TGO David

Poll added.

@ group buy Red is perfect for a sight screw. You don't want that to come loose. A grip panel is another story. I remove my grip panels periodically to clean beneath them as part of a thorough detail strip. Therefore blue Loctite is perfect for them. But I don't remove my rear sight as part of a detail strip. Do you?

Make sure you put those suckers on there with green Loctite too! (just kidding)

They're going to wonder why Len has so many addresses, but I'm ordering mine right now.

For an additional $100 an hour, I'll dress like Little Bo Peep and call you "Daddy" if that's what you want.

My fee is door to door and my hourly rate hovers around $200. The clock starts ticking when I hang up the phone and doesn't stop until I'm back in bed. ( Edit -- And that's a no **** answer. I'm really good at what I do. )

That they are both wrong and that their recommendation is overkill. I'm surprised they didn't recommend green Loctite just so that they would never have to worry about the customer calling back and saying, "Um... my screw is loose again." Seriously, anyone who has twisted a wrench for more than a few days knows that you can start out with the least invasive (or permanent) solution first and if that doesn't work, you can step up to the next level. There's no sense tig welding a screw if a little Blue loctite will work.

Your gunsmiths don't have access to Gun Scrubber or aerosol brake parts cleaner???

Not to be a dick, but that really doesn't mean anything to me. Note the cop in the picture below. He's the only one professional enough in that room to hold that gun.

Never had that problem. Blue Loctite has worked fine for me for several years. Hell, I've got zero thread locker on my Wilson right now and the grip screws haven't moved a bit. I stand by my recommendation to try Blue first and then move to Red if it becomes necessary. His bushings aren't going to wallow and cause damage if he pays attention to the screws for the first couple of range sessions and makes a decision based off of what he sees.

And just because I didn't feel like reinventing the wheel when I could just copy and paste what someone else had already done... http://www.bikernet.com/garage/loctitetech.asp Read it. Make your own decisions based off of that. For what it's worth, I save red Loctite for heavy duty things like... the bolts that hold my brake calipers to their mounting brackets on my cars. I use blue Loctite for things like machine screws on gun parts, unless there will be enough heat or torque to loosen blue up. I really wouldn't recommend red Loctite for a grip panel, but whatever floats your boat.

I realize that JWP knows his stuff, but I'd try Blue loctite first as it's not *AS* strong as red. If the blue doesn't work and allows the screw to loosen up eventually, then switch to red. Red is the more permanent of the two.

Starbucks FTL

I need to find the thread from Glocktalk where some sub-genius used a little JB Weld on his. It was one of those mistakes that took about 3-4 years to come to fruition, but he was uber pissed when he bought new grip panels and realized the old ones weren't gonna come off.

So this all begs the question... do SF guys carry finger nail polish with them in the field?

Shooting other people's guns... getting comp tickets to movies... I need to take some lessons from you!

I had one of those. A Smyrna PD officer confiscated it. Actually he bought it from me. I miss it.

Joe, will the customer be able to rotate the caddy inside somehow or will that require a salesperson's assistance?

I like the idea that a gun shop will assume that their guns will sell themselves to the right people. Along those same lines, I would encourage gun shop owners and employees to have patience with customers who come in and look at the same guns over and over, or look at a lot of different guns but don't appear to be ready or willing to buy. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't spend money easily but spends big when I do. Because of that I window shop and I do it a lot. It takes me some time to decide exactly what I want, and holding, fondling, playing with different guns helps me make that decision. I stopped going to Specialty Arms in LaVergne after their clerk was pretty impatient with me for wanting to see a few different guns back before I bought my first Glock 27. It pissed me off to no end when I heard the guy mutter to another customer who wanted to interrupt, "Don't worry ... he's not going to buy anything anyway." I bought my Glock 27 later that same day from On Target and made it a point to go back to Specialty Arms and show it to the jackass. The small profit margin that he lost on my one sale may not have ammounted to much, but if he treated ten other prospective customers that same way the money starts adding up. You don't always know how many sales you are losing because not everyone is enough of an a-hole (like me) to come back and tell you that you lost their business.

Looking good!

I have carried my Glock 19 in my Comp-Tac MTAC holster daily for about 4 months now with zero holster wear. YMMV.

My Noveske KX3 flash hider arrived on Friday and is a pretty neat little piece of metal. The fire breathing pig laser engraved on the side is a fun touch. I was also pleased to see that Noveske includes a crush washer in the package. Not a big deal but a very pleasant detail that I assumed would be overlooked and was happy to be wrong about. Next up on my shopping list: ADM AD-68H optic mount for an Aimpoint Vltor Off Set Scout Mount for flashlight Following that: Aimpoint Comp M3 optic Hopefully by the time I am able to afford the optic, I will also have my tax stamp and be clear to purchase the upper and assemble the rifle. That would be around the October time frame.

Sure, people occasionally sell 6.8 SPC uppers used. I don't think it happens as often as people sell 5.56 uppers used, but it does happen. A quick glance at GunBroker.com shows that a complete upper will run you anywhere from $600'ish to over $1000 depending on manufacturer and kit.

That's just asking for trouble!

Will you want to use it as a 5.56/.223 periodically or will this be a one-time conversion? The reason I ask is because you can do this the cheap way or the slightly more expensive albeit more convenient way.