difficulty with assembly

[howards]

i finally received and used my new r9 stealth. shot terrifically, with no problems with 124 gr gold bond hollow points. i shot 50 rounds and came home to clean the gun. i had a very difficult time placing the pin back in the gun on reassembly.  very tough time!  any suggestions or hints. thanks.

[MrsFosforos]

get one of these, use the chop stick wedge to keep the slide open far enough to slide the pin back in.



one of the guys here is selling them: RJ tool

a toothbrush handle works too!

[kjtrains]

i finally received and used my new r9 stealth. shot terrifically, with no problems with 124 gr gold bond hollow points. i shot 50 rounds and came home to clean the gun. i had a very difficult time placing the pin back in the gun on reassembly.  very tough time!  any suggestions or hints. thanks.

howards.  John (yankee2500) sells the tool.

Anyone wanting any of these items has until Sept. 18th to make there purchase, after that you will need to wait until after Nov. 20th.
 
I will be Europe on Vacation during that time.  




[COLOR="Red"]**** TAKEDOWN TOOL BACK IN STOCK ****[/COLOR]

The R. J Hedley style takedown tool is available for the Rohrbaugh 9mm & 380
 

They are $33 Shipped paying with a USPS money order, all other payment forms ADD 4%


Address for $33 USPS money order is.

John Perrin
2500 Toyes Dr.
Denton, NC   27239

Address for $34.32 paypal payment is   yankee2500@rtmc.net

[SIZE="3"][COLOR="Red"]Don't Forget To Order Mag Extensions & Grip Screws So Everything Can Ship At Once[/COLOR][/SIZE]

Thanks
John

[sm8770]

Search "SlideBlok" on the forum or Google it.

This made the pin removal and replacement a true snap.

[Reinz]

Regardless of all the cool tools, if the recoil rod assembley  gets misaligned it can make reassembly a bother.
Make sure the rear part of the recoil rod (the big flat looking washer end) is level with the cam of the barrel.  

Almost as if you laid a straight edge across it.  Thus the rod should be pretty much parallel with the barrel if memory serves me.

Good Luck

[yankee2500]

Reinz, I like the "If memory serves me" part.

[howards]

spoke with david shobar. he is going to be sending me his tool for assembly/disassembly.  very helpful, and i recommend his tool to all r9 users.

[Robar233]

Howards,
 
 I use both the tool from Dave and the one from John in the picture. I also like the tip of the cut off old style Q-Tip (rolled cotton stick). This is the perfect tool for pin removal. You can also use it for reassembly by pushing the Q-tip out with the pin.

 Robar233

[relicdigger]

The Q-Tip is a great idea. I have been using a flat cut tooth pick. I also had difficulty with reassembly so I researched this site and I made a tool out of a flat piece of plastic with a 5/32 hole drilled in it for a reassembly tool; it works great.

[Writer_Ron]

I know this isn't the "preferred" approach, but I've turned pin removal and replacement into a two-person job ... and it becomes a snap.

To disassemble my R-9, I hold the pistol and pull back the slide. My wife uses a q-tip stick to push out the pin.

To reassemble it, I pull back the slide until I can see "air" through the larger hole (port side of the pistol) and she reinserts the pin.

As it happens, we performed two complete cycles today: I lubed the gun before visiting the range and cleaned it afterward.

[darkwaterkid]

I initially had trouble with reassembly as well, and found one of the RJ-style tools to be very helpful in getting past that. However, there were a couple posts in the forum saying it could be done without tools, so I kept trying until I figured it out. It does require a little grip strength, but in my opinion this approach adds quite a bit of convenience. You'll still need something to press the pin in and out; my favorite is the straw from a can of spray solvent, but the possibilities are almost endless there.

My wife and I shot this video to show it...

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=hrAdj-WEBig

It doesn't always go as smoothly as shown, but with practice it's really not bad at all. Anyway, FWIW, my suggestion is to get the tool, and then learn to not need it.

[yankee2500]

I know this isn't the "preferred" approach, but I've turned pin removal and replacement into a two-person job ... and it becomes a snap.

To disassemble my R-9, I hold the pistol and pull back the slide. My wife uses a q-tip stick to push out the pin.

To reassemble it, I pull back the slide until I can see "air" through the larger hole (port side of the pistol) and she reinserts the pin.

As it happens, we performed two complete cycles today: I lubed the gun before visiting the range and cleaned it afterward.

Just don't get divorced.  

[Writer_Ron]

Just don't get divorced.  

It's a two-way street. She's my local pistol disassembly assistant; I'm her in-house IT support person.

Consequently, we're both indispensable to each other.  

[Reinz]

Reinz, I like the "If memory serves me" part.

John - I know you were just hackn' on me, but in my defense,  I fly by the seat of pants a lot when it comes to tearing guns down and not reading directions.   I just "do it" with no issues, so sometimes I can't "splain" it so well; especially at 3 am.  

[Richard S]

I know this isn't the "preferred" approach, but I've turned pin removal and replacement into a two-person job ... and it becomes a snap.

To disassemble my R-9, I hold the pistol and pull back the slide. My wife uses a q-tip stick to push out the pin.

To reassemble it, I pull back the slide until I can see "air" through the larger hole (port side of the pistol) and she reinserts the pin.

As it happens, we performed two complete cycles today: I lubed the gun before visiting the range and cleaned it afterward.

Ron:

That technique sounded so familiar that I executed a word search and found this post of mine from 2005:

http://www.rohrbaughforum.com/YaBB.cgi?board=Classifieds;action=display;num=1134518664;start=18#18