Arotek or Wolff for G26?
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Jim Watson
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ISMI.
Their guide rods take stock Glock and their own flatwire springs.
Get steel. Our FLGD (Friendly Local Glock Dealer) put a titanium guide rod in his personal G20 and wondered why it quit working. The Ti rod was bearing against the opening in the nose of the slide and galling terribly. Fortunately, most of the wear was on the rod and when he went back to stock plastic, the gun ran fine.
Their guide rods take stock Glock and their own flatwire springs.
Get steel. Our FLGD (Friendly Local Glock Dealer) put a titanium guide rod in his personal G20 and wondered why it quit working. The Ti rod was bearing against the opening in the nose of the slide and galling terribly. Fortunately, most of the wear was on the rod and when he went back to stock plastic, the gun ran fine.
shooter.45
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I have a G26 with stock rod and spring..With hundreds of rounds thru it without any problems.. Did you ever hear IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT 
Just cruising through after work and I saw your question. DO NOT BUY AN AROTEK GUIDEROD. Some of their other products may be fine I don't know. I do know the AroTek guide rod I got was scored from end to end with milling ridges. I had to grind it and polish it smooth myself. Stay away unless something has changed for that product. I posted this on another gunforum and had replies of the same issue with Arotek Guide rods. I hear they carry great sights but I haven't seen them.
cuerno de chivo
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I had good luck with the captured steel one sold by Glockmeister. BTW I had a stock one break on me after 2 to 3 thousand rounds.
Go to GlockTalk and ask
BUT
Get the Wolff steel guide rod and a 19 or 20 pound recoil spring if this gun if for CCW. Ask the Niner's group at GT which exact weight.
If you reload, its great to have a couple of springs to tune your loads to your needs from heavy hot loads with heavy springs to light springs for target rounds.
With a fixed or captured rod system, you're stuck.
Go with an uncaptured setup like Wolff's.
If memory serves me, the factory spring is 17 #.
With some hot Corbons or Powermax in there, the extra power recoil springs will suck up me of the recoil and allow for added accuracy while increasing lockup time just a tad.
And wolff springs are carried by Midway, Brownells, and other online dealers.
and Wolff has made his name in the spring business by making reduced power and extra power recoil springs, steel rods, magazine springs, revolver springs, etc.
ISMI, Glockmeister, Aerotek, Glockworks, Sprinco and the like just aren't invested in time, effort, material, tooling, and R&D like Wolff.
All Wolff does is springs. they are specialists.
If you shoot your Glock enough or go to a GSSF match or work in a gun shop long enough, you will see those Glock plastic rods breaking and grown men crying.
What would happen if you're in a defensive situation and your first shot misses and the rod breaks? You're toast.
Glock used to use steel but found out they could save money on plastic. And that's the only reason why platics ones are in there. They are acceptable but with a risk. And when it comes to coming home, I'm going to use the best defensive weapon I shoot well with the best parts, and the most potent and accurate ammo I can to go home. Ask any cop.
And stay away from that stainless steel and titanium crap. you don't need it. Just gimmicks and titanium is a joke. It may be a light and bendable as alumnium. No thanks, but they use titanium sheets to make airplane skins. What does that tell you? Not sturdy enough for me. I want good hard steel. No doubt.
Wolff now matte blacks his rods to match Glocks appearance.
Have them on every one of my CCW and comp guns.
Wolff - no doubt!
BUT
Get the Wolff steel guide rod and a 19 or 20 pound recoil spring if this gun if for CCW. Ask the Niner's group at GT which exact weight.
If you reload, its great to have a couple of springs to tune your loads to your needs from heavy hot loads with heavy springs to light springs for target rounds.
With a fixed or captured rod system, you're stuck.
Go with an uncaptured setup like Wolff's.
If memory serves me, the factory spring is 17 #.
With some hot Corbons or Powermax in there, the extra power recoil springs will suck up me of the recoil and allow for added accuracy while increasing lockup time just a tad.
And wolff springs are carried by Midway, Brownells, and other online dealers.
and Wolff has made his name in the spring business by making reduced power and extra power recoil springs, steel rods, magazine springs, revolver springs, etc.
ISMI, Glockmeister, Aerotek, Glockworks, Sprinco and the like just aren't invested in time, effort, material, tooling, and R&D like Wolff.
All Wolff does is springs. they are specialists.
If you shoot your Glock enough or go to a GSSF match or work in a gun shop long enough, you will see those Glock plastic rods breaking and grown men crying.
What would happen if you're in a defensive situation and your first shot misses and the rod breaks? You're toast.
Glock used to use steel but found out they could save money on plastic. And that's the only reason why platics ones are in there. They are acceptable but with a risk. And when it comes to coming home, I'm going to use the best defensive weapon I shoot well with the best parts, and the most potent and accurate ammo I can to go home. Ask any cop.
And stay away from that stainless steel and titanium crap. you don't need it. Just gimmicks and titanium is a joke. It may be a light and bendable as alumnium. No thanks, but they use titanium sheets to make airplane skins. What does that tell you? Not sturdy enough for me. I want good hard steel. No doubt.
Wolff now matte blacks his rods to match Glocks appearance.
Have them on every one of my CCW and comp guns.
Wolff - no doubt!
shooter .45. Appreciate the advise, BUT, my boss has 3 G26's. All of his rods broke before 1k rounds. Another co-worker has one as well. Same problem. Why not prevent that from happening in the future should I ever really "need" the gun to go bang? Exactly. 
jtduncan....wolff it is! Thanks again for your advise-
Semper Fi-
JJC
jtduncan....wolff it is! Thanks again for your advise-
Semper Fi-
JJC
The best place is not the cheapest. Wolff will directly sell you the guide rods and a 19 or 20# spring set for you G26.
My G33 has a 22# spring setup on the way.
Midway will sell you the rod but not the springs.
brownells may have both.
So for another $4-5, I get it all from Wolff.
My G33 has a 22# spring setup on the way.
Midway will sell you the rod but not the springs.
brownells may have both.
So for another $4-5, I get it all from Wolff.