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Originally Posted by Wepeel
Yes, I meant the slide and not the frame.
Who makes these aluminium slide stops? I never liked using steel parts that make contact with the aluminium slide because the slide is rather expensive to replace.
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Die cast aluminum: Nine Ball (for Hi-Capa), Tanio Koba, or the OEM part.
Machined aluminum: AIP
Why not slingshot the slide to release it? It's the exact same issue with real guns. Slides are considered to be a consumable item due to wear in multiple areas. The slide catch notch is one area that suffers from a rate of attrition. Certain factors will speed up the rate of wear, such as the recoil spring weight, the materials of the two parts, and more importantly, how the user engages the two components.
As long as you're disengaging the slide lock via that catch, you should fully expect to replace your slide over time.
Slingshotting is one great way to reduce wear.
Even with an aluminum slide stop, because of the way the slide stop is engineered relative to the slide, you will still get a deformation of the notch over time, as you are forcing a square corner to ride over the slide stop. This now takes in to account geometric engineering. Switching to an aluminum slide stop will slow the rate of deformation down, but it would still occur. You will just experience a more balanced rate of wear between the two parts.
Swapping the slide catch to a softer material will NOT completely resolve your issue. I know for certain it will not completely solve your problem. It just slows it down.
The best solution, is to fix the actual source of the problem, which is the user (ie, YOU.) Slingshot the slide. Minimize releasing the slide by the slide stop, or else you should completely expect to have to shell out money to for replacement slides.
Otherwise, start saving pennies for replacement slides when the notch is completely worn to the point of being unusable.
You can extend the life of the slide further, by filing the catch portion square again, when it's become completely worn to the point of no longer catching. This fix has a finite limit of repeatability, as there's only so much you can file off, till the slide sits too far forward to properly strip the next round off a fresh mag and load it in to the chamber. This will force you to manually slingshot the slide anyways.