How To Clean And Lube A Glock 27

Given the common maladies of aging — such equally arthritis — which affect hand strength and dexterity, quondam geezers like myself who carry a handgun every day for self-defense want something reliable, like shooting fish in a barrel to operate and elementary to maintain. Amongst large bore, defensive, semi-automatic pistols, that spells G-50-O-C-Yard.

The Glock is user-friendly, durable, reliable, low maintenance and eminently shootable. Recoil in every Glock is very manageable for its caliber. The Glock slide is like shooting fish in a barrel to grasp and doesn't require extraordinary strength to work. There aren't a lot of buttons and levers to operate, so boggling dexterity is not required. Glocks are built to have a lot of neglect and abuse only continue to part under the most agin of conditions. A new, out-of-the-box Glock will have an expected service life of well over 200,000 rounds. That ways it should outlast yous!

Despite the Glock's remarkable durability and dependability, cleaning your Glock is still necessary. If y'all brand fourth dimension for cleaning your Glock (or whatever defensive firearm you own), it will stay in shape to take care of y'all. The proficient news is that you don't take to exist an armorer or gunsmith to larn how to field strip (disassemble) your Glock for routine inspection and cleaning. Just read your Glock owner's transmission and this article.

For each and every handgun you own, yous should read the owner's manual for specific disassembly, reassembly, lubrication and cleaning instructions.

If you brand time for cleaning your Glock pistol it will stay in shape to have intendance of y'all.

Glock Maintenance Schedule

Unlike many other auto-loading pistols with tightly machined tolerances, the Glock does not need to be over-cleaned. If you are i who likes to clean your gun a lot (right before and afterwards each shooting session), do your need with another gun! Your Glock also doesn't similar to exist over-lubricated. New Glocks come up with a copper-colored lubricant on portions of the slide's interior for long-term lubrication. This lapping chemical compound should not be removed or mixed with gun oils, which can create a mucilaginous, gooey mess! With that said, cleaning your Glock pistol should be done regularly.

My routine is to field strip and clean my gun after every two to iii trips to the gun range or if I have run more than 400 rounds through it since its last cleaning. Nevertheless, if you lot carry your gun a lot _ even if yous oasis't shot it much — information technology should exist cleaned, lubricated and office-checked at least once every three months. Carrying a gun exposes it to body oils, sweat, dirt, grit, lint, moisture, etc. One time a year, you also might want to consider taking your Glock handgun to a Certified Glock Armorer or qualified gunsmith (who works on Glocks regularly) to have information technology detail stripped and cleaned.

What follows are x easy steps for cleaning your Glock and keeping it upward and running. Please note that the basic cleaning steps described below apply to most other semi-automatic pistols. However, for each and every handgun yous own, you lot should read the possessor'due south transmission for specific disassembly, reassembly, lubrication and cleaning instructions.

Pace i: Make Sure the Pistol Is Unloaded

It is vital for your own safety and the safety of others that (a) you make sure your pistol is unloaded before commencing to field strip it and (b) that there exist no live ammunition whatsoever in the cleaning surface area. To gear up to field strip your Glock:

1) With your pistol facing in a safe direction, remove the mag. So, if the bedchamber is loaded, rack the slide to eject a circular. Always remove the magazine first earlier ejecting a round from the bedroom; otherwise y'all will just chamber another circular!

ii) With no mag in the magazine well, lock the slide back. Visually and with your little finger, check the chamber, bolt face and magazine well (through the ejection port) to make sure the gun has been cleared and made safe.

Notation: When cleaning your Glock, this first step is super crucial because the pistol must exist dry-fired in guild to initiate disassembly. Even after you have visually and physically checked clear, you still want to hold the weapon pointed in a rubber management.

Step ii: Dry out-Fire the Pistol

A Glock pistol field stripped into its four major components: slide, barrel, recoil spring assembly and frame/receiver.

i) Pointing the gun away from any person or objects of value (i.e., a prophylactic direction), rack the slide to return the slide into battery and close the action. Cheque that the chamber is clear one more fourth dimension.

