SS80 - The Complete Build, Part 1

[Music] hey there's lenny mcgill with the Glocks or performance in custom shop right here in san diego california today is a very big day for all of us especially me because we are going to show you how to build the SS 80 80 percent lower that accepts glock 43 parts as you know the 80 percent concepts been around for a while and the SSAT is the one that we developed for you to be able to build a glock 43 like handgun okay and it is pretty spectacular it is really special i'm gonna tell you what really it has an amazing grip to it we've improved some of the ergonomics and i think you're really gonna like it before we get started I do want to say thank you to all of you out there all of our customers and all of you who've been kind of with me on this this adventure to get this thing approved and ready to sell it's been about really 10 months and some of you have placed an order 10 months ago and I will say thank you for waiting thanks for your patience thanks your confidence in our business and you know thanks for being a friend of Glock store so now let's get started with the SSAT and kind of how it all starts and how you begin the SSAT frame or the lower is sold as a separate item it's very important okay it includes the lower only which means you get basically the 80% lower that still needs to have some material removed to be able to accept the g43 parts the material that we will remove will be the rail system up here and in the rear as well and we'll also have to drill some holes into the plastic frame but this as you see it is the 80% lower and we have to do some work to do that and it's sold as I said as a separate item alright and so we're gonna put that aside for a second because I want to go through all the things you need and all the things you're gonna get to be able to go from point A to point B and Point C so the other thing you'll will meet and sold as a separate item is the SSAT tool builders set and this includes the tools you need to finish the 80% lower and make it ready to accept Glock 43 parts okay so in this bag you're gonna find a couple things all right let me get them all out here real quick and then we'll go through them one at a time first and foremost yes you will get an S is a D sticker just build your own okay you're also going to see in here the 80% jig that accepts the 80% lower okay now you see there's two halves and when you put the lower in there they squeeze together and you make it there and this will give you some drill points and finishing points now one of the things we did differently with our s SAT and our 80% lower and this particular fixture or jig as they call it is that we added nuts and bolts to help keep this together and we actually include in the package three of the screws and three of the bolts that will allow you to capture the frame into the fixture so go ahead and I'll just show you how we do this real quick as we go so here is the 80% frame we're gonna drop it right into our fixture and it's tight by design not gonna come out now we're gonna go ahead and marry up the second half here okay now there it is then you can see there's still a little bit of play because it's a plastic part it's not a hundred percent together and that's why we felt it was very important to add these nuts and bolts or these screws to allow us to get a real tight fit on the fixture now why did I do that well with the other 80% builds one of the things we saw happen one of the prime we saw happening was the people were not having the pin line up when they drilled a hole on one side and drilled a hole on the other side and I you know was talking to a lot of customers about that say what did you do how did you get there well they would actually you know put it into a vise drill a hole pull it out of the vise and put it back in tighten it up and drill a hole well the thing about that for a second so here's your your your drill okay your jig it's in the vise you tighten it down with the vise okay you screw it together and you drill your hole you take it out of the vise and it loosens up a little bit turn it around tighten it up in a vise it tightens up and it moves we're talking thousands of an inch here okay but it squeezes just a little bit differently every time also a lot of people want to finish the rails outside of a vise hey I just want to get into this jig and actually finish these rails right here by hand which is understandable so again a little bit of motion a little bit of movement this you know this thing starts to move around a little bit and the holes were not lining up so they put their PIN in and it's just missing by just one or two thousandths of an inch and they got to go in there and while that hold out a little bit and hence it wasn't perfect so we said well well there's got to be a better way and so the better way is this system that we came up with so we're gonna just drop one of these screws in here just for a demo and a nut goes in here in the back kind of keep that together grab a screwdriver little Phillips head right here and just tighten it up and we do that all the way around and you end up with this voila you can see I've got the three points of contact there and I've tighten this thing up where now it's not gonna move I can drill it I can take it out of the vise it's gonna stay in the same spot the holes are gonna be Trude up so the pin goes in and there's the exact and it's tight let me tell you what it's really tight all right there's one other thing we did in particular that will improve the overall experience and that is on the rear locking block which comes with this builders