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| Changing the grip on a P32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Continuing with the P32 grip replacement instructions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Take your handy-dandy screwdriver / mini-prybar and gently slip the tip thru the paperclip-like spring, like the picture to the left and slowly pull the spring upwards. Don't get it too far out. Reach down in there and grab it before it comes loose.. Pliers might be useful here, if you have them. Once its out, place it aside if your "safe place." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The magazine catch now should slide right out. And you know where to put it, too... Now all gun parts are completely removed from the grip. You can move it aside. (You don't need a safe place for this one -- you're not going to need it again, and who the heck is gonna wanna buy a used black P32 grip!) Now get out your new P32 grip and get ready to do the whole process in reverse order! |
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| The first thing that we need to install on the new grip is the last thing we took out -- the magazine catch and magazine catch spring. This can be a little tricky, but it you do it right, it can be a snap. First, take a look at the paperclip-like mag catch spring and notice that one end is longer than the other. The longer end must go on the left of side of the gun and the shorter end on the right. (See blurry photo to right). Place the short side of the spring into the little spring groove on the right side of the gun. Make sure that the bottom tip of the spring on the right is flush with the magazine catch slot. Don't worry about the longer end right now. Got that much so far? |  |
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| Now, once you have gotten the spring in there, take your screwdirver / mini-prybar and gently nudge the long end into the spring groove on the left side of the grip. You may wish to hold you hand over the top to make sure you don't fling the spring out out. You are compressing the magazine catch spring, so there's a chance that you might flip it out and have to try again. If you do flip it out, that's okay, but make sure to listen carefully as it flings out, so you can hear it bounce off the wall, or the ceiling, or the furniture, and then the floor. Start looking where you heard it last! ;) If you can't find it, put all your gun pieces in a little plastic bag and call 407-631-0068 and ask the guys at Kel-Tec to send you a new one! If you have gotten this far and don't happen to need a new one, let's continue! Pull the magazine catch spring out a little bit so that the longer (left) side is now flush with the magazine catch slot. Slide the magazine catch back into the slot (making sure you don't make a left-handed magazine catch by slipping it in backwards!). Now you have to get the longer end of the spring into the little hole in the magazine catch. This may take a few minutes. Once you get the spring engaged in the catch, slide the spring down until it stop. Try the catch. It should spring in and out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Now we have to put the hammer block assembly back in. This is, without a doubt, the hardest part of replacing the grip. It will probably take a little bit of time to get it back in, but it's doable.The hammber block assembly consists of the hammber block, the hammer block pin, and the hammer block spring, as pictured to the left. I know it's a bit fuzzy, but that's what it is. The pin extends from the top to the bottom, the block from left to right, and the spring is on the pin, extending upward on one end, and inserted into the hammber block on the other end. Proceed to the next page for instructions on re-installing the hammber block. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hammber block, pin, and spring. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to continue with the installation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||