jerkeejoe Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 So, my frame weight and thumb rest arrived today. The frame weight is incredibly easy to install, but the instructions for the thumb rest install are not great. Additionally, I’m not overly anxious to drill a hole in my frame. Is it really necessary to drill a hole in the frame to install the thumbrest or will I be fine with the thumbrest just attached to the secured frame weight without drilling my frame for the thumbrest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigsauerfan Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 the reason i went with the toni system. the thumb rest is bolted onto the frame weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkeejoe Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) The thumb rest screws onto the weight with this setup with three screws. The thumb rest feels really solid without the frame drilling, so my only concern is that pressure on the thumb rest might flex the frame and cause it to rub on the slide. I’m gonna shoot it tomorrow morning and see how it goes. Edited January 5, 2018 by jerkeejoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamboSoup22 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 I would have the same concern that you have. I haven’t used their thumb rest but I would worry about the frame flex as well. Drilling into the gram was the easy part. I did it to install their micro dot mount. I believe it’s he same hole size and screw in both appplications. The painful part was inletting enough material to fit the eye. This is what the screw threads into. I just went slowly with a dremel until the eye was into the frame enough to clear the guide rod. I have a gen 3 frame. My buddy said his experience was a lot easier than mine but I do think he said that you have to convert to a gen 3 guide rod for it. At least that’s what I think he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkeejoe Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 5 hours ago, CamboSoup22 said: I would have the same concern that you have. I haven’t used their thumb rest but I would worry about the frame flex as well. Drilling into the gram was the easy part. I did it to install their micro dot mount. I believe it’s he same hole size and screw in both appplications. The painful part was inletting enough material to fit the eye. This is what the screw threads into. I just went slowly with a dremel until the eye was into the frame enough to clear the guide rod. I have a gen 3 frame. My buddy said his experience was a lot easier than mine but I do think he said that you have to convert to a gen 3 guide rod for it. At least that’s what I think he said. Thanks for the input. That's the exact same concern I have. The hole drilling is very easy, the inletting, I'm not so sure about. Any chance you can share a picture of the finished inletting so I can get a netter idea what is required? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamboSoup22 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Yeah. I’ll take a picture of it tonight when I get home. It’s not very pretty. I did it late one night. And I had a competition the next day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamboSoup22 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 if you do it yourself I’m sure you can do it a lot better than I did. Just take your time and buy some various sanding bits for a dremel. I was very limited and in a time crunch. Take a little out at a time and check the fitment of the eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIO Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 19 hours ago, CamboSoup22 said: if you do it yourself I’m sure you can do it a lot better than I did. Just take your time and buy some various sanding bits for a dremel. I was very limited and in a time crunch. Take a little out at a time and check the fitment of the eye. YIKES! Was Whiskey involved in this incident?..lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkeejoe Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 19 hours ago, CamboSoup22 said: if you do it yourself I’m sure you can do it a lot better than I did. Just take your time and buy some various sanding bits for a dremel. I was very limited and in a time crunch. Take a little out at a time and check the fitment of the eye. Thanks for the pic man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkeejoe Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 24 minutes ago, GIO said: YIKES! Was Whiskey involved in this incident?..lol. Haha. I’m just grateful to have a pic to give me an idea. I searched the inter webs and couldn’t find a pic until this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamboSoup22 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 1 hour ago, GIO said: YIKES! Was Whiskey involved in this incident?..lol. Hehe. Possibly. It was a long day of work followed by a late night trip to Walmart for a dremel and they didn’t have a lot of options on sanding bits. And an event the next day. Some could have got mixed in at some point. It was like @jerkeejoe it would have been a lot easier if I had one picture to go off of. I couldn’t find anything either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkeejoe Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Well, I still haven't inletted for the thumbrest screw, but have shot the gun a bunch, including a match last night. I'm not seeing any problems at all yet. Leaning toward not drilling the frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamboSoup22 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Have you used a thumb rest before? The first one I had on my glock was the pin style. At first I mainly used it as indexing for the support hand. After while shooting with it. I found that I was starting to use it more and more for recoil management. I actually broke one of the pin style. I’ve since switched to a 2011 and really use the thumb rest for recoil management. I’d still recommend doing an inspection on everything periodically for sanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseyglock Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 On 1/7/2018 at 5:12 PM, jerkeejoe said: Thanks for the pic man. You know you suppose to heat that tab to red hot then insert (melt) into frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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