toolset the the locking block rail system we call it we didn't drill that hole in there because again it wasn't matching up with the holes that people were drilling in the plastic the reason we didn't do is because that seemed to be one of the problem points so what we are asking you to do encouraging you to do because it's gonna give you a better fit better build is that you drilled a hole through the plat through the plastic as well as super steel and it's not a big deal okay I'm gonna show you how we do it we're gonna do it right here with just the standard tools that we have here which is a standard cordless drill okay we also provide you with the corresponding drill bits so it's pretty much a no-brainer here you get the drill bits you get the rear or the front locking block rail system you also get in the tool set the rear or the trigger housing the rail system and there it is it already has the hole in it because this holes not as critical and we provide you with a longer trigger housing pin okay this pin is beveled on the edge both edges so it can find its way into this piece and that's a very tight right there but we want it to be tight because we want it to hold everything very tightly and it'll sit there like that inside the gun oops I get my fingers out of the way and that's how that sits okay so there's the builders tool set just to kind of recap they get the jig you get the screws to hold the jig tight you get the drill bits the locking box rail system the trigger housing rail system and a sticker so that's basically what you get of course to enable you to build this thing up into its pieces now let me go ahead and put all these guys aside really quickly because I wanna talk about some of the other things you're gonna need to create there's some of the tools you'll need besides what we just showed you the four that what we're gonna do today is utilize a dremel tool and a flat file and some sandpaper now this is wet/dry sandpaper it's I've got here and this side is well over here is the 400 grit and this is the 800 grit alright I'll show you how to use all those here shortly and let's see of course we did talk about a cornice drill the other thing that you may you know want to use it's not critical but it does certainly help finish is little wd-40 and we'll show you how this works a little bit later and that's actually for finishing the plastic not the steel parts okay so surprise surprise surprise now once you get the lower part complete with those two items then you may want to look at a parts kit and this is a Glock 43 parts clip and these are the parts that get digested into the frame itself when it's complete so the Glock 43 parts kit now go through all these things but we do sell these on our website it's a separate item of course and you will be able to use this to complete the lower that will then be ready to accept an upper or a slide and so we also on our website have complete slides and we've got a variety of different slides from a variety from manufacturers and of course we also have the ones that we make and here's one of our pyramid cut slides and it's a complete slide you can see how we have done some slide cuts on it to lighten it up a little bit and to make it a little bit more attractive and maybe even a little bit Lichter to help with concealed carry gun just to lighten it up a little bit so that's something we'll go ahead and talk about as we get down the road so we have slides of all varieties available on our website now let's go ahead and begin right now with the removal of the excess material that will allow us to put our rails in so you can see how it sticks up right here now we've got excess material on really three services well really four if you count each side one two three four and then there's a fifth in the front here let me show you that real quick before we begin whoops okay so let me take this guy out okay so the other material we're gonna remove is from the the front side right here and that's in the dust cover or the chamber or the channel in which the barrel lives as well now I've seen and I've heard all kinds of stories about how people remove this material literally you can just file off you can grind it off you can cut it off I've seen and heard about guys who have used a hot knife like a box cutter heat it up cut heat it up cut it and heat it up and cut it and get it down low and then we're gonna finish it with a flat file on the sandpaper and that's a little finishing trick that I think you really want to pay attention to because no matter how you get from point A which is here to point B to get these down there you want to finish it up nicely and the reason you want to do that one it looks better but two it also just smoothes it out and that W forty makes it look like factory fresh so so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just do it the old-fashioned way I'm gonna use a dremel tool and I've got this locked into my frame into my jig and I'm gonna go ahead and just put it into a vise because I have a vise it's one of my advices okay so I lock it in tight now what's nice again remember these screws capture it so the vise is going to alter it that much I don't want to crush it in there though be very careful you don't want to crush the plastic all we want to do is get it anchored there so it's not gonna move now for all the lawyers out there I want to put some safety glasses on because this is messy this plastic and this stuff is going to go flying all over the place and you certainly want to be respectful if you don't wanna do in your kitchen if you do you want to have some stuff on the floor