An old friend is getting an upgrade

Bongo Lewi

Bongo Lewi

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I'll spend a few minutes upgrading this G42 with a new connector tomorrow morning. Small and inexpensive improvement to the trigger. I've used this brand before and found their claims to be credible. Lighter and smoother pull.
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An old friend is coming to visit and she wants to do some shooting. I thought this would be a good introductory pistol for her to learn the fundamentals.
 
Done. Not a significant upgrade but it works ad advertised. It does all but eliminate the wall. The overall pull is a bit slicker.

Dirty too. Needed a good cleaning. I'll put a few rounds thru it tomorrow
 
Back to the G42.

I was wrong. Test firing this dwarf Glock, the trigger failed to reset several times. Racking the slide again cleared the problem but this is not good. So I take it back to the bench for a look-see.

There was nothing wrong that I can see visually. So I get online and look up some commentaries and reviews of the 3rd party connector I just installed. NOTE: This gun had never once failed me. Lots of rounds thru it. I have had it since the G42 was first released... 2014 if I remember right.

Ghost themselves suggest some fitment may be required on the connector. Since I did not RTFM and rarely ever had to fit a Glock or Glock-aftermarket part I didn't bother to do my homework. I figured it would be a drop-in. Wrong.

As the maker of the Ghost connector suggests may be necessary, I did some delicate filing on the connector. Put it back in, did some dry firing. Rinse and repeat until it seemed OK. Then I put some live ammo thru it to make sure. A 20 round box of ammo and it ran fine with no glitches.

It was just bad luck that the little bit of dry firing I did after initially installing the connector ... the problem did not reveal itself.
 
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Fine print..oh- read the FREAKIN. MANUAL. heeharrhee.... human condition.
 
Yes. What a huge pain in the ass. Dismantling, filing, reassemble, test, repeat. I should have bought an entire drop-in trigger assembly. Spending a couple of hours doing all that fiddle fucking around is not my idea of fun. I'd rather be shooting.

Problem is.... my go-to trigger guy Johnny G doesn't make a trigger for the G42. If he did, I'd be all over that. There aren't a lot of total drop-in choices for the G42. Meaning the complete trigger kit. The shoe, bar, connector, housing with spring and ejector. You have to use the OEM housing with most aftermarket G42 triggers. The benefits of swapping the stock trigger are marginal on the G42. Most choices for the G42 aren't that much better than factory. Lesson learned.

In hindsight, I kind of wished I hadn't bothered and left the gun alone. It was working fine. Sometimes I break my own guiding principle that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

So what's the plan?

Call me a glutton for punishment. I ordered a new OEM trigger housing just in case the original needs a refresh on the spring. This gun is 11 years old and has a lot of rounds thru it. I added a Pyramid flat trigger assembly with a matching 3.5 lb connector from Lenny (Glockstore). They build that trigger to order and test the trigger/connector assembly together. So I shouldn't have to do any fitting. I added some low profile, TruGlow lightpipe type sights to the order. The original plastic factory sights are not great as everyone knows. And mine are beat up. Might as well replace them since I will take the gun apart when the parts arrive. Again.

The barrel, striker and extractor look fine.
 
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Bongo Lewi said:
Sometimes I break my own guiding principle that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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I've given this advice out hundreds of times. Sometimes it is heeded... :rolleyes:
Another principle of mine is: "If it can't be fixed, I don't want to work on it!" ;)
 
New TruGlo sights, OEM trigger housing, stainless pins, Pyramid trigger with blue dingus and 3.5 lb connector installed. Cycles snap caps just fine. Live ammo tomorrow. I saw no reason to change anything else.

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Before putting it all together I dismantled everything and gave it an ultrasonic bath in SLIP 2000 cleaner made for that purpose.

A little Gunglo on the finish and it looks like brand new.
 
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Curmudgeon said:
Damn, she's gonna think you went out and bought that new just for her.
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Probably so. My photography skills dont do it justice. It does look new. I'd hazard a guess I've put about 3000 rounds thru it. I ditched the first gen Bodyguard for this G42 as my backup gun. That was eons ago. Glocks definitely take a licking and keep on ticking.

I would give it to her but I shy away from gifting or even selling guns in private sales. Life changes, they sell or give it to somebody else or it gets stolen. Next thing you know it ends up in an evidence locker and I get a visit. No thanks.

On the rare occasion I sell, I go thru a broker. Or a service like Guns.com - which functions something like a broker. They buy the gun from you.
 
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