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Dern_Humpus
11-08-2008, 11:26 PM
How often do you go in and clean out your firing pin, channel, and block? Any good way to clean the block?
AWD
11-09-2008, 12:46 AM
How often do you go in and clean out your firing pin, channel, and block? Any good way to clean the block?

You really don't need to worry unless you just get bored one day and want to clean it out. Did mine a few hundred rounds ago... it was easy enough. Just need the right roll pin punch and a small hammer. A .22 bore mop fits PERFECTLY in the firing pin channel for cleaning. Don't lose the FPB spring, it likes to jump out at you!

AWD
BytorJr
11-09-2008, 01:17 AM
I've always wondered about this ever since a friend of mine has had the firing pin stick due to dirt on a Glock 19 and he's very religious about field stripping and cleaning. Thinks it may have been caused by some scrubber like stuff building up a varnish-like finish on the pin.
Dern_Humpus
11-09-2008, 04:34 AM
Took me a while to figure out how to put it back together.
BytorJr
11-09-2008, 05:17 PM
What problems did you run into?
Dern_Humpus
11-09-2008, 05:36 PM
Well, I was trying to use the manual on the LEM lightening to get it back together. I didn't realize you had to hold the whole thing together while inserting the roll pin to get it to stay. I didn't get a whole lot of dirt out of it anyway. I wouldnt worry about it unless you have a TON of rounds through it. I'm not sure of my round count, but it isnt huge by any means.
BytorJr
11-09-2008, 06:58 PM
I wonder if 6000 rounds counts as a ton :)?
Black
11-09-2008, 09:36 PM
Well, I was trying to use the manual on the LEM lightening to get it back together. I didn't realize you had to hold the whole thing together while inserting the roll pin to get it to stay. I didn't get a whole lot of dirt out of it anyway. I wouldnt worry about it unless you have a TON of rounds through it. I'm not sure of my round count, but it isnt huge by any means.

Yes while standing on you head...I'd like to meet the engineer who designed that. (it was someone who never thought you'd have to take it apart.

As for cleaning you can easily go a couple of thousand rounds between cleaning, providing the ammo you use is not too dirty. It more important to keel you extractor clean (the gummy stuff that builds up behind it) since it will cause problems before the firing pin...