TM Glock SPRINGER owners! Please Look Here!

[Mysteryfish]

Hey all you Marui Glock springer owners:

I have a question, regarding the different grades of TM springers.

Those of you who own the HGHU (High Grade Hop Up) version of the Glock 17, would you mind taking a quick look at your pistols to clear up some details for me?

I was under the impression that the HGHU pistols didn't have separate halves on the slides, nor did they have visible screws.

For the record, this HGHU version should come in a simple box with a sortof "tan-grey" colour, white and black text, with a patch of yellow on the warning womewhere. The styrofoam is a sort of salmon pink.

If your gun has (or doesn't have) separate halves on the slide, please let me know!

Thanks.

[CDN_Stalker]

My TM G17 springer is HGHU and the slide separates into two halves. To take it off, you have to pry out the rear peice of the slide, and undo the screw inside the rear sight. From there I think you just have to pull the slide apart. It's held together by pins inside.

[Mysteryfish]

Ah, okay - I was just under the impression that separate molds for the slide halves was something from the older versions of the spring pistols.

There's the:

- Springers (non high grade, no hop up)
- High Grade (new box style, still no hop-up I think) //
--------Or maybe the other way around. Hop-up but not High Grade

- High Grade Hop-up. The full meal deal. Nice molds, good plastic, hop up, etc.

I found a website a long time ago that indicated the differences in the box styles and details of the guns.

Anyways, thanks for the info! Hopefully this is a long-lived pistol, i'm going to be using it alot.

[Shinjin_MC]

newer TM springers do have a one-piece slide
a lot of the older ones have two pieces and dont take down

from TM catalogue
there are
18 years old (age of user) :
stainless & high grade
regular & high grade
high grade hopup

10 years old (age of user)
hopup
hop up stainless

[Mysteryfish]

I'm not sure what that means...

In any case, I think it has something to do with the actual design of the glock that caused them to have to build it with the separate halves.

The gun works great though. TM springers are underrated. They shoot SO straight!

If anybody down the line has TM HGHU springers to sell, or you've got magazines for the glock 17 HGHU... :cheers: ( you know how to get ahold of me )

[CDN_Stalker]

Just dont' clean the barrel is all I have to say. Mine worked great for a while (bought it new in 2004), a few months ago I cleaned the barrel and fucked the hop up roylally, now I have G17 in peices and 2 mags for it. I'd like another TM G17 springer for cold weather useage (yet to get a single kill with it) but spend more time with my G19s, so I might be apt to sell what is left of my G17 and mags if justification for selling is more than keeping (about 75% vs 25%).

[Mysteryfish]

Aww, heh. Bummer alright. Thanks for the tip. I'm sorry for your loss

but if you decide to sell it, you know where to find me :cheers:

[CDN_Stalker]

This is true. I'd prefer to buy another first since I have the parts gun and two mags. Will see what comes up.

[TheToastmaster]

I have a slightly older HG non-HU TM glock springer. As far as I know, the only difference between the HGHU and the normal HG is the inner barrel.
The slide on mine is 2-part with at least one visible screw on the slide.
I also have a TM Hk P7m13 of which the construction is almost identical.
I am under the impression that some of the TM springers are constructed with two part slides while others are not simply because of how they're designed (internal vs. external hammers seem to play a part in this). As far as I've seen, most of the TM pistols that have one-part slides are the "realistic take-down" springers, whereas the ones with 2-part slides don't have any way to simply release the slide.
Also: TM HG springers do not have markedly higher metal content than non-HG versions. As far as I know they are simply made of stronger plastic (Woohoo! ) and have more lead weights inside the magazine.

[Mysteryfish]

I just made the best accidental add-on to my glock.

I took the scorpion 9mm suppressor off my P90 and was screwing around with it, casually spinning the threads against the outer barrel on the glock springer, and before I knew it, it had threaded itself on, and it's firmly stuck.

I think I'm going to leave it!

I don't have anywhere to host pictures but I've got a few, because I had to take them: - it threaded on perfectly straight, and it looks awesome!

doesn't REALLY reduce the noise, but makes it sound more appropriate.

If you've got a 14mm suppressor lying around and you happen to not mind scratching the bejesus out of your glock barrel... :grin:

[TheToastmaster]

That's hillarious. I may just try it. I the barrel of my P7 is already a bit scratched up, and I wanted to put a supressor on it.

[Mysteryfish]

It basically requires a little careful aligning, and then turning the suppressor so the metal threads 'bite' into the plastic outer barrel.

It was just a lucky coincidence that the outer barrel on the glock happened to fit the ID of the suppressor (with a bit of interference, but that's where the threads come in...)

If it works with the P7, that'd rock.

It actually does sound a little different.