Cleaning A Glock - The Glock 19 is one of America's most popular handguns, and for good reason. Reliable, accurate and easy to maintain, it's the defensive pistol of choice for everyone from soccer moms to special operators. However, it should be cleaned and lubricated regularly. We will show you how to clean your Glock 19 in the following video and text.
Kevin: I'm with Jeff Street here. Jeff is the owner and lead instructor of Step-by-Step Gun Training, he is also a certified Glock gunsmith and a bit of a Glock enthusiast. So Jeff, my first question is how often should people clean a Glock 19? We hear many different opinions on this. How do you see it?
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Jeff: If you are new to the Glock platform, you need to clean it every time you use it. This will help you become familiar with how it should look and feel. That way, if something goes wrong along the way, you'll be able to fix it, possibly before you have an actual problem with the domain.
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Kevin: You'll know right away because the spring doesn't have to be in two parts. You should not see a piece of metal that has a clean break. Something like this would be really obvious.
Kevin: Now, if you're new to a gun, here's how often you should clean it. What if you are a more experienced shooter? If you have multiple classes, how often should you clean it?
Jeff: Well, not just a few classes, but years. Okay, so I have friends who still clean their Glocks every now and then. Keeping it clean is not difficult. It's something you rely on, so why clean it a little every time?
Kevin. All right Jeff. So when a person is done shooting and they want to go home and clean their Glock 19, what procedures should they go through to unload it? We have one here that is unloaded. We both checked. It also has a small barrel block in there so we know it's unloaded. So walk us through it.
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Jeff: First thing, make sure there's no live ammo in the room except maybe in here (your rifle). Take a look before you open the holster and touch the gun to make sure the muzzle is in the safe direction. Then you are going to remove the magazine, if there is a magazine, press the mag release, pop the magazine out and check that it is empty.
Jeff: Now, when I go to touch a gun, I do it in my bathroom and I have a toilet in my bathroom. Even though it was in a hotel room, I got a toilet. I take out the gun, without touching the trigger at all, and I point it at the edge of the toilet bowl so that it comes out, the bullet will enter the water, slow down there, hit the porcelain and stop there. It will ruin the toilet, which I don't want to do anything about. I have to turn off the water valve to avoid flooding the house and I have to call my plumber, so I am very motivated not to do that. Then I racked the slide three times and of course put my finger on the magazine to make sure it wasn't the magazine I just fired. I rack it three times. That way, if I do it and cock it once, I might see a round come out, but if I see another round come out, I probably haven't ejected the magazine yet.
So after I tap it three times, I'm going to close the slide open. If you are a person with very short fingers, you may have to turn your body, but you should still point your muzzle at the toilet bowl. Then you close the open slide and then check again. You put your finger in the chamber to make sure there is no magazine and no rounds and you look down through the maguga to see daylight. You check both visually and tactilely to make sure the gun is fully unloaded. Now I'm still pointing at the toilet bowl. With a Glock, you have to pull the trigger to set it. Whatever gun it is, I don't shoot it out with a bullet in the chamber. I'll let the slide go forward and, once again pointing at the toilet bowl, pull the trigger. Then I have to release the spring tension and pull the slide back a bit. It's a bit small and you feel a bit of a squeeze when you do it. Then, it has a release lever here. It is a slide release and you have to pull it on both sides at exactly the same time. Then let the slide come forward. It comes out right. Now I have the frame and I have the slide. On the slide I will remove the recoil spring and barrel. We basically have four main parts that we are going to clean.
Jeff: Now we've broken down the gun into its four main parts. If you take a nylon brush, you can also use a toothbrush if you want (just don't use your toothbrush) and you will blow away as much carbon as possible. Just a brush, and you want to use a nylon brush. You don't want to use any kind of wire brush because you're going to scrape things off and tear up your gun on the inside. Do the same with slides. It's really good with brushes and barrels. Go ahead and clean it up, get the most of it.
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If you have really stubborn carbon build-up and want to get it out of there, I recommend something that doesn't smell like breakthrough clean. You spray it on and it's odorless so you can do it inside your home. Let it soak a little. Then you go over it with Q-tips. You just walk around and look for dirt. Do not leave large pieces of cotton from the Q-tip inside your gun. When you get that and you see the q-tips are dirty here and you go through some q-tips, get it nice and clean.
Now you need to reassemble your gun and prime your gun, but before you do that you need to clean the inside of your barrel. What I recommend for this is a slow snake. What is a slow snake, it has a weight on its side, it has a thread, and then it has fabric. It has a bristle brush built right into it. Now this is metal, but metal that is softer than your gun metal so it won't scratch your gun. If you see a bit of carbon here or anywhere else on the feed ramp, you don't want to take a sharp, hard piece of metal and scrape it off. These pieces have a finish all over and you don't want to ruin that finish. After removing the barrel from the gun, I release the weight through the barrel. I pull it and pull it a few times. It takes two or three times. If you want to check it out and see how well a dull snake works, you can run a regular old fashioned patch through your barrel and see if it's not dirty. After you run your boring snake through there.
Now you need to oil your Glock 19. I have a nice little needle and I just use motor oil, but you can use your favorite gun oil and oil you channels. The barrel is where you seal the oil. Place a loop around the barrel here and jump onto it. Then, slide the frame and cap as well right where it rubs against the top of the barrel. Then we have to lubricate the connector, which is here, and I put a little drop on the drip protection.
Let me go ahead and reassemble the gun. Put the barrel back in, put the recoil spring back in, and then we want to put the slide. You have to go on these two trains. Some people think you have to start here, but you start here on the rails.
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Now we have to test the gun. We're still going to point the gun in that toilet when we pull the trigger and I'm going
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