because this stuff will fly out especially if you're using a dremel now if you're slicing it you probably a little bit more control if you're saying it's still it's gonna go you know all over the place so just be aware that this extra material is gonna go now this is a big fat grinding tool I'm gonna end up with a smaller one okay but I'm gonna use this just to get started and remove a lot of the big pieces this little one could do the whole job but I think I'm gonna get a little bit farther along just with this [Music] okay there's a good start [Music] okay and up here only the same thing [Music] I got a lot of it done and [Music] [Music] okay so again now this is kind of rough right now I can certainly see that I want to come back in with my smaller tool and finish up there we go a little wrench there the the edges and then we'll go ahead and finish it with our sandpaper and our file there and the key is is to use the fixture or jig as a guide and not eat up too much of the green material the green plastic and sometimes I'm going to just take it out of the out of the jig but I'm gonna go ahead and finish up right here [Music] okay yeah oh he's right there okay so now take my flat file take my glasses off I will say this though honestly I'm feeling some of that stuff lying in my face with that dremel tool so be very aware that you know this is not gonna be something that you want to have without glasses that looks pretty good so far same thing over here now okay it's pretty gray and pretty ugly and so you want to be aware of that and that's what's nice about that w4t I'll show you in just a second how it will finish that up we come back from this idea with a smaller part of this okay that's looking pretty good these are of course fairly inexpensive that all your hardware stores okay looks good now before I even take it out of this jig what I'm gonna do let's go back in here with this little plastic knife and just scrape away some of the pieces that overhanging and inspect it feel it make sure it's level and set okay we're good okay looking good right I feel good about it so far now what I want to do is go in and just clean up a little bit of the full piece before I take it out of there I'm gonna start with a 400 grit sandpaper now there's a couple ways to do this you go just tear this one and a half here and I'm gonna take my file and wrap it around my file and get it nice and tight so I have something to work with here and we're gonna try it just dry real quick yeah it feels good and the same thing up here now try this other side and that's pretty good and I would say what I would also do now go right to my 800 grit sandpaper and this is not necessarily absolutely positive you have to do this but I'll take it to the next level because it's something I want to do and the 800 is gonna make it that much smoother but here's the trick now okay so we take a little as wd-40 remember this is a wet/dry sandpaper so we're gonna just spray a little bit right on top of the sandpaper okay and now we're gonna take that wet let's see what happens now it's nice and smooth same thing up here now now it does a couple things that want to restores it to the same black color but it also will lubricate it and it kind of embeds itself in a plastic and it just looks better which always is a good thing right okay so now I think we have accomplished the first part of preparing this fixture or jig before to accept parts now when you take it out of the jig every once in a while you're gonna see a part sticking up and that's where we're gonna go back in with our hand and and bring it down and coming over here and looking over there everything looks good on this side I have a little small piece sticking up right here just a tiny tiny piece and I can bring that down with my file when I take it out of the jig here and that'll be fairly easy so let me go ahead unscrew these screws and we'll get access to the front and then we're gonna go ahead and drill the the holes at the trigger pin hole and the trigger housing pin hole okay so my jig I don't want to lose that cuz I'm gonna use it again I can look at my pieces here and they'll get a small piece sticking up right there a small piece there I couldn't get with the jig so let me go ahead and take my file and I'm just gonna sand those off okay I can still feel them so I may want to revert to my 400 grit sandpaper they get a little bit more aggressive there on that and there's a small piece back there so let's go ahead and take actually I'll just take the the file itself there we go that's better and I'm gonna do the same back here real quick just to bring that one piece down now the nice thing about this rear rail system is it seats itself and it can't go any lower okay that looks good so we're gonna do a final pass with our 800 grit sandpaper and last time here let's go ahead and get this folded up here and nice and tight a little wd-40 goes a long way okay and now we're just going by hand okay looks like that worked well let me get in here all right let's do our edges here just to clean those up inside if possible okay looks good and last one okay now we have one other things to take apart here or should I say grill away or grind away and they'll be that's front piece here but let me show you a good close-up of our rails and what they should look like when you're done so nice nice and smooth right here it looks like it was just supposed to be that way and of course there's some oil in there but that's okay wipe it off a little bit so yeah that's what it's supposed to look like beautiful nice work okay okay now we're gonna go ahead and grind