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Anyone here has any experience with the new slide coating that Glock has been using in the last few months? It seems like they moved away from the Teflon like coating to spray painting one WTF.
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Anyone here has any experience with the new slide coating that Glock has been using in the last few months? It seems like they moved away from the Teflon like coating to spray painting one WTF.
I do kinda wish they had just stuck with the gloss black one that was on a lot of their guns at one point.
-Mike
Are you talking gen4? I have a gen3 g17 and a gen4 g26. I prefer the feel of the gen3 finish. The gen4 finish feels too slick for me. I do think it looks slightly better though. But saying a glock looks good isn't much.
My gen4 g26 was purchased about a month ago, so I'd assume it has to coating you're referring to.
My understanding was, they had to move away from the Tenifer finish for guns manufactured in the U.S. The E.P.A. did not approve the chemicals used in the process.
My understanding was, they had to move away from the Tenifer finish for guns manufactured in the U.S. The E.P.A. did not approve the chemicals used in the process.
Whether the bit about tenifer is true or not, why are there like 4 different finishes since 2008?
-Mike
I tried capturing how it looks, it's not slick but matte and smooth.
The older Tenifer and newer Melonite is not what gives the slide it's color. They are metal treatments that permeate a minuscule amount into the surface of the metal itself, protecting it from corrosion. They used to use Tenifer when all the models were manufactured in Austria. The newer Melonite process is because of the EPA's stricter guidelines when manufacturing in America. The color on the slide, wether it be the older gloss black, the newer matte greyish or any other shade of black in between is simply parkerizing, black oxide or bluing and are all just surface treatments after the Tenifer or Melonite had already been applied.
The only Glock I have is a Gen 4 17. The slide finish is dark grey with a slightly rough texture. It's quite different than the black, smooth finish my HKs have.
Anyone here has any experience with the new slide coating that Glock has been using in the last few months? It seems like they moved away from the Teflon like coating to spray painting one WTF.
They changed it a few years ago actually.
Pretty sure a lot of people here have the wrong idea about Tenifer. It goes steel, Tenifer, finish. The finish that you see and feel is on top of the much harder Tenifer and if your Glock has Austria stamped on the slide my understanding is that there is Tenifer under the finish. I understand the USA stamped Glocks don't have it for regulatory reasons.
Seems like every time Glock changes the finish people aren't happy with it. They changed it to the gray-ish, slicker finish that I have on my Gen 4 and everyone said they missed the less slippery black finish. Now they seem to have gone back to a less slippery black finish and everyone wants gray back. I say it's a Glock. If you don't like the finish get it Cerekoted and call it a day.
The finish the OP posted pics of is definitely different than my 2012 Gen 4.