question about the Girsan Yavuz Compact MC slide release lever button

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Hello all,
Just received my new pistol and admiring it ... really nice fit and finnish, great feel to the grip and everything is tight. Thanks so much Ryan and SFRC ... great service and even greater prices! :eek:)

This is my very first handgun, so, while drooling over the good looks, I decided to take off the slide and see what makes this baby tick. I kept trying to push the button that locks the slide release lever (please forgive any naming mistakes) and it just wouldn't budge. After a while I just tried the lever anyway and it moved freely without pushing the button. After playing with it a little more it seems that the slide release lever lock button just moves freely back and forth; if I push it to "lock" position, then it stops the slide release lever from moving; if I push it to "unlock" the slide release lever then moves freely.

It's supposed to be a copy of a Beretta 92f but I've never messed around with that either so I have no idea. Everything else is perfect about this gun so I'm thinking it might just be the way it's supposed to be.

So, after all that, my question is: should the slide release lever button be spring loaded? because right now, it's not. I can see that after some use and it gets a little looser, that button will shake back and forth between lock and unlock. Is this normal for this gun?
 
mine, tho not a compact, is the same pistol. There is definitely spring tension on the button on the right side of the slide. Without it pressed, you cannot rotate the lever on the other side of the slide, and take the slide off the frame.

Its not the slide release, that is for letting the slide go forward after its been locked back. IE, you empty a mag, slide locks back, you eject that mag and insert a full one. then, you just press down on the slide release lever and the slide goes forward, strips off a round and chambers it.
 
It's the button that retains the slide release lever that allows you to remove the slide from the rest of the pistol.

I couldn't find any schematics on the Yavuz 16 but I did find one (actually many) schematics for the Beretta 92 and there is definitely supposed to be a spring that puts tension on that button. The way mine is right now, it's super easy to flip that button back and forth ... when it's sitting in the "unlocked" position, I can do the movie trick of removing the slide while on the business end of the gun. :)
 
cool, thanks for the info bscout.

I was watching youtube videos about the button in question (but only for the 92fs) and they have a spring in that model. Naturally I went and disassembled using the video as a guide and found no spring contained in the release button ... although its pretty obvious there is space for one in there. Funny thing is the disassembly latch and disassembly latch release button are just in front of where they attach the "quality tested" tag. LOL
 
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