Type 3 slide question

[tenOC]

True, you shouldn't experience any problems. Some NPM slides are a hybrid slide. If yours is marked N15 (I think) in the slide bucket it may be one.

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[jond41403]

True, you shouldn't experience any problems. Some NPM slides are a hybrid slide. If yours is marked N15 (I think) in the slide bucket it may be one.

The type 4 slide that is on my carbine now is an IBM marked EE AOB.the type 3 slide I received is an IBM marked C AOB

[AFJon]

The U.S. Caliber .30 Carbines - Slides

Issue with the Type 3 is the possibility of bending or breakage. You'd be better off using the existing slide.

[jond41403]

The U.S. Caliber .30 Carbines - Slides

Issue with the Type 3 is the possibility of bending or breakage. You'd be better off using the existing slide.

That's what I was thinking too. That's why I tried to buy another type 4 in case I needed to replace the type 4 that's already on my carbine.I just didn't realize it was a type 3 until it arrived in the mail. I'm thinking I will just send it back and get another type 4(which is what I thought I was buying in the first place). I guess that's what I get for ordering something at 2 in the morning and half asleep. The seller had it labeled as a type 4 and I should have caught the mistake because his pictures clearly showed a type 3 once I realized what I had in my hand and went back and looked at the pictures closer.I knew about the arm joint being weaker but I was more concerned with the type 3's not having the dwell time machined in like the type 4's do. I thought maybe they made this change because the bolt was opening too fast before the pressures could be released