2) With the slide in battery, point the pistol in a condom direction so press the trigger rearward. You'll hear and feel the click of the firing pivot moving forwards. The trigger must exist in its rearward position to remove the slide.

Note. Utilise your full attention to complete steps one and two higher up. Do not allow yourself to become distracted! Most unintentional discharges with the Glock occur at this bespeak when the operator gets distracted.

Step iii: Detach the Pistol into Its Four Main Component Parts

Follow the Glock owner'due south manual instructions for disassembling your pistol into its four main component parts: slide, butt, guide rod/recoil jump assembly and frame/receiver. No farther disassembly is required for routine maintenance and cleaning of your Glock. You are now set to clean.

Yous will demand the following materials for properly cleaning your Glock: appropriately sized cleaning patches; Q-tips; a good quality cleaning rod; a screw-on, brass, diameter brush of the appropriate caliber for your gun; a screw-on, slotted tip for threading cleaning patches onto your cleaning rod; a two-ended, nylon, gun cleaning toothbrush; a quality gun cleaner/solvent; a quality lubricant/gun oil; and a lint-complimentary cleaning rag.

(Left) Wet patch the barrel bore. (Middle) Bore brush the diameter. (Correct) Toothbrush the barrel feed ramp and hood.

Footstep four: Clean the Firearm Barrel

1) Moisture a cleaning patch with your quality gun cleaner/solvent. With the wet patch threaded through the slotted tip, insert the cleaning rod into the breech end of the barrel and swab out the sleeping room and bore. Work the wet patch dorsum and forth through the unabridged length of the butt. Don't bottle castor inside the bore. This will just keep the debris within the butt. Rotate the cleaning rod clockwise as yous push the patch all the way frontwards from the breech, out through the muzzle. Continue to rotate the rod clockwise, as y'all pull the patch all the way back through the barrel and out of the sleeping room and breech. V or six full-length passes should do information technology.

2) Remove the patch and replace information technology with a contumely diameter brush. [Notation: If the bore is heavily fouled, you can squirt some cleaning solvent onto the bore brush. Alternatively, you tin dry out brush, then wet patch once again after.] Insert the rod into the barrel from the breech/sleeping room finish and vigorously scrub the entire bore, post-obit the same principle as with the patch (full-length, rotating passes). Scrub until the diameter is shiny and clean when inspected under a bright calorie-free.

3) If the diameter is heavily fouled and you used a dry diameter brush, swab the bore again five to six times with moisture patch.

4) Dampen the big end of your two-ended cleaning toothbrush with some solvent and vigorously scrub carbon deposits off of the barrel hood and feed ramp.

five) Wipe the exterior of the butt downward with a solvent-dampened rag or patch.

6) Dry out the bore by swabbing with clean, dry patches until they come out clean and dry.

7) With a dry patch, wipe down the exterior of the barrel and put aside for now.

(Left) Dry patch the bore. (Middle) Toothbrush the breech face of the slide. (Right) Wet patch the slide interior.

Step 5: Make clean the Firearm Slide

1) Belongings the slide vertically, muzzle down, use the toothbrush to brush clean the breech face up, the extractor and the surface area effectually the extractor. Keep in mind that you want to avert getting solvent into the firing pin channel. Solvent and lubricants collect dirt and grime. You don't want to cake or grease up your firing pivot and firing pin aqueduct! This could cause your gun to neglect to office.

ii) Swab the slide runway cuts and the within of the slide with a make clean, cotton Q-tip. Notice all the dirt that collects on the Q-tip!

iii) Using a slightly solvent dampened rag or patch, clean the underside/inside of the slide. You lot tin can also use the wide stop of the toothbrush to scrub the inside of the slide. Dampen the small end of the toothbrush (unmarried row of bristles) with solvent and vigorously scrub the slide rail cuts.

4) Use a clean, dry patch to wipe down the interior of the slide and slide runway.

(Left) Brush the slide runway cuts. (Heart) Brush the locking block. (Right) Castor ejector and trigger bar associates.

