Dieseltech09
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What if any advantages or improvements would you get by using a titanium striker and safety plunger in a glock. The ads claim an Increase in accuracy and smoother trigger pull. Anyone here use these in their glocks?
Titanium striker and plunger ?
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mike cyrwus
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only useful to help ignite non federal primers in glock triggers that are brought down to below 3#.
They also suggest changing them after 6000 rounds!
no advantage with using a tit. plunger, other than lightening your wallet.
no thanks.
Dieseltech09
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Thanks for the info Mike
Scott Hearn
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I'm real skeptical of titanium gun parts. It seems that they always make the wrong parts out of it and I'm sure that's because of the cost. They should be making frames out of it. Titanium has a very good strength/weight ratio. It has fantastic fatigue resistance too, this makes it real good in structural applications.
It's tough and somewhat hard to machine but it's actual surface hardness isn't very high and it doesn't have much wear resistance. It also has super good resistance to heat except that it doesn't like to be exposed to direct flame contact at all. I think that the titanium cylinder revolvers are going to be a short lived affair because of this.
I'd say that Mike's "lightening your wallet" comment is right on...
It's tough and somewhat hard to machine but it's actual surface hardness isn't very high and it doesn't have much wear resistance. It also has super good resistance to heat except that it doesn't like to be exposed to direct flame contact at all. I think that the titanium cylinder revolvers are going to be a short lived affair because of this.
I'd say that Mike's "lightening your wallet" comment is right on...
jtischauser
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What about lightened steel strikers compared to titanium. They seem like a good idea?
ChrisC
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if its a range gun only.... I wouldn't put aftermarket parts in a carry gun other than sights. I don't think a firing pins going to make enough difference other that like Mike said...... in your wallet. Stick with factory parts and buy ammo to practice with....
Rockon71385
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With regard to the striker: What Mike said. If you run a reduced power firing pin spring, you need to run a lightened firing pin(I was corrected at the glock armorers class last month when I called it a striker - go figure) to get reliable ignition on CCI and winchester primers. I personally like the combination. It can make your trigger pull a little bit mushy, but I like to go as light as I can. I don't use the titanium part, just the lightened stainless steel model from Lightning Strike with a 4# wolff firing pin spring. I get reliable ignition with all primers except wolf, and I like the trigger pull it yields.
I'm going to differ from the rest here about the safety plunger. I use an aftermarket one in both of my competition guns. I don't know if they're titanium or not. The main feature that I like about them is that the curve at the bottom is a smooth and rounded instead of being angled and flat like on the stock one. IMHO, if glock really wanted to create "Perfection" they would have rounded off the stock ones to be nice and smooth. You can shape and polish a stock part to work just as well. The improved shape of the plunger paired with the reduced power plunger spring they come with takes the last little bit of slop(I always think of it as the false wall. I hit the FP plunger thinking I've taken the slack out, only to squeeze the shot and have the trigger creep a bit longer before the shot actually breaks.) out of the trigger pull when you get to very low weight pulls.
All that said, if you really want a better trigger pull just save your money and take it to Mike from the beginning. Trying out different parts only to realize you don't like them or that they negatively affect reliability, then having to order different parts and lose matches because you have jams, etc is a huge pain in the ass that costs way more time and money than a professional trigger job from someone reputable like Accurate Iron. If I could do it over, I would have had Mike do my trigger and I would have some money in my pocket instead of a box of extra parts that didn't work out.
I'm going to differ from the rest here about the safety plunger. I use an aftermarket one in both of my competition guns. I don't know if they're titanium or not. The main feature that I like about them is that the curve at the bottom is a smooth and rounded instead of being angled and flat like on the stock one. IMHO, if glock really wanted to create "Perfection" they would have rounded off the stock ones to be nice and smooth. You can shape and polish a stock part to work just as well. The improved shape of the plunger paired with the reduced power plunger spring they come with takes the last little bit of slop(I always think of it as the false wall. I hit the FP plunger thinking I've taken the slack out, only to squeeze the shot and have the trigger creep a bit longer before the shot actually breaks.) out of the trigger pull when you get to very low weight pulls.
All that said, if you really want a better trigger pull just save your money and take it to Mike from the beginning. Trying out different parts only to realize you don't like them or that they negatively affect reliability, then having to order different parts and lose matches because you have jams, etc is a huge pain in the ass that costs way more time and money than a professional trigger job from someone reputable like Accurate Iron. If I could do it over, I would have had Mike do my trigger and I would have some money in my pocket instead of a box of extra parts that didn't work out.
jtischauser
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Your explanation for improving this part makes perfect sense. I don't know if mine is polished or not after the Accurate IRon tirgger job. Mike?
What aftermarket component do you use?
Rockon71385
Founding Member
Both of my guns have:
+power trigger spring
-power striker spring
Stainless Steel Lightened Striker
Lightning strike safety plunger
Lonewolf connector
Pre and Post travel adjustment screws in the trigger housing
Steel Guide Rod & Flat wound recoil spring
Warren tactical sights
I'm pretty sure that's it.
mike cyrwus
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shes polished and radiused slightly.
