Thanks for the video. I recently built my p80 compact. While in Vegas recently I went to a local indoor range and had problems with my slide not fully cycling. Got home and watched a ton of RU-vid videos and everyone had a different idea which didn't help me much at all. Then I found your video and it came to me like a light was turned on, I remembered having issues reinstalling the slide after having it taken apart and realized with your help that is where my problem is. Thank you
For anyone doing a build with a bunch of different brands, always keep in mind that not all parts are going to work smoothly with each other. Always do proper research so you fully understand what parts work together, and what parts don’t. After my first P80 I realized that you really get what you pay for in terms of parts. I feel getting a lower parts kit designed for the P80 frame would be the safest option and researching the slide you want to make sure it works well with the frame. Paying good money for parts that don’t work is extremely frustrating and it can quickly take the fun out of a build. And you’ll find yourself doing a ton of research trying to get it to work so just do proper research beforehand so you know exactly what you’re buying and if it’s compatible with your other components. No need to rush or panic buy when it comes to builds
Whether a person buys cheap parts or top tier...you're going to run into problems. Why? Because a person buys a barrel from this company, and frame parts from this company, and slide parts from another company. It's called Tolerance Stacking
You have to be very careful filing the feed ramp in barrel. Removing too much will interfear in the head spacing and exposing too much of the bottom of the shell! That will create a very bad situation. The best thing to do is ONLY focus on the top edge of the feed ramp with just a slight cleaning of the "edge" or "burr" and NOT AROUND PAST the feed ramp! Thats when you start screwing with HEAD SPACING. I would have started with ONLY a polish Job first to give it a glass smooth surface for the bullet to glide over. That itself will remove the burrs or any sharp edge from the ramp and chamber point. If that doesn't solve, then do a slight fine file clean up, barley Removing any material and then a polish job and test again. You want to do incremental cleanup since you CANT put material back. I see a lot was removed around the side of the chamber also. Also the firing pin plunger looks like it did not have any sort of bevel or very little around the edge, looks squared off. You want the trigger bar with its "PROPER" angle geometry match the Angle of the Bevel angle of the plunger. By removing the material from the tigger bar, your just decreasing its resistance to press the plunger in. If you match the bevel angle of the plunger, the two matching angles will not resist and wont have any premature wear issues. Now the tab has to slide across squared off edge of the plunger. Its a whole lot cheaper to mod the plunger than it is to mod the bar, especially if you make a mistake, or eventually having to replace in future. Just giving you my experience in dealing with all the "off tolerance" of the P80. But POLISHING ALL CONTACT POINTS is Number ONE! Polish all the parts, makes a HUGE difference in feel. Thanks for sharing and hopefully with everyone giving their experiences we can have better and safer guns to shoot and enjoy this fun hobby and sport or self defense.
So it shoots a two shot burst is what you’re saying? If that’s the case I would say you have something wrong with your trigger assembly or firing pin safety
That’s how you truly learn how guns work and what causes problems. I started doing some gun smithing with all my trial and errors. The trial and errors are with your own equipment of course.
why does my trigger go dead if you will, when i put my magazine in. the trigger resets without the mag but once i put the magazine in i hear a click and the trigger just goes down when i try to fire. or if the trigger is already down and i release the slide to chamber a round the trigger sometimes doesn’t reset at all. it’ll stay down. help?
@@GHicks-lu5tu that’s not the point, this video is to show how to make stuff work. Obviously we could just go buy a brand new complete gun but… us men like to tinker
Did you view it on a computer or phone? It always seems to me the music is low compared to the original video volume but others have said the music was loud.
@@chickchickboom324 Thank you for your response. The so-called "music" is far too loud. Just a bunch of techno-electro hash. Very unprofessional & distracting. Please take this sincere comment on board, rather than questioning its veracity. If you're hearing this from "others", then it's probably true as far as the normal viewer is concerned.
@@chickchickboom324ain’t nothing wrong with a bit of five finger! I was watching on my phone and it wasn’t louder than your voice but I definitely had to focus on your voice bc the music can be distracting if you aren’t paying attention
Do any of you guys know how to push the slide lock lever down in the channel it won’t go in fully does this mean I have to cut the channel down more where it is?
Bro, put those thumbs on the pistol and not in the air, stop taking your finger off the trigger and use the trigger reset and last thing. You were anticipating the rounds because it showed when you went Winchester.
I added the gas pedal take down lever after this video and this video was quite a while ago. It’s always a work in progress but in this video I was just having fun. Perhaps I’ll make another video with my p320 and put on a better performance for you lol
I own a rock slide - the liner has scotch tape on it to hold it in place because the machining is so off from specification. The tape was literally recommended by rock slide. I do wonder at what point the tape will fail and the slide will malfunction.
@@NOLACKINGSLIME did you see that part of the video about sanding that ridge down smooth where the feed ramp enters the barrel? Take a round and manually slide it up the ramp with your fingers and see if you feel the brass catching
@@chickchickboom324 the only part I felt was catching is where the outline of the casing and the tip of the bullet began select the part that separates the two if that makes sense . I don’t know if that’s normal though then again, I don’t know a lot about guns , but other than that the bridge where the bullet enters the chamber looks smooth.
