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Originally Posted by Danke
OK I pressed the button last week and have a G17 slide and barrel on the way. Now I need all the rest. TM will be the flavor.
What's the lowdown on G-17 vs. G18C? Can you drop a G17 slide on a G18 and have it run other than no more select fire? Could you take a G18 frame and do a complete strip and then drop in the full G17 lower pack?
I am thinking right now that it might be easiest to get 2-3 pistols and mix and match parts till I get what I want started. Then rebuild the stripped pistols, sell them off and carry on tuning the #1.
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The Glock 18c and G17 are completely different in their hammer and BBU.
You can't mix and match them.
The hammer housing is different on the G18c because it has to house the full auto auto sear. It contains an extra pin to hold it into place. The hammer housing is also different and you wont be able to run the G17 hammer assembly without having a lot of problems.
The trigger bar for the both models is different. The G18c has a thickier trigger bar. You'll need to modify it to fit into a G17 hammer housing.
The BBH will not fit a G17 slide. The locking tabs are different on the G18c and will not be accommodated on a G17 slide. You COULD mount the G18c slide on a G17 lower but it will not function unless you heavily modify it to trip or not trip the full auto sear.
The rear sights are also different from one another. The G17 has a longer sight post than the G18c.
This is a complete list of of thernals you can interchange between the two:
The trigger
The front chassis
the safety tag
the hop unit
Inner barrel
bucking
front sight
slide lock
The frame
The two body pins
the rear locking screw for the hammer mech
The sear
the valve knocker
the sear spring
The recoil spring and spring guide
The slide catch
the magazine lock
The floating valve and spring.
You can't drop in the hammer housing, the bbh, and loading muzzle and the piston head, the hammer bearing, the hammer the trigger bar (but you can mod it to fit) the hammer springs....
I think that's all of it....