TALON T100 380 BROKEN SLIDE

Question

Help. I am working on a gun. A Talon T100 380. The problem is that the slide has a break from top to bottom opposite of the ejection port. I need a new slide. Any ideas? Or could I weld it. It looks like it is steel.

Answer

I don’t know where you might find a slide; try the usual places i.e. Gun Parts, or Jack First distributors. I am not familiar with that exact model but if the slide is steel AND the crack is not near a locking surface or too close to the breech face you could weld it up, NORMALIZE it and reblue it. I think that this model is a straight blow back therefore there would be no locking lug surfaces to worry about.