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Step 6: Clean the Receiver

1) Using the wide finish of your nylon cleaning toothbrush, brush off carbon deposits on the metal contact points and the locking block on the receiver. Utilize some solvent if necessary. Then use dry patches or a dry out rag to wipe off excess solvent.

two) Using the wide end of your toothbrush, castor out any unburned gunpowder and debris from the interior of the receiver.

3) Make sure to wipe clean the locking cake, the trigger bar, the connector, the cruciform and the ejector. (Run into the Glock owner's manual for a list of parts.)

Step 7: Audit the Pistol's Main Components and Function Check

Note: If your Glock fails whatever of the following inspection tests, take it inspected by an experienced, factory trained and certified Glock armorer or send information technology dorsum to Glock.

i) Barrel: Inspect your barrel for dirt, lead deposits, bulges, obstructions and cracks.

2) Firing pin and firing pivot safety:

(a) With the barrel and the recoil jump assembly removed, concur the slide with the interior facing upward. Pull the firing pivot lug all the way rearward and then ease information technology frontward until it stops as it contacts the firing pin safety. Do not let the firing pin to snap forward! Then press the firing pin lug forward with your forefinger (toward the muzzle). It should not skid forward past the firing pin condom, and it shouldn't protrude through the firing pin hole on the breech face of the slide.

(b) Hold the slide muzzle down and printing in on the firing pivot safety button in the slide'due south interior. The firing pin should move downwards and its tip should slip through the firing pin pigsty on the breech face.

(c) Retract the firing pin dorsum into the slide. Now shake the slide vigorously with the cage facing downward. The firing pin safety should prevent the firing pin from protruding through the breech face up.

(d) Depress the firing pin safety push button with your fingertips while y'all vigorously shake the slide from end to end. You should hear the firing pin moving freely within the firing pin aqueduct. If you practice non hear and feel the firing pin move, the firing pin and its channel could be caked with clay and blocked or the firing pin could exist broken. Encounter a Glock armorer.

3) Extractor: Inspect the extractor on the breech face of the slide for cleanliness and to make sure the extractor claw is not broken or chipped.

4) Ejector: The ejector is a slice of metallic that protrudes forward from the left rear of the receiver or frame. Brand sure it is make clean and not chipped or cleaved.

v) Slide end lever test: Grip the receiver in your strong hand and with the thumb and index fingers of your other hand, pull upward on the slide stop lever and let it go. It should snap downwards sharply into the frame. If information technology doesn't, there's a problem. See a Glock armorer.

(Left) Ane driblet of lubricant on the front exterior of the barrel. (Middle) One driblet of lubricant in the interior roof of the slide. (Right) 1 drop of lubricant between the connector and rear of trigger bar.

Step 8: Lubricate the Pistol

You just demand vi drops of oil. Use a quality gun lubricant/rust protective oil.

Annotation: If y'all're using a binary compound such as Pause Gratuitous CLP, make sure to milk shake the bottle vigorously to mix the ingredients before applying information technology. Lubricate the following areas in the following order:

1) Slide: Hold the slide such that the slide rail cuts face upward and the cage cease is canted slightly downwards. Using a lubricant applicator, drag 1 drop of lubricant down the entire length of each slide track cutting. That's two drops of oil. Utilize ane drop of lubricant to the front inside of the slide which rubs confronting the upper portion of the butt. That's three drops of oil. (See photos above.)

2) Butt: Wipe downward your butt's exterior with i of the oil dampened patches or the oil dampened rag that you've used for cleaning. With your lubricant applicator, utilise one drop of oil on the rear side of the barrel lug and i drop on the outside forepart of the barrel. That's five drops so far.

iii) Frame/Receiver: Hold the receiver in your strong hand, left side facing downwardly. Apply ane drop of oil to the curved, upper extension of the connector at the correct rear corner of the receiver/frame where the rear end of the trigger bar touches the connector. Hint: In this position, this upper rear extension of the connector looks like the palm of a hand. And that is six drops of oil. Done.

Footstep 9: Reassemble the Pistol and Office Check the Reassembled Glock

i) Reassemble your gun. To reassemble your Glock, reverse the disassembly steps.

