Help Please: RMR not fitting Glock Slide

[wl518]

Buy cheap, buy twice. I think it’s awesome everyone is trying to help OP, but once those holes were drilled, there really isn’t short term fix that will guarantee reliability. If your are dead set on mounting an RMR, see if you can buy a MOS slide.

Not trying to be a shill, but you should have sent a fresh slide to ATEI in the first place.

[Matt P]

Any seller with much Itrader will do the right thing and refund all your money. If you purchased this with the sole intent to mount a RMR.
The fact he never tried to mount it doesn’t matter. He sold you a defective slide that you would not have purchased knowing the full picture.
Because he didn’t try and mount an RMR shouldn’t mean you have to pay the price at this point. If he had at the time of his purchase he could have easily received a refund.
I have worked hard for my Itrader. I would absolutely refund you your money. This thread is enough of prooof for me I sold you a defective product.

Him refunding you is called doing the right thing. Wouldn’t you do the right thing if you did this to another?

Edit-
Did you buy this from a member named snaggletooth?

[ducatiti]

Any seller with much Itrader will do the right thing and refund all your money. If you purchased this with the sole intent to mount a RMR.
The fact he never tried to mount it doesn’t matter. He sold you a defective slide that you would not have purchased knowing the full picture.
Because he didn’t try and mount an RMR shouldn’t mean you have to pay the price at this point. If he had at the time of his purchase he could have easily received a refund.
I have worked hard for my Itrader. I would absolutely refund you your money. This thread is enough of prooof for me I sold you a defective product.

Him refunding you is called doing the right thing. Wouldn’t you do the right thing if you did this to another?

Edit-
Did you buy this from a member named snaggletooth?

Seller/Fellow Calguns member basically told me that he had never mounted a RMR or used the slide and he did not make any promises. He has a perfect itrader feedback rating here.

Thoughts?

Edit: yes, I bought it from him. I am in contact with PWS and original retailer for my options. But I doubt they can do much since it was originally purchased in 2015 and I'm not the original buyer, and don't have any proof of purchase.

[SkyHawk]

Just make it fit already. This after market slide, which is no longer made and seemingly had a short shelf life from the get go, was always an experiment.

Don’t put this on the seller. YOU bought an after market slide, made by a crappy company that wont stand behind their products and who doesn’t even make the thing anymore, probably because it always sucked. Those were all things that were knowable BEFORE you bought it. But you still bought it.

Now get to fitting the RMR onto it already, so we can get on to finding out how the striker channel is out of spec, the extractor plunger channel is out of spec, the striker safety plunger hole is out of spec, etc etc.

Rule #1 of aftermarket gun parts: always assume some fitting is required. If you don't like that, don’t buy aftermarket parts.

[ducatiti]

Noted. I have a Zev Dragonfly slide on order and will test out a RM09 to battle my astigmatism a bit.

[Matt P]

This is absolutely on the seller.
Anyone who suggests otherwise wouldn’t be rolling over either.

You bought this in good faith that your RMR would work on it. Not hopefully.

I am sure he offered it for sale as there being nothing wrong with it. New and unused with the relief cut for an RMR.
Your RMR doesn’t fit. That’s it. So it is not as described.
He sold you something that was not as described. Why is that so hard to expect the seller to refund you.
Who cares who made it..... Its not your responsibility to fix it.

Most anyone here would demand a refund. You should too. He should have no issue giving it to you. This is not like buying a used product that had miles on it and so you could expect some issues, after all it’s used.

No. If he offered it as brand new and unused you are easily entitled to a refund.

Skyhawks argument is just plain silly. It’s not applicable for your transaction. You should have researched comment....That’s just insane. Why would you research it.... His post suggests an axe to grind over something else. Maybe someone returned something on him or he purchased something and had the same issue as you but sucked it up.

No way would I roll over on this.

[Litespeeds]

Always two sides to looking at things. When purchasing from private parties, there is always a risk that is involved. He is not a store that has a return guarantee policy. If the original seller tried to install an RMR and realized it didn't fit and sold it to ducatiti, then yes he should offer to refund his money and deal with whichever company that he bought it from. But since he said he never installed or used the slide, I don't see why he should refund ducatiti. PWS really should be the ones who fix this problem because the product was not made to specifications. I do see valid points on both sides though.

[tonyxcom]

If the seller advertised the Slide as a PWS Glock slide with RMR cut, or anything close to that, I think the seller should be part in making this right.

The seller represented this to the buyer as accepting an RMR. The fact that it doesn't is the sellers problem. The seller can seek a resolution from PWS or the original retailer.

Or meet somewhere in the middle and offer a partial refund.

[mtenenhaus]

i wonder if you couldn't jury rig a SUAREZ L-MOUNT UNIVERSAL RED DOT BASE

[Matt P]

He could absolutely go through the headache and expense of having the slide milled to accept a different mini holo. Not all have the same bases.
Or have the towers milled off and have the screw holes threaded deeper. Possibly just having the towers removed may allow the RMR to finally mount.
I have several mini holos that do not have screw locators or towers and simply screw into the plateau/relief that is milled. These have not given me any issues with movement or coming loose.

Treat the seller exactly how you would want to be treated if you sold the slide. If you would expect the buyer to handle it on their own independently of you then fine.
This may all be moot if he will simply refund you and accept he sold you a flawed item.

Again, I would promptly refund all monies and pay to have it shipped back to me. I have done this in the past even when there was nothing wrong with what I sold they just had second thoughts.

[AGFNTB]

I would not modify the RMR or mount it if the screw hole spacing is not correct. The holes in the RMR are countersunk so any angle on the screws will put stress on the RMR. I would hate for you to end up with a junk slide AND a junk RMR.

On a side note, my P320 I had milled does not have raised bosses and the RMR06 with Trijicon plate mounts to it fine and it has worked flawlessly.

[ducatiti]

As previously mentioned, PWS could not help me any further. I also contacted the supposed original merchant Omaha Outdoors. They do not have a record of the purchase or slide’s serial number in their system.

I am in the process of contacting the seller for a refund.

Hopefully he would cooperate as I tried to do my part.

[Matt P]

He sells more then anything else on this forum. At least that’s all I saw going back several of his pages of posts.
He will not want to tarnish his itrader and will do the right thing.

If you paid PayPal and not as a gift you have recourse there too.

[ducatiti]

At this point I think your only options are

a) somehow make it fit
b) put a cover plate on it and shoot with iron sights. It will be relatively simple to make a cover plate fit. You can probably just file the plate a bit and snap it right over the posts.
c) sell it at a deep discount with full disclosure of the issue. I’d offer you $50 for the stripped slide or $100 with sights and internals.

Slide assembly and Suppressor height sights now for sale in the classifieds, fyi.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?p=21845156#post21845156

Edit: I'm scheduled to receive the slide back from PWS tomorrow, 7/6.

[ducatiti]

Also, I have settled this with the reputable seller here in the forum.

Let’s put it this way, we met in the middle.

Good guy overall.