this out now this is again this is kind of a big piece up here so I can do a couple of things in this this is something where you're gonna do mostly you know by sight there was just a line here you just want to come right down to the line we want to be careful this is something that you know people see so cosmetically you want to be you know make sure it's nice and smooth so what I like to do is drill out a big portion of that and then just file the rest and I'll show you that little technique because it takes a little bit of time but it ends up you know pretty darn sweet if you do you do it right so that's said let's go ahead and I guess I'll stick this into my advice and get it handled you can do this in a couple of ways not a bad idea to try it like this let's do this real quick well put a piece of paper in here so that we can protect the piece from the jaws of device so it's coming along pretty fast now it will probably take you a half hour I mean I'm sure guys can do it less than time that I'm doing this one but I would say don't be in a hurry just do a good job so let's try that real quick so you see what I'm doing there protecting that thing just a little bit all I'm trying to do is just make sure it's just my third hand here so it anchors it up and I want to crush it just want to hold it okay now I will go ahead and switch out bits I'm going to try this bit right here which is kind of a cone shaped a larger cone shape grinding bit and before we even start with that one I'm going to take the sandpaper to it and clean off just a little bit because the the polymer it basically melts onto this thing and not only does it grind it but it melted so we want to clean it off a little bit and get it down to more of a a rough surface get some of that plastic off there and then we'll come back with our small tip and be able to once we get that small tip in there be able to finish it and then we'll sand it just like we did before but with a little special sanding technique as I do know your own strength be careful to tighten it up there okay now I will stand up just a little bit to get a good angle here let me get my glasses back on because this stuff will fly away [Music] so you see I'm basically melting this as much as I am grinding it [Music] so what I'm gonna say to you again is I'm gonna try to stay away from the actual frame itself [Music] [Music] [Music] okay now making some pretty good progress [Music] okay all right so I've done most of it right now and I'm gonna come back in now with my smaller tool that will allow me to be a little bit more detail orientated so I get rid of most of the stuff now again like I said that's how I was doing it kind of you can see that it's melting away as much as grinding you know it's interesting because you kind of get a little better control what's the melting concept and this little one will do the same thing it's gonna melt most of it now get my glasses adjusted here [Music] okay pretty happy with where I'm at [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay this is gonna be done with the Dremel right now let me say we've got here to work with and then you'll kind of help me finish this up all right so here's what I've done I've got rid of most of stuff now one of the things I wanted to impress upon you right now is how I stayed away from the front of this carry so I can maintain that nice clean edge you notice what we did is we actually taper that back so you can do that now you look inside here it gets a little bit ugly or a little bit rough all right well that's you know basically just the rough tool getting that taking taken out of there what I'm gonna do now is go in with a large circular object it could be a punch say I got a big punch here this is the biggest one I have I'm going to take some of my 400 grit sandpaper which i think is just kind of here and I'm just gonna sand it up is what I'm gonna do and this is again this is this a hand hand job here so we're gonna just come in and and sand it down and again this is how you make it look pretty and without having any just I guess any disruption of that nice clean circle that we provide you with a clean half circle that we provide you with and will continue okay go back around the other side right here get a little bit more of the sandpaper part I just want to just feel it with my finger make sure it's work in there now if you have a round file obviously you can use that too when they do sell round files I want to be careful not to be too aggressive with this square file and I've got most of it go on there just a little bit more on on both sides here okay now go back with my sandpaper and we're almost done with the preparation of the frame now last thing we have to do of course is drill the hole for the locking block and the trigger housing rail system so here we go let me just do a little bit more filing here or so they say sandy this is my finishing technique [Music] it was really good I think I'm gonna like it mm-hmm want to feel smooth you know you've done a good job okay so now last thing we'll go ahead and get in there with our 800 grit sandpaper use a little bit of wd-40 and we'll be ready to drill some holes and again a little bit wet wet is good okay oh you have it I know her to see in there there you go you see just an outline of where that that was but there's you can't really feel it which is perfect it's gonna accept parts and gonna work great okay so now we're gonna go ahead and just wipe out some of the excess oil or so there's a wd-40 any of the filings that are down in there and again at this point it's still just a piece of plastic has not accepted