slide not locking to the rear-solution

[lance]

I have a new polish tok and when I first fired it the slide would not lock to the rear on the last shot. Also, if I loaded a fresh magazine magazine the slide would spring forward as I slid the magazine in the well. If I set the pistol down, sometimes the slide would spring forward. Some attribute this to a rounded slide stop, or weak magazine springs.

After examining all my magazines, 1 polish, 2 hungarian, I determined the problem. The spring wasn't pushing up the follower to engage the slide stop. I disassembled the magazines and looked at the spring and how it was aligned. Well, after experimenting with the springs, I came to the following conclusion, the spring in a tok magazine only has one correct way to be installed. That is where the small circle on one end of the spring is toward the rear of the magazine. This allows the lower part of the follower to be better supported by the spring and thus force the slide stop up to grap the notch. It's not much, a fraction of an inch.

Tested my theory last week, no misfires, the slide locks back every time with 50 mag changes, great pistol, with a new chinese barrel it shoots one hole groups at 15yds. I hope this info helps sombody, Toks are neat pistols.

[Noah Zark]

Lance:

First, welcome to the GunsNet boards!

I really appreciate your sharing your experiences with troubleshooing the Tok slide stop/mag follower/spring orientation issue. Great job on the troubleshooting, and others can learn from your advice to first check their mag springs for correct assembly.

Thank you!

Noah

[jhnn88]

i had the same problem annoyed the crap out of me i thought i broke the darn thing .but then i thought back to a post were some guy put new parts in a gun because he could not figure out what was wrong but found he spent $300 redueing his gun when it was just a falty mag. so i said to myself its the mag and i fixed it. i was wondering were i could get a new barrel where did you get yours.

[lance]

I got a brand new chinese chrome lined barrel for $20 from numerich, paid a local gunsmith $10 to install the link, it shoots very well and actually fits better than the old polish barrel. I also got original grips thru ebay from a guy in poland, $11.00 shipping included. Chinese holsters are $9 from global trades. One thing I like about this pistol, if something breaks, parts are dirt cheap and everywhere.