Disregard, I missed the best practices thread at the top of the forum. Please delete this thread moderator.
My agency is wading into the RDS program cautiously. As part of that we are running a trial program for firearms instructors for approximately a year. We hosted Aaron Cowan recently and learned a lot. The one question I asked and Aaron gave his thoughts was if there was a go-to location for finding what works best in this area in terms of what torque specs work best, what thread locker etc. We had our best guy, in terms of mechanical ability, build all of our guns for this class. They are a mix of Glock 17/19's Gen 5 Mos, with CHPWs plates torqued to their spec's. We had three plates come loose. Aaron had a toque spec of 18inch lbs, while our researched said 12-13inch lbs for holding the plates down. There could be lots of reasons these came loose and I am not finding fault with any person or company. The original toque wrench didn't seem very exact and maybe gave a false reading. Possibly the thread locker wasn't dry at application but my guy believes it was. We shot a lot in a short amount of time. Aaron was impressed with the very little downtime, even during a crappy day of weather. So maybe a few guns got heated up and the locker came loose? I'm really looking for people who have high round counts and have come up with the best practices to ensure, the best you can, the units stay locked on the gun. This may have been covered other places and if so I apologize.