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    Quote Originally Posted by ECVMatt View Post
    JNC- Living in CA, G5's are hard to get. I do have a G5 17, 45, and 19. I want to buy a G5 22 upper for my 17 but have not been able to confirm that the swap would work. I see no reason why it wouldn't, but you are the first person I have found that put a G5 40 slide on a G5 9mm frame. It seemed to have worked well for you. Do you anticipate any problems with this swap?

    Thanks

    Matt
    If you change the ejector, it will work. In the G23 MOS thread, I did that ejector swap and put a 23 upper on a G45 lower.
    Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ECVMatt View Post
    JNC- Living in CA, G5's are hard to get. I do have a G5 17, 45, and 19. I want to buy a G5 22 upper for my 17 but have not been able to confirm that the swap would work. I see no reason why it wouldn't, but you are the first person I have found that put a G5 40 slide on a G5 9mm frame. It seemed to have worked well for you. Do you anticipate any problems with this swap?

    Thanks

    Matt
    So far it seems to work like the Gen 3-4 swaps.

    You can pretty much just swap slides for the most part and it’ll work fine.

    If it’s a duty or carry gun, I’d go ahead and just swap the trigger group over (for me, it’s quicker and easier than changing the ejector, but that works too).

    Here’s some video from the range today where I was trying to get a sense of resonant timing of the 40SW in this gun.





    I have to work a little harder to get down to 0.15 splits but it’s still pretty manageable.

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    Recoil spring weight 22 versus 17?

    Does anyone with both know if the G22 spring is heavier?

    Glock does some strange things with their RSAs sometimes.

    Sometimes it seems like they use the same one across different models as an afterthought, but sometimes they actually change them.

    Thinking I might need a slightly lower spring rate for the gamer 40 but options and information aren’t plentiful.

    I ordered one of these:

    https://www.centennialdefensesystems...-17_p_859.html

    Currently 15 percent off.

    I did a 13 pound rate assuming the stock might be around 17.

    I did trim the outside radius of the stock spring to lighten the weight a little rather than cutting coils like I normally do for single spring rods since dual rods usually have tapered or welded ends of spring to keep them from falling off the short rods.

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    Thanks guys!

    I figured that it would but it is nice to have confirmation.

    I keep a Gen 3 17 with extra slides, barrels, and an ejector to shoot 9mm, 40 S&W, and .357 Sig. I am glad I will be able to do the same with the Gen 5.

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    Doesn’t work with prev Gen barrels

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    Barrel OD of new Gen is larger. 0.61 versus 0.58 in.

    So can’t use this slide with a 357 Sig Gen 4 on a Gen 4 frame.

    Was hoping to be able to use the heavy slide with 357 Sig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCN View Post
    Does anyone with both know if the G22 spring is heavier?

    Glock does some strange things with their RSAs sometimes.

    Sometimes it seems like they use the same one across different models as an afterthought, but sometimes they actually change them.

    Thinking I might need a slightly lower spring rate for the gamer 40 but options and information aren’t plentiful.

    I ordered one of these:

    https://www.centennialdefensesystems...-17_p_859.html

    Currently 15 percent off.

    I did a 13 pound rate assuming the stock might be around 17.

    I did trim the outside radius of the stock spring to lighten the weight a little rather than cutting coils like I normally do for single spring rods since dual rods usually have tapered or welded ends of spring to keep them from falling off the short rods.

    My 17 Gen 5 recoil spring is marked 1 3
    My 22 Gen 5 recoil spring is marked 1 2

    So they are different. I would assume the 22 Gen 5 has a heavier spring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve View Post
    My 17 Gen 5 recoil spring is marked 1 3
    My 22 Gen 5 recoil spring is marked 1 2

    So they are different. I would assume the 22 Gen 5 has a heavier spring.
    Thank you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCN View Post
    Thank you!

    You are welcome. I tried to find the spring weights and I can't even find the recoil springs online. I will keep searching.

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