I bought a G34 recently, and my cousin came over tonight. He pulled out his G26. We stuck the barrel from my 34 into his 26... And that was a problem.
Five minutes of trying to fix it, I googled it and found this thread that apparently no longer exists here -- probably archived. That was the only search result that I could find that was relevant, and it didn't give any answer I wanted to hear.
Turns out, you can get it apart without tearing down or breaking anything as that thread suggests.
If you put a G34 barrel into a G26, you're going to panic a little bit, whether you show it (like my cousin) or not (like me.) I just figured we'd take it to a gunsmith in the morning if we couldn't get it, so, no sweat. My cousin, well, he needed a nerve pill.
Anyway, just don't do it. It looks cool and all, but it gets bound up and you have a mess on your hands. This is because the lugs are different shapes/sizes or whatever, it doesn't matter. You've effectively disabled two guns until you can get the slide off the G26, and you'll feel like a fool for a minute or two. :banghead:
Answers on the thread I found included:
1. Remove the slide cover plate and remove the firing pin while the gun was still put together
2. Snap the guide rod
You don't have to do any of that.
What's happening is the barrel is getting caught on the extractor, binding up the slide on its way off the frame.
This took two people to make all the maneuvers... But here's how to fix it:
Pull the slide back, lock it, and take a breath. Get one person to work the barrel and disengage the slide lock. Get the other person to operate the slide and the frame.
Slowly bring the slide forward to begin removal.
Focus on getting the barrel through the extractor portion of the slide. Push it down as the slide is being brought forward for removal. Use leverage with the end of the barrel to make the barrel move down away from the slide. The guy operating the slide will pull up on the slide and pull down on the frame with his other hand.
It will eventually unbind, and in our case, the slide felt off-track the rest of the way off the frame... But slow and steady wins the race -- it will come off if you pull hard enough after the barrel has gone through the extractor.
I had compared the barrels prior to doing this stunt, and they looked identical. They're both 9mm, so as long as the length of the barrel doesn't prevent the slide being assembled, there should be no problem.
Wrong.
The lugs are shaped differently, and the small G26 guide rod and spring do not have enough room to operate.
My advice would be to just use this picture to see what it looks like, instead of trying it for yourself. But if you searched for this, it's too late for that. Here's what it looked like:
I'll be praying for you.
Five minutes of trying to fix it, I googled it and found this thread that apparently no longer exists here -- probably archived. That was the only search result that I could find that was relevant, and it didn't give any answer I wanted to hear.
Turns out, you can get it apart without tearing down or breaking anything as that thread suggests.
If you put a G34 barrel into a G26, you're going to panic a little bit, whether you show it (like my cousin) or not (like me.) I just figured we'd take it to a gunsmith in the morning if we couldn't get it, so, no sweat. My cousin, well, he needed a nerve pill.
Anyway, just don't do it. It looks cool and all, but it gets bound up and you have a mess on your hands. This is because the lugs are different shapes/sizes or whatever, it doesn't matter. You've effectively disabled two guns until you can get the slide off the G26, and you'll feel like a fool for a minute or two. :banghead:
Answers on the thread I found included:
1. Remove the slide cover plate and remove the firing pin while the gun was still put together
2. Snap the guide rod
You don't have to do any of that.
What's happening is the barrel is getting caught on the extractor, binding up the slide on its way off the frame.
This took two people to make all the maneuvers... But here's how to fix it:
Pull the slide back, lock it, and take a breath. Get one person to work the barrel and disengage the slide lock. Get the other person to operate the slide and the frame.
Slowly bring the slide forward to begin removal.
Focus on getting the barrel through the extractor portion of the slide. Push it down as the slide is being brought forward for removal. Use leverage with the end of the barrel to make the barrel move down away from the slide. The guy operating the slide will pull up on the slide and pull down on the frame with his other hand.
It will eventually unbind, and in our case, the slide felt off-track the rest of the way off the frame... But slow and steady wins the race -- it will come off if you pull hard enough after the barrel has gone through the extractor.
I had compared the barrels prior to doing this stunt, and they looked identical. They're both 9mm, so as long as the length of the barrel doesn't prevent the slide being assembled, there should be no problem.
Wrong.
The lugs are shaped differently, and the small G26 guide rod and spring do not have enough room to operate.
My advice would be to just use this picture to see what it looks like, instead of trying it for yourself. But if you searched for this, it's too late for that. Here's what it looked like:
I'll be praying for you.