The dreaded ping...Glock firing pin safety gone missing

**Maroelas** · 29-01-2017, 09:33

We torched the whole garage

Will try the magnet

**A-R** · 29-01-2017, 10:50

Check inside your shoes too...

**Maroelas** · 29-01-2017, 11:08

Just found the little rat bastard!

It didn't fell into an obscurely placed baby swing!

**Thudrukis** · 29-01-2017, 11:16

I call it a pingfuket when something like that happens.

**Skaaphaas** · 29-01-2017, 11:19

Originally Posted by Maroelas

Just found the little rat bastard!

It didn't fell into an obscurely placed baby swing!

And its spring?

**Maroelas** · 29-01-2017, 11:27

Originally Posted by Skaaphaas

And its spring?

Yip, fully intact!

**Taranis** · 29-01-2017, 15:35

There's a school of thought that says you shouldn't detail strip a Glock too often. They weren't designed for it.

**BigT** · 29-01-2017, 15:55

Originally Posted by Taranis

There's a school of thought that says you shouldn't detail strip a Glock too often. They weren't designed for it.

I would say that about most mechanical devices.

**Wanderin' Zero** · 29-01-2017, 16:17

Military manuals not unusually note that stripping causes wear.

**Quicksilver_WP** · 29-01-2017, 17:15

Maroelas, glad you found it. And feel your pain at that moment. Something similar happened to me last year. Somehow when pushing out the locking block pin, it flew out and bounced off the table. Took a good hour or 2 of grid searching the tiled floors in 3 rooms (open plan -ish) to find it ... nestled nicely in a grouting groove between 2 tiles, on the far side, about 4m from the scene of the whoops, to obfuscate it's presence surrounded the light-hued tiles.

My first thought when my cursory search turned up nothing was "better mail BigT to get one sent down". Fortunately it was a sporting G23, so not that urgent.