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We got that from the other thread in which you called him a liar, acted like a petulant child
Always possible that it's a problem with a certain batch of guns and may not effect all. It's happened before. For a while we had recoil springs that were fraying and unwinding at low round counts. Then we had a rash of extractors that were breaking.
There's got to be a record of it somewhere. My agency contacted SIG about the issue, so they had to have data to back it up. SIG concurred, or at least acquiesced, and is replacing the pins. It's taking a long time to do it. My 5th issued P229 was one of the multitude sent to HQ for SIG to "fix". That was over a month ago and I haven't got it back yet.
SIG makes great stuff, definitely one of my favorite gunmakers, but they all have problems now and again.
I concur on Sig making great stuff, if indeed it wasn't just a batch problem which it doesn't sound like to me, I hope they do the right think and trickle it down to us civilians. I wouldn't think they would go back to the solid pin unless it was specifically requested and they thought it was the better way to go. I was thinking that the machining tolerances for the solid pin are different in that the splined side has to be a bit tighter by a few thou to engage the splines fully but I could be thinking incorrectly on that. If that is the case though, I can really see why they want their own guys to do the work as it'll probably take something reaming or a oversized solid pin to be backwards compatible. Thanks for the insight though, something to be on the lookout for.
On the guns with the solid pin, the pin has to be installed from left to right, and removed from right to left. Basically, the head with the splines needs to be on the left side.
No matter what kind of pin you have, if you ever remove it, you don't put the old pin back it........it gets a new one.