SIG owners I need your help I may have a cracked/chipped slide!!!

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As I am considering a carreer as an apprentice armourer for one of the Police dept's I thought I would buy the gun I could be working on.

So I bought this off the exchange here from a fellow who desribed the (a SIG226R 9MM) gun to be in very good condition. He seemed very nice and I enjoyed talking with him. We corresponded via email for some time, with me asking questions about the gun and or its condition, etc etc. I am allways hesitant buying used pistols but he was very convincing that the gun was in great shape.

Once I was satisfied he seemed legit and after he stated I could return the gun if I was not 100% satisfied I decided to take him up on it.

He paid for shipping and supplied me with 6 mags. Again the gun was described to be in near mint shape.


The gun arrived last night and I immediately stripped the gun and noticed this.

Could someone who owns a similiar gun please post a pic of there slide so I could have something to refer to. I am hoping as I am unfamiliar with the SIG series guns that this is supposed to looks like this and I am overreacting.

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

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That slide is chipped.
A very important part of a deal is to disclose or at least "vaguely" describe the state of the item being sold. If he didnt tell you about the chip, then it's up to you. You have the option of retuning it anyway.
 
Wow. That is definately chipped. I would return it asap. If the seller was familliar with sigs then its bad on his part, if not there is always benefit of the doubt.
 
You might want to price a new slide and have the seller pay for it rather than go through another transfer process. Or have him fire back some dough your way. Personally, I don't think it would affect the performance or safety of the gun, but I would have a sig rep or gun smith verify that. Track down CGN: GADGET - he seems to know quite a bit about sigs.
 
It looks too symmetric to be a chip... can someone of the above confirmt hey are a sig owner, or can we get a sig owner to weigh in on this?

I think it might be a cut to blunt ahsarp edge caused by the funny angles that need to me machined into a slide to allow the barrel to tilt...

Call TSE, snd them your pictures they will tell you ina heartbeat, having seen every sig malfucntion int he universe.

My bet: It's a cut, not a chip.
 
I agree with having the seller just buy you a new slide...

If the guy sounded reasonable and offered 100% money back I think it's pretty clear he didn't know about this issue. Maybe he's never had it apart and didn't notice the chip himself. Give him the benefit of the doubt and ask him what he thinks you guys should do.
 
Bartledan said:
It looks too symmetric to be a chip... can someone of the above confirmt hey are a sig owner, or can we get a sig owner to weigh in on this?

I think it might be a cut to blunt ahsarp edge caused by the funny angles that need to me machined into a slide to allow the barrel to tilt...

Call TSE, snd them your pictures they will tell you ina heartbeat, having seen every sig malfucntion int he universe.

My bet: It's a cut, not a chip.
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It looks like a CHIP that someone tried to mask by filing and making it symmetrical. It still looks like a chip though. I'd return the thing and I'd be upset that he didn't tell you.
 
G37 said:
It looks like a CHIP that someone tried to mask by filing and making it symmetrical. It still looks like a chip though. I'd return the thing and I'd be upset that he didn't tell you.
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Yes, and then nitrided, using a proprietary process called "Notrolon" that is viciously poisonous, as it involves cyanide....

The color looks very uniform.

I still bet it's a cut to remove a sharp edge.

Nevermind that there is nothing in there for it to hit, to cause a chip!
 
It looks like there is some instant blue stuff smeared on in the first close up.
I am looking forward to hearing what the result is. Keep us all posted.

It has to be a bubba job as the factory would have done a nice clean arc, not a babies-#### cut. I've also owned enough pistols to know a flaw when I see one. Nognog confirms ;)
 
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My sig 226 in .40 without the rail has the exact same thing. I never noticed it untill now. I don't belive its a chip, there is no bear metal showing. I think it allows the barrel to rotate up and back, without it there it looks to me it would be tight.

Here are some pictures of mine, you can see that without that cutout, it would be near imposible to remove the barrel I think. Its not a chip either, its a cutout, I can feel and see the tool marks(not in the pics though).

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My non educated guess is that if the barrel drops in it doesn't get the trim. If it don't it gets a little trim. Maby there is a difference in barrel widths between certain generations? Probably not though. Yours looks trimmed more than mine, and it looks like they did it at different angles.

Maby you could post your issue here www.sigforum.com, or look to see if anyone else has this problem.

Oh and my barrel diameter is .530"

Let me know if you make a post there, I am interested now too.

I don't think the seller has to do anything in this case. Hell I didn't even relise mine was there, but its not as pernounced/ugly as yours. Either the dealer that he bought it from, or you should deal with sig directly.
 
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They look rough and are not finish machined to any exact tolerance, but that is not something to worry about. The guns still works, right?
 
LOL...
I'm shocked... you learn something every day. My apologies to Bartledan. :runaway:

Thanks for posting this, if I ever get a Sig it will not have that piece of metal removed ;)
 
That's normal. The slide is supposed to be machined in that area. On some slides the machining is more pronounced than on the others, but that's certainly not a chip (as if you couldn't tell from the fact that the finish is still present).
 
capp325 said:
That's normal. The slide is supposed to be machined in that area. On some slides the machining is more pronounced than on the others, but that's certainly not a chip (as if you couldn't tell from the fact that the finish is still present).
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As if I could'nt tell, thats cute. I guess I posted this then because I must have known the answer beforehand and just enjoy typing.

Actually the chip is not on all P226R's and I now know this is a fact. Also as you can see in the other posts some peoples slides are without anything like this at all, no matter how prominent you claim them to be. So stating it is supposed to be like that insinuating this is to be on all P226's is false and as if you couldnt tell that by the other posts or owners of said guns that do not have the cut/chip at all. So considering the area is supposed to be machined there according to you, be it less prominent or not, those that do not have this imperfection as we'll call it must have improperly machined guns?

I have consulted a SIG armourer and was informed this is not on all the guns. So I would say that recieving a firearm especially one such as the quality of that of the SIG with what appeared to be a non symetrical non machined rough cut or flayed chip on the slide of one of there precision firearms especially one that is reasonably new would warrant one to ask "hey is that a chip, or is it supposed to be like that"

Its also not related to serial number either as his personal gun is very close numerically to mine and it does not have this "chip"

As for firing it I have no idea as I just recieved it but I will hopefully be getting it to the range soon. I would though Imagine I,m not going to group my best as the front sight is loose, was pushed found to the far left of the groove and had to be returned to a guessed zero when I recieved it. (no big deal really)

Now this area in one spot is almost sharp to the touch with one small remnant of metal left over from the supposed procedure or defect.

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If this is factory you would think SIG would have made some kind of reference to it. You'd think considering the reputation for quality and there prices that reflect this they would have.

Also the colour in the area is not uniform. It was definetly done after the machining of the part?
 
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