What is the slide of a Glock made of?

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Whatever it is, its tougher than steel. Nothing I have can scratch it. Without some sort industrial piece of equipment I don't think I could even break it if I tried. What is it made of?
 
I just payed 500 bucks for this glock and the damn slide won't break when I want it to. I took a sledge hammer to it and FAILED.

I even tried to bend it with my hands and strained my thumb. I'm suing.
 
Heh.

You said you were amazed that you would need equipment to mangle the slide of your pistol in your opening post.

Sounds to me like you have been sold zinc or maybe pewter as steel before. You should double-check anything you have built with this "steel".
 
certainly haven't tried to scratch one,

but if it is that hard I'd guess sintered metal. That process tends to produce steel that is harder than the hubs of Hades and laughs at standard tools.
 
It's just a high quality steel with a proprietary hardening process Glock refers to as Tenifer. Think of it as a high tech case hardening process. The portion which is effected is an extreemly thin skin, a Google on Glock Tenifer will yeild better results than I am giving here though. The tenifer is under the black coating and is actually in the steel. The black stuff is an added protectant but is mainly cosmetic.
 
Hardened steel with a proprietary coating called tennifer that actually bonds with the metal to provide a microscopic layer of wear and rust resistence. Tennifer is not the black coating which I am not sure what they use for that. The slides can and do scratch, wear etc. They are, however hella tough all things considered.

I am guessing you are not really trying to scratch the frame in a defacing way and just doing a light scratch to see if it will show up like on a blued gun. Like I said the glock finish is tough but will indeed scratch or wear.

My other theory is that all the ugly is able to repel most attacks but I haven't proven this as of yet.
 
jhenry said:
It's just a high quality steel with a proprietary hardening process Glock refers to as Tenifer.
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Tenifer? I think I dated her in college. Of course, it was REDNECK UNIVERSITY, so she may be my cousin, too. I get confused. :p
 
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