed the Timney trigger and loves it. Easy to install and he’s never done anything like it before.

This gun had about 4500 rounds through it when I polished it and there was still an improvement.

If you have engine assembly line, try that. I've not found anything more slick than engine assembly.lube.

Hope it works out for you! Cheers!

You won’t harm anything by polishing. You’re just polishing the surface, not removing material. It’s still 100% safe afterwards. I did it to my edc and it’s just fine.

Depends on how you define safe, and if you want to carry a modified gun as a carry gun. Based on what I saw, its completely safe. The goal is to smooth or polish the parts to reduce friction.

If everybody tried motor oil for 1000 rounds and then reflected on its performance, nobody would buy dedicated "gun oil" of any kind ever again. It's a lubricant people. Reducing friction on small gun parts is easy, and there isn't technology out there that gives any product a discernible advantage.

That must be a click north of the snake oil I’ve been using. Hopefully they don’t regulate this substance.

it was the Ghost Angel 3.0. I'm using the Glockstore Black Yikes now - I think it's my favorite.

I have used it in the past- I agree it’s good stuff

If you don’t alter geometry - no

I'm using Lucas Extreme right now - and it's reasonably good. Spartan Systems Accuracy Oil looks to be ridiculously high performing - but wildly expensive and would that oil even get to the point of failure in a hand gun before evaporating/running out?

Frog Lube (aka Frog Glue) has to be the biggest snake oil deception ever pulled in the gun industry.

What do you tell a unicorn to make it cry?

@@TheHumbleMarksman that AOC is coming to take care of it

That sounds like a responsible sustainable source of oil. I dig it.

there's a reason I don't do how to videos any more.

the purpose of this video was not to do anything that would affect the trigger safeties - simply to smooth it out. You're 100% correct if you start messing with springs or pre/over travel. Then It's worth mentioning.

never tried that - I might test it on a trigger group to see how it does.

They aren’t alone in this - most production firearms use stamped or molded parts that have not been smoothed out- I would say it’s the most common practice among duty style guns

It is a matter of maginal costs vs marginal utility (marginal does not mean small, marginal means a change in the total cost caused by doing one more thing). The way these guns are now, the trigger bars are just stamped out of a sheet. It's very cheap, very fast and it produces functional and reliable parts. Stamping works very well when you are making lots of guns very fast. To make these parts smooth would require either a completely different manufacturing technique, or they would have to be filed down, polished and hand fitted by a human employee. That is easy to do for one gun but it's hugely expensive when you are making a bunch of guns quickly. The increase in total cost would be huge and the increase in the guns performance would be very small. The difference made by the 25 cent trigger job is not day and night. It makes the action smoother but it does not really make the pull lighter. The marginal cost of doing these modifications would be higher than the marginal utility. In simple terms, it would make the guns better to have these done in factory, but not better enough to make them worth the higher price. Would you rather buy a Glock or a hypothetical gun that is exactly the same only it has a trigger that is a little bit smoother (but not lighter) and it costs $200 more? Maybe you would, but most people would not and organizations such as militaries and LE agencies definitely would not.

This is the best comment on my channel ever

Lol.

And to think people have been slicking up people's for decades, if only there was KZfaq for you to tell them better...

Can you buy a round for 50 cents ?

Oh man - this is going to save me literally minutes when it’s time to finally clean guns again

Big Al excellent advice.

I found a polished gun has a more refined trigger than a fire-fit gun I did zero polishing on. A lot of guys use these guns in competition so they are interested in having a trigger that isn't a disadvantage versus higher dollar guns - which is why this is a thing. And yes I misspoke - certainly you don't think i call it a mag release on purpose.

yup!

thanks

This is sage advice. Namaste 🙏

Sounds wierd but the toothpaste is a good polish. I have also put metal polish on the contact points and fired/dry fired the gun several hundred times with good results.