I have a Glock 43 that I want to install the TangoDown extended slide release on. I cannot get the trigger pin to come out! I've watched the YouTube videos of installation, put a drop of oil on the pin and let it sit, tapped it with a hammer, wiggled the slide release while pressing firmly with a punch...
What else can I try? I've been through a couple of Glock Armorer courses so I'm pretty red in the face over this
Thanks,
Bruce
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September 06, 2017, 12:38 PM
AZSigs
You did remove the locking block pin first didn't you?
Push from left to right using the punch.
The trigger pin has a small groove in which the slide stop lever rests. It may be necessary to move the slide stop lever up/down and forward/back to center the slide stop lever over the trigger pin. It is important to keep constant pressure on the trigger pin while moving the slide stop lever. Do not use excessive force. If it is difficult to move the slide stop lever in any direction the trigger pin is bound. Turn the receiver over and push the pin back slightly in the opposite direction. This should unbind the trigger pin and you should be able to start again.
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September 06, 2017, 04:03 PM
RNshooter
The 43 is kind of a unicorn: no locking block pin. The other suggestions I have tried.
Bruce
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
September 06, 2017, 04:18 PM
parabellum
You have to press down on the forward portion of the slide stop, while pushing out the trigger pin.
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September 06, 2017, 04:38 PM
RNshooter
Thanks, Para. I'll try that tonight.
Bruce
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
September 06, 2017, 07:51 PM
parabellum
September 06, 2017, 10:45 PM
RNshooter
And he pushed it out from right to left? I can't wait to get home to try this. Thanks.
Bruce
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
September 07, 2017, 06:24 AM
parabellum
It doesn't matter, really.
September 07, 2017, 09:13 AM
RNshooter
Well, that was easy And the wife loves the new slide release. Glad I bought two Thanks again.
Bruce
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
