Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

[tomdrews]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience fitting these to the TM P226. I've heard they're quite a pain. And if anyone knows of someone who could do it for me then that would be great!

[Boo-Sabum Ben]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

I've done it to mine. Glad I bought a Drexel kit just because a few days beforehand. Royal pain in the backside. If your budget will accommodate it, go Prime/PGC

[tomdrews]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

I could probably scrape it together, I hear they're quite a pickle to find.

[Boo-Sabum Ben]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

They are. Biggest problem is retailers who say they're in stock, you buy one, and a week later get an email saying that they don't have any.

I believe someone still had an entire pistol for sale. For the price it'd be worth just buying that then selling the parts

[PureSilver]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

PGC kits are easy to find for sale, can be had for both P226R and P226 E² donors in a variety of styles, and for about $220 are about the only genuine bargain in the high-end pistol world. For less than the price of a nasty cast SAI slide, you get a slide, outer barrel and frame all CNC'd from billet, and they are genuinely drop-in fit. To top it off, the integrated MSH of the PGC kit means you can easily fit RS grips, which with any other kit would require purchasing a RS MSH from SIG Sauer.

A Guarder kit will only be two-thirds of the price, but it'll also be cast, not billet-machined, and take hours or even days of fitting to work at all, let alone smoothly.

[tomdrews]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

PGC sound like the best choice, but I can't find a silver one

[PureSilver]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

I haven't seen a silver PGC kit in stock for a while; they always were rare. I was going to say there was a silver PGC Elite kit in the Classifieds last week, but it looks like it's sold now.

[Boo-Sabum Ben]

Re: Guarder aluminium slide and frame for TM P226- 2010 version

What they really need to do is make the P228 kit again. I would sell a testicle for one.