Have not owned or shot a Glock for 20 years. Then last week a friend gave me a new ZEV G35 slide. So spent some time trying to figure out a way to put this together as a inexpensive shooter. Bought a new complete Gen3 model 17 lower, NIB & some mags off GunBroker, ordered a 9mm conversion barrel from KKM, a OEM slide parts kit from Midway and some factory sights off Ebay. I figure with the free slide and 5 mags I will have $430 in this project which hopefully is not grossly more than I should. I guess I should have registered here and asked before I bought all the parts but I have wasted more money in the past without having anything to show for it but a headache the next morning. I was told the slide parts are pretty much plug & play. Everything should be here except the barrel next week. Is there anything I need to be careful about or I have forgotten?
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Ken114
Did you just wake up from a LSD trip?
Return the parts, and buy a complete NEW gun for just about $20-30 more. Save us all a lot of bs Q&A posts of the same things discussed over the past 20 years.
Return the parts, and buy a complete NEW gun for just about $20-30 more. Save us all a lot of bs Q&A posts of the same things discussed over the past 20 years.
Crying out loud. Some people like to build/assemble things. If you don't want to hear about it, don't follow the thread.
OP, the PTOOMA manual is a great reference. Also recommend it.
The side is one of the higher priced items, so I suspect you can come in under the price of a bought Glock, and get some satisfaction from building it (and learning more about how it works than those who go out and buy Glocks). There's less that 50 parts, and there's not much mystery in how they go together. No fitting required; much easier than a 1911.
Don't be afraid to go with a LW barrel (I have several, and they work fine). For a lower, you might consider a Polymer 80 (an 80% lower that you can complete fairly easily). There are several threads here on finishing the Poly80. My lower works great, and has a permanent home with my AA 22LR upper.
Look at it as the ultimate customized glock. Enjoy the process.
OP, the PTOOMA manual is a great reference. Also recommend it.
The side is one of the higher priced items, so I suspect you can come in under the price of a bought Glock, and get some satisfaction from building it (and learning more about how it works than those who go out and buy Glocks). There's less that 50 parts, and there's not much mystery in how they go together. No fitting required; much easier than a 1911.
Don't be afraid to go with a LW barrel (I have several, and they work fine). For a lower, you might consider a Polymer 80 (an 80% lower that you can complete fairly easily). There are several threads here on finishing the Poly80. My lower works great, and has a permanent home with my AA 22LR upper.
Look at it as the ultimate customized glock. Enjoy the process.
LSD trip, well no but I will admit that much of the 70's is a blur. But a big thanks for your help & suggestion . Yours is probably the best idea (if I really had my heart set on owning a Glock) but my friend gave me the ZEV slide with the expectation I would do something with it (besides flipping it & putting a few dollars in my pocket) so I am buying parts to try & put it together.
Hey Ken114
Couple of options -
1) Have a local gun store that has a Glock Armorer put together your slide
2) For the cost of paying an Armorer, you can purchase the PTOOMA Glock Manual from LoneWolfDistributing (Amazon has it too! Who Knew?) and you will know ALL you need to know about Glocks!
3) Give it a whirl assembling it yourself or with another more experience Glock buddy of yours, then celebrate with an adult beverage and hit him with a couple bucks.
If you are mechanically inclined, it may be easier than you think. The lower is a complete assembled unit, hopefully the OEM Slide Parts Kit included the Recoil Spring Assembly, so you should be good to go parts wise.
Hopefully that gives you the information you need to make the next decision!
Couple of options -
1) Have a local gun store that has a Glock Armorer put together your slide
2) For the cost of paying an Armorer, you can purchase the PTOOMA Glock Manual from LoneWolfDistributing (Amazon has it too! Who Knew?) and you will know ALL you need to know about Glocks!
3) Give it a whirl assembling it yourself or with another more experience Glock buddy of yours, then celebrate with an adult beverage and hit him with a couple bucks.
If you are mechanically inclined, it may be easier than you think. The lower is a complete assembled unit, hopefully the OEM Slide Parts Kit included the Recoil Spring Assembly, so you should be good to go parts wise.
Hopefully that gives you the information you need to make the next decision!
Putting a slide together for a Glock is extremely simple. The mechanism is not at all complex, there is usually no "fitting" required. I think most 4 year olds could figure it out.
I would however suggest using Glock OEM parts for your Zev slide.
I recently built a Polymer80 into a Not-A-Glock-17 using a Swenson slide and a LoneWolf barrel. At first, I installed a Wolff competition spring kit to lower the trigger pull but experienced failures to fire. After installing an OEM firing pin spring, the gun functions perfectly. All internal parts used in my build are Glock OEM except the slide, barrel, trigger spring and firing pin safety spring. Now, I have a 5-1/4 pound trigger pull and have done the 25 cent trigger job. Glock claims a 5.5 pound trigger using stock parts, but either my gauge is 1 pound off, or I had 6-1/2 pound pull with all original parts.
If you start experimenting with aftermarket trigger parts, you should not count on the weapon for self defense. This seems to be a good general rule for most weapons.
I would however suggest using Glock OEM parts for your Zev slide.
I recently built a Polymer80 into a Not-A-Glock-17 using a Swenson slide and a LoneWolf barrel. At first, I installed a Wolff competition spring kit to lower the trigger pull but experienced failures to fire. After installing an OEM firing pin spring, the gun functions perfectly. All internal parts used in my build are Glock OEM except the slide, barrel, trigger spring and firing pin safety spring. Now, I have a 5-1/4 pound trigger pull and have done the 25 cent trigger job. Glock claims a 5.5 pound trigger using stock parts, but either my gauge is 1 pound off, or I had 6-1/2 pound pull with all original parts.
If you start experimenting with aftermarket trigger parts, you should not count on the weapon for self defense. This seems to be a good general rule for most weapons.
As a follow up, all the parts went together without any drama. I found that it did not want to run smoothly at first with some cheap Remington 115gr hardball. I next tried running a couple of boxes of hotter ammo through it & these ran without a hitch. The gun now works even with the cheap ammo so I assume it just needed to be broken in a little. All good.
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