Thanks, GD. I'm not an engineer, but for all of the reading that I've done on pistols, I'd never run across that. I was certainly completely unaware of that. (Just for the record, I mean that. I'm not being sarcastic, or trying to cast doubt on your words.)
That's OK, Spats. I have no personal interest in whether the information I've posted is accepted, or not. I put up, '
the gist' of the original article several posts before this reply; so people can take it for whatever they will. (A mi no importa!) I will say this, though: Other than incredulity there have been some nonsensical replies to the original post. (I never said, nor meant to imply that 100% pistol performance is, '
forever'. Somebody else said that — not me.)
Neither did I start dealing with Glocks just the other day; I have 15 years of experience working with plastic pistols; and I've also got a good 18,000 + '
HOW TO' and strictly TECHNICAL posts in the GT archives. So, yeah, I should know what I'm talking about, all right! (Mas Ayoob I ain't; but I do know all about pistols and how to use them well.)
As things turned out I had a lot of trouble with the first several Glocks I purchased; and, like it or not, I was forced to really delve into and learn the platform parameters. Without exaggeration, and with no interest in any sort of bragging, to the very best of my knowledge, I am the first person to post on anybody's gun forum that POLYMER FRAME PISTOLS TEND TO VIBRATE, VIOLENTLY, WHENEVER THE PISTOL IS FIRED. I put this remark up on GT a good 2 — 2 1/2 years BEFORE the Austrian engineer Glock sent to Hasbrouck Heights, NJ came out and publicly coined the phrase, '
Harmonic Vibration' in an effort to explain, '
Why' the HHPD couldn't get their G23's to function with a light attached to the frame.
Know what happened when I did that? I started a firestorm of criticism; and WalterGA and his gang of Kool-Aid drinking followers tried to criticize and laugh me off the board. (It took a while; but can you imagine how I smiled to myself when all those Glockeroos suddenly had to, '
eat crow' on that one!)
Let me tell you a true story: I'm an older man with a great deal of pistolsmithing experience. During my first two years working with Glock pistols I had an RO tap me on the shoulder to say, '
I think you should stop firing that Glock immediately!' I answered that I already knew the pistol had a slight tendency not to RTB; and I compensated for it by using only underpowered ammunition. When the RO shook his head and told me to, '
Be careful!' I replied that I was working on the problem — Which I was. It just took me another good year, or so, to finally solve it.
During this time I had an opportunity to correspond with a man who owned an upscale bar & grille in Manhattan. Guess what happened to him? There'd been a few robberies in his neighborhood; and, for self-protection, he went out and bought a brand new 40 caliber G23. He brought it back to the bar, loaded it up with Hydra-Shok HP's, and stuck his new Glock underneath the cash register. Nothing happened for several more months; and he, pretty much, forgot all about his new Glock. Then, one night, just before closing time three men came into his bar, pulled out guns, roughed up some of the wait staff, and announced a robbery.
The bar owner was quick. Instead of opening the cash register, he pulled out his brand new Glock, pointed it at one of the robbers and pulled the trigger. His shot missed; and his Glock jammed. The robbers had better aim; and in the ensuing fusillade the bar owner was hit several times and crippled for life. This man swore that he hadn't limp-wristed the pistol; and his lawyers agreed that something else had caused his Glock to fail. They built a pretty good case for brand new Glocks to behave erratically; and the case advanced to the point where it became another one of Glock, GmbH's infamous out-of-court settlements.
When I (personally) combined this information with the fact that I was repeatedly reading about all sorts of different brand new Glocks failing to perform correctly I decided that, quite possibly, something else might, indeed, be taking place; and I began looking for the answer. As far as I'm concerned I believe that I finally found it. Not to start another stupid internet gun forum argument; but I've, now, shared the information I've gleaned with everyone, here, who wants to read about this technical idiosyncrasy of (actually) all molded polymer products.
Like I said: If anyone doesn't want to either accept or believe what I've offered, then, that's fine with me. I've got no personal stake in what someone else wants to think. I do not, however, believe that being a wise guy, or making smart aleck remarks in reply to the receipt of new information is the cleverest thing I've ever seen someone do. Being a wise guy has never really benefited anybody — not even the wise guy, himself.