2) Part examination and inspect your reassembled gun. First, make sure your reassembled gun is unloaded and proceed information technology pointed in a safe direction!

(a) Slide cycling: Rack the slide several times and brand certain the slide moves and cycles freely and smoothly.

(b) Trigger function: With the pistol facing in a safe direction, press the trigger rearward. Brand certain the trigger works.

(c) Trigger Reset: Rack the slide again to return it into battery and reset the trigger. Make sure that the trigger resets into its forward, artsy position. Next, with your pistol however pointed in a prophylactic direction, press the trigger rearward and hold it to the rear. You should hear and feel the firing pivot fall. Now, pull the slide to its about rearward position and release information technology. Later the slide has snapped into its forward, in-bombardment position, release the trigger. The trigger should reset to its forrard, artsy position. Repeat several times to exist sure.

(d) Trigger prophylactic: With your pistol pointing in a safe direction, grasp the sides of the trigger without touching or depressing the trigger rubber, which is the trigger in front of and within the trigger. The trigger safety should remain engaged and as such, forestall the trigger from moving rearward and releasing the firing pin.

(e) Inspection: Make certain the outside of your pistol is clean and free of dirt, rust, corrosion or other damage. Make sure your sights are fixed in identify and not croaky. Inspect your magazines. Brand sure that they're not dingy or damaged. Check the mag followers and feed lips to be sure the followers are not chipped and are prepare in the magazine properly and that the feed lips are not aptitude or crushed. When yous press down on the follower and release it, information technology should spring back all the style up and not stick within the magazine tube.

(f) Slide lock open test: Insert an empty magazine into your in-battery pistol. Firmly pull the slide all the way rearward and it should lock open. Repeat with each of your empty magazines. A defective magazine can prevent the slide from locking open up.

Step ten: Decide What Condition Yous Want the Gun in and Put It in That Status

Wipe your gun downwardly with a lightly oiled rag or gun fabric. At this point, decide how you lot desire your pistol. The two sensible choices are: (a) unloaded for storage (no mag in the magazine well, slide in battery and the gun decocked with the trigger pressed rearward) or (b) loaded and safely secured in a lockbox or holster. At present yous have a gun that you can rely on.

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SOURCES:

"Glock Cleaning FAQ" The Glock Papers f-r-i.com/glock/FAQ/FAQ-clean.htm
Glock Instructions for Use (User's Transmission) Glock U.s.a. 6000 Highlands Parkway, Smyrna, GA 30082 770-432-1202 Glock.com
"Speed-Make clean Your Glock!" by Gila Hayes. In Glock Autopistols. Vol. 9. No. 1. 2003. pp. 62-65.

The author wishes to thank Archetype Pistol Indoor Range and Training Institute in Southampton, PA (www.ClassicPistol.com) and Pistol People Indoor Range and Training Institute in Bensalem, PA (www.PistolPeople.com) for utilise of their fantabulous facilities and their generous aid in different phases of this author'south education about Glocks.

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Bruce Northward. Eimer, Ph.D. is a board-certified, licensed, clinical and forensic psychologist, NRA Certified Firearms Instructor, NRA Life Member, Glock Certified Armorer, a Utah Dept. of Public Safety Curtained Firearms Instructor and an Author in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the co-owner of Personal Defence Solutions, LLC, Bruce teaches concealed behave classes and NRA Bones Pistol and Personal Protection courses, as well as offering individual shooting pedagogy. He also teaches CCW classes that fix people to use for a Florida Not-Resident Concealed Deport Weapons Permit which is honored by 28 states. For more information, he can be reached by telephone at 215-938-7283 (938-SAVE) and past eastward-mail at [electronic mail protected] or [email protected] . For a schedule of upcoming classes, you tin log on to the PDS website: PersonalDefenseSolutions.net . Bruce is also the co-author, with Stephen Rementer of the Pennsylvania Lethal Weapons Institute, of the Essential Guide to Handguns: Firearm Education for Personal Defense force and Protection, which is published by: Looseleaf Law Publications – LooseLeafLaw.com, 800-647-5347

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