a part yet but we are going to show you how to do the locking block this is a one big change like I said that we made that I feel has been a big improvement over some of the previous 80 percent lowers reason being is that it really does give you a more precise hole you will need some type of lubricant on the drill bit as you go okay so it looks like the only fits good so here's a locking block okay we're gonna stick it into the frame now it is tight it is tight by design but it does go in it does come out you know when you take it out you're gonna find that it's gonna take a little bit of a pressure and you probably need some needle nose pliers to kind of pry it out there you will need to take it back out after you drill the hole to actually assemble that because you're gonna be putting the trigger system in there and the slide stop lever in there as well but first we're gonna go ahead and get it in there drill the hole I'll do the same for the other rail system and then we'll come back and assemble our parts and pieces and and put this thing together and then we'll go out shoot it and it's gonna happen all very shortly here I know this takes a little bit of time but in order to insert the locking block I'm going to come and call on my trusty gunsmithing hammer which includes a unique well what I really like is this nylon head a steel head and then there's a brass head that does screw off and all these guys screw off as well so you can replace that but for this purpose we're gonna use the steel because we're stealing steel or the nylon so I don't even mess it up and the main thing is I could push it in there by hand but I'm gonna just head and tap it in with a hammer and I'm gonna look inside there and you saw that we had some teeth that are gonna intersect with a post down there and it's gonna see the stuff all the way low and flush to the rail and you can kind of get a look at that right there that's what it's supposed to look like I'm gonna give it a nice little friendly tap and a nice little friendly tap and then right here to Center and there it is in there okay and that's what we're looking for it is fully seated all right now we're gonna drill our holes I can drill the hole with or without this trigger housing rail system you know what I'm gonna leave it out right now and it's easier if you leave it out because then you have to take it back out it will put it in here in just a minute and once that's in that's usually stays in alright so here we go let's go ahead like this now you know what let me go and drop that in there real quick I'll just do that because it will allow me to show you that these holes to match up now it's gonna be tight as well so you're gonna go ahead and drop it in you're gonna pound it in then you have to pull it out remember that okay and that's what we're looking for for it to be fully seated we're not looking to bend those things we're looking to bring them all the way down just to where they're supposed to be and you can see that they are in there good got him in now you like I said you can do it both ways you can drill it without this in here mr. grouse a rail system or you can drill it with there because of the holes are gonna match up I'm gonna go and just drill it up there just so you can see how they match up and I've done a coach ways but be be aware you want to make sure it is fully seated okay there we go now that said everything looks good here's where your rails should look like come on here close we're looking for fully see the piece up here and same thing back here nice evenly spaced from front to back okay now back into the jig it goes fixture jig lots of names for it fits nice and tight back out here take our screws do these one at a time as well alright so far so good you know like I said this does take a little bit of time and we're probably what a half hour in here or so but tell you what these things turn out great and I've had ten months to try them and we we really are just super pleased with the way it came out and we're hoping you guys are too any last ones right here okay there we go now I'm gonna snug them up because I want this to be tight and I want it to be the same when I take it out of the drill we're out of the device and I want to have any movement okay I will take it out to turn it around and it's interesting when you're tighten one side up then you have to go back and tighten the other one up because it does move okay there you have it now into the press it goes now so I'm going to go ahead and drill the four millimeter hole first and I'll get it seated and we don't want to crush it but I do want to hold it firm okay I'm not trying to change shape at all just trying to hold it this table because it's in a studio is on wheels so it does have a tendency to move a little bit this is our cordless drill you could use a corded drill usually I have a little bit more power but this should be no problem we've done it you know all the time with a cordless drill to be honest four millimeter first okay we got it in there okay now like I said I've got some oil to use as lubrication if you've ever been in a machine shop and you looked at a CNC machine and it's you know of course we have a machine shop here so this is why I'm telling you this story obviously there's tons of lubricant and fluid flying around on the drill bits and on the part itself I mean to the point where heating see the part is that much lubricant but even then when it drills a hole into steel or even aluminum the vertical drill it vertical CNC machine it comes in two pecks at the hole up and down up and down up and down and basically at that