Posted: 3/17/2010 7:19:34 PM EDT
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...Or should I do it myself with the help of an armourers DVD?
I'm thinking of sending my "new to me" Sig P226 Police Trade In back to sig for their service package and possible refinishing of the slide, installation of new night sights and perhaps some magwell grips. Is approx $360 + shipping worth it for a peice that I paid $375.00 cash for? It's in excellent mechanical and physical condition apart from some holster wear....I just like the peace of mind that comes with shiney new springs and a receipt. |
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...Or should I do it myself with the help of an armourers DVD? I'm thinking of sending my "new to me" Sig P226 Police Trade In back to sig for their service package and possible refinishing of the slide, installation of new night sights and perhaps some magwell grips. Is approx $360 + shipping worth it for a peice that I paid $375.00 cash for? It's in excellent mechanical and physical condition apart from some holster wear....I just like the peace of mind that comes with shiney new springs and a receipt. If you are having al that done, send it to GGI. You will get more for your money. If all you want is "shiney new springs", you can do that yourself. |
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Sig will give you Nitron on the slide which you'll have a hard time finding elsewhere and not for any cheaper.
You could do your own springs and push your own sights. TGS has the parts kit for $26 IIRC and a new set of sights will be ~$80. Then you will need to borrow/buy a pusher (or risk disaster). I just went through this with a P226. Decided to do something way different and expensive, but I had frame issues so that had to be refinished as well. |
| If you're handy there a cheaper routes as noted. A parts kit is $20-25. New Trijicons $75-80. Sig charges about $100 for a Nitron (blackened stainless) refinish. Robar charges about half of that. I had a P239 slide redone last month at Robar and it looks factory new. If you can change the decocker spring and the locking block spring in the frame then you'll save another $40-60 by not having to ship your entire pistol UPS/FEDEX overnight. Shipping a slide is about $10 each way. |
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A few years ago I sent in my two tone P229 to Sig Arms.
I had SIG service the gun, replace all worn parts and install a short trigger as well. I used their VIP service, where they provide all shipping labels for you to send the gun. All you have to do is put your gun in the case and box it. Total turn around time for me was 10 business days from the day I shipped the gun till the time I received it. I was very happy with the service. It may not be the cheapest service in the world, but I did not need the headache of losing any of the million parts inside a SIG. |
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If you have never armored a Sig then you are in for a nice surprise. There are only a few hundred parts to a Sig and good luck if you happen to lose one. The SIG has a "lot" of parts, but it is a hell of a lot easier than it looks. I had a lot easier time stripping my P226 to the bare frame than I did my 1911. Here are the results of such when I was smoothing up the trigger on my P226 Elite ST: 
That really isn't that bad. |
| I put in my own SRT parts yesterday and I thought it was easy. It actually isnt that bad if your a tad mechanically inclined, I'm not talking anything crazy but if you can put your own furniture together your probably fine. The are free armorers manuals out there as well. |
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I put in my own SRT parts yesterday and I thought it was easy. It actually isnt that bad if your a tad mechanically inclined, I'm not talking anything crazy but if you can put your own furniture together your probably fine. The are free armorers manuals out there as well. Where can one find an SRT kit? I'm looking to get one for my 226 |