Taking apart a Glock mag.
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Place a drop of oil on each ear... put something solid in the hole then brace the mag body as close to the floor plate as you can against something solid (e.g. wood cutting board) and then give it a sharp/quick push. The floor plate should pop past the ears.
It's only hard the very first time, it's easier afterwards.
It's only hard the very first time, it's easier afterwards.
gushulak
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Mike K said:
Have you ever taken a mag apart? The bumps are there for a reason and are not any pain whatsoever if you disassemble a mag to proper way. Use the glock pin punch to move the base plate up and all the way out of the way, the body will then move easily to allow the tabs to move out of the way. Cutting them out of the way is what a novice does when he doesn't know the proper way his Glock works, check out Glocktalk if you don't know how to dissasemble a mag before these hillbilly tricks, always seem to come from the same old people.
gushulak said:
That works just fine with normal capacity mags, but the crappy 10rd ones have thicker plastic walls and do not move easily. I was shown this by a glock armourer and have others show me the exact same thing.
Check this out... same as technique already mentioned. Works well for me.
http://www.dt-concepts.com/images/magdis.mpg
http://www.dt-concepts.com/images/magdis.mpg
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gushulak
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Mike K said:
By inserting the pin punch all the way until the internal baseplate "snap" out of place, IE-pushed in all the way. The magazine sides will have enough flex to remove the baseplate, even with the so called crappy 10 round mags. Whatever armourer told you to remove those knobs obviously doesn't know how to properly take apart a Glock mag.
There are plenty of posts on Glocktalk.com which describe how to take apart mags and some of the so called problems. Seriously, once you really know how to properly take apart a Glock mag, you can do it with one hand. I used to think it was something difficult to properly disassemble a mag until I was shown how to properly do it. The proper way is to not cut anything off your magazines, its amazingly simple once you have seen it from someone who knows how to properly do it. Keeping the internal baseplate properly out of the way using a proper Glock disassembly tool is all you need to do, it will snap up and out of the way inside the mag, that is the best way I can describe it, once it is properly out of the way there will be nothing inside the magazine to prevent you from compressing it together to release the baseplate. If you are having any hard time what so ever, you haven't moved the internal baseplate out of the way properly, when it is done properly the mag comes apart like nothing. To disassemble a mag will take 4 seconds when you know how to do it. Honestly.
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I'm thinking that this is some sort of prank. 
I've spent the last half hour or so dicking around with my mags and can not figure out how the process you described is supposed to work on factory 10 rd glock mags. It works like a charm on my blocked normal capacity ones, but the factory neutered ones have that plastic sleeve inside of the mag that prevents the insert from going anywhere other than flat down about 1/4" into the magazine body. In order for it to work, it has to either be pressed down farther than that or tilt and slide right out of the way. Either way, the internal plastic sleeve gets in the way and prevents this. With it stuck flat 1/4" in there it actually makes it even harder to squeeze the magazine body in order for the tabs to clear. I even used my fancy pants glock disassembly tool.
I've spent the last half hour or so dicking around with my mags and can not figure out how the process you described is supposed to work on factory 10 rd glock mags. It works like a charm on my blocked normal capacity ones, but the factory neutered ones have that plastic sleeve inside of the mag that prevents the insert from going anywhere other than flat down about 1/4" into the magazine body. In order for it to work, it has to either be pressed down farther than that or tilt and slide right out of the way. Either way, the internal plastic sleeve gets in the way and prevents this. With it stuck flat 1/4" in there it actually makes it even harder to squeeze the magazine body in order for the tabs to clear. I even used my fancy pants glock disassembly tool.The magazine insert does not move out of the way as readily as the one in the video I posted does. The key is to get the disassembly tool (or punch) all the way into the body of the mag.
Pushing straight down on the insert will not allow sufficient entry of the tool/displacement of the insert, the disassembly tool should be fully inserted to the handle as the video demos. Try pushing straight down and then angling the tool on an approximate 45 degree angle relative to the base plate (while maintaining downward pressure). You'll hear a click as the punch shifts the insert, just wriggle it until it is fully inserted. Then squeeze and lever the plate past the keepers.
Pushing straight down on the insert will not allow sufficient entry of the tool/displacement of the insert, the disassembly tool should be fully inserted to the handle as the video demos. Try pushing straight down and then angling the tool on an approximate 45 degree angle relative to the base plate (while maintaining downward pressure). You'll hear a click as the punch shifts the insert, just wriggle it until it is fully inserted. Then squeeze and lever the plate past the keepers.