paint that cadence to just did just a little bit of time the reason it does that one so it doesn't overheat the tool and or break the tool because tools are expensive so we want to use same sort of concept here drilling through the plastic is fairly easy it's plastic steel right but getting to the steel that's what we're gonna apply our lubricant and we're gonna peck at it and pull back and peck at it and pull back and you'll see material start to come out and it doesn't take too long but it sure will take a little bit more time than just drilling plastic now the key to this guy is to make sure let me get myself situated here a little bit that you go in straight even though you have a fixture and a jig and there's a hole here we want to go in straight and keep it straight so we want to try to be as level as possible get yourself down low and kind of just go in and I'm gonna drill the plastic first and we'll see some plastic come out [Applause] and there are some plastic flying out see the plastic on there that's easy that's what we expect to see so here we go again now I can feel the seal so I feel the steel my pullout clean my bit off a little bit and I'm gonna use something we use in our shop allows this gun butter and I like the gun butter because it's very effective and I'm gonna be liberal by applying some of this now one of the things I I learned is you don't want to use wd-40 on your drill bit because the wd-40 is so effectively it migrates so effectively it'll migrate down the drill bit into the chuck and then you'll be spinning the bit versus actually getting to the material so don't use wd-40 that was my mistake the first time use some kind of oil that has a good lubrication but it doesn't migrate all right here I am against the steel and I'm going to peck at it in a little bit out a little bit out in a little bit out I'm starting to see some steel filings come out so I'm gonna come back in a little bit more oil and a little bit more loyal and I'm gonna tell you right now don't be afraid to use some oil because it will make your life a lot easier you can see that material being pushed out by the drill come back in a little bit more little okay looking on it hard back out and we're through now we're through so we're gonna back it out a little bit more oil up and down I'm gonna go back in and clean the hole up and that's it voila not too long not too hard a little bit of muscle but and you can see some of the material that gets gathered around which is you're basically steel shavings okay so let's go back and do the other side there we go okay here we go with our oil again [Applause] okay we're into the steel so I'll come back out and do some oil and what's really interesting to me is how the oil disappears and just burns off because of the heat now you may not see me come all the way out and all the way back in but what I'm doing is I'm pushing and just pulling off a little bit pushing and pulling off I'm not necessarily disengaging from the material but what I am doing is removing some of the pressure so it's not constant pressure because this will overheat trust me and kind of hear it as I go in and out you can see all that steel coming out there done let's go into a little bit more I'm gonna clean that hole up what I'm trying to do is make sure I get all the tailings left on so the pin goes in nice and smooth if there's a little piece sticking up there it'll be you know that's a pound through it so okay so that is basically our locking block hole oh look at that it's beautiful no ow let's see here if you can I can put this up to my eye and see if you can see me oh I see here is it in there there's my hole it's a beautiful thing and on the other side is a little bit of the steel that came out of there and you know again if you look at my hole after I'm done I haven't buggered that hole up too much it looks pretty round still the plastic that is okay so that means that you know I was probably fairly true and I wasn't going in at an angle which i think is very important now let's go ahead and go and do our our three millimeter drill bit which is your marked right here three millimeters is and let's see if you can read that like so there is three millimeter and this will be for our trigger housing so I'm gonna change our drill bit up anchor this back into my my vice move it over here so it has a little bit of support okay that feels good looks good the drill bit is right here so let's get this done okay got that done okay now this is just plastic going so I don't need a lubricant here but I do want to make sure I'm straight and square because I'm going to be intersecting with the hole that's already in the locking block okay that was pretty easy there it is right there okay that went pretty fast yeah we'll do the next side and you see how it just went right through the locking block itself okay last hole here we go easy okay there you have it and we'll check in that hole out too just for the heck of it we've drilled our holes this one has a little debris in there so I could probably go back in with a punch and clean all that up beautiful see if you can get in there let's see if I get here like so I guess you're not gonna see there's a little bit of light there yeah it's got a little bit of debris in there still so cleaned up okay so now what we're gonna do is take another jig and go to part two because the frame is basically ready now at this point to accept our Glock 43 lower parts so stay with me on part two [Music]

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Length: 56min 53sec (3413 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 14 2018