3D Printed SIG P226 9mm to .22LR Magazine Conversions

I personally only coincidentally stumbled across this thread. Im sure there are hundreds of people who are interested in this since it gives the p226 .22lr that last bit of awesome that it desperately needed.

I recommend advertising this in a more open space so that you would widen your market audience greatly. Also, do you have a website? That way we can find your products even if we lose this thread.
 
I don't have a website yet, and unfortunately I don't think I'm allowed to advertise in the general pistol forum. It's for discussion and reviews, etc. So if a member wants to do a review or something after I make them available for sale, that's about the only reason this would show up in that forum.

After I have the pricing sorted out and am ready to start selling them, I'll make a post in the EE pistol subforum. This thread is mainly for gauging interest.
 
The design is more or less finalized. See the video below for a sneak peek.


The spring manufacturer I was initially working with backed out due to "liability issues" and I'm working another manufacturer right now.

I'll be doing a limited pre-order to help finance the spring order.

I'm expecting the springs to come in within the next 14-30 days, so all pre-orders will likely be in your hands by the end of April.

Pre-order is sold out. Will update ad when ready to ship regular orders.
 
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So will these only work on factory Sig mags or do you have another version for say the MecGar mags with plastic floor plates.
 
Creeeg said:
So will these only work on factory Sig mags or do you have another version for say the MecGar mags with plastic floor plates.
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I'll be working on making some for the Mec-Gar mags as well, but I don't have any on hand to work with at the moment. The only issue is that the Mec-Gar mags are significantly shorter than the factory SIG mags so the baseplate and follower may not have enough room to fit and function properly.

Printed standalone mags will also be available, but the design is not yet completed so they're not included in this pre-order.
 
These look ideal as a printed entire mag might not survive getting dropped repeatedly onto a concrete floor. Which I do during IPSC practice. The steel mag should protect the insert nicely.
 
saskplcguy said:
These look ideal as a printed entire mag might not survive getting dropped repeatedly onto a concrete floor. Which I do during IPSC practice. The steel mag should protect the insert nicely.
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That's what I was going for. Every part of the insert except for the guides in front of the feed lips are nested into the metal magazine. They handle and function the same as the 9mm mags, and when fully loaded with .22 they weigh as much as the 9mm mag loaded to 4-5.
 
The pre-order is now closed. The springs will arrive in 10 days at the earliest, three weeks at the latest. Thanks to everyone who participated in the pre-order.
 
Did a more extensive range test with the final revision today. ~1000 rounds through five mags.

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Slide lock is working 100%, with the exception of the Mec-Gar insert, which is still a work in progress.

Orders will begin to ship next week.

 
I did. They may be stiff to load initially, as the printed surfaces are not completely smooth. This should go away within the first 20 rounds or so.

Also, I had to use a stiffer spring to make the slide lock reliable so it will be slightly more difficult to load to 10 than the standard SIG .22 mag, but comparable to loading any other pistol mag by hand. The parts are all identical, so they should all load to the same capacity, and I assure you that the capacity is ten.
 
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There is one made by Uplula that works well for both these inserts and the standard .22 mags.

The inserts should load easily by hand after loading and unloading them once or twice though. I've been checking capacity using the UpLULA but I agree that the 10th round is initially somewhat difficult to load by hand.
 
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After I was finally able to fit the 10th round in it now loads almost as effortlessly as the original sig mag!

Thanks Alex! The Americans used to get some "sig power" magazines for these but that company doesnt make them anymore. Might I suggest you somehow advertise to them as well. I'm sure you'll make a lot of pesos!
 
Glad they worked for you. There is probably greater demand for these in the states, but I'll have to look into the legality of shipping down there.
 
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