plastic frame

I doubt it since you would have to smash it, run over it with a car, drop it in a deep fryer or take a torch to it.

I doubt Springfield would do anything unless it caused the gun to malfunction.

chibigui said:

I don't have any problems with my frame but I'm wondering what would happen if it got damaged, perhaps scratched badly or melted a little bit or some of it got chiped off. Would springfield fix it or give me a new frame under the lifetime warrenty or would I have to buy a new frame? If I did, I wonder how much it would cost.

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What did you do to your gun I have a feeling this is not a hypothetical question.

I would guess that any of the situations described are not considered normal wear and tear and would not be covered. I wouldn't expect them to replace for free your frame that you melted on a hot stove or something. :?

They might suprise you and replace it. I know I read where S&W replaced a Sigma frame after the owners Rottweiler ate it.

ranburr

I was just thinking about it last time I was cleaning it. I wonder it, is it possible and easy to fix a damaged frame? Say, if a chunk was grouged out of it. Really, there is nothing wrong with my frame, I just got thinking about it since it's just plastic and more easily damaged than the metel. I do plan on getting some stainless steel parts for it made though, such as the locking block and take down lever and pins.

I think those parts are already metal.

I think they're metal as well.

This isn't just your garden variety plastic. These "polymers" are fairly high-tech. There are plenty of metals that will give up the ghost before this stuff. Good luck breaking it!

Seriously--I wouldn't worry about it for a second. If it breaks in some kind of freak accident, SA should make good on it.

I think a sharp object could dig in to the frame easily or anything that's metal pressing on it could dig in to it.

Can it be scratched, dented, broken? Sure. So can steel.

If you're going to be putting your weapons into situations where a polymer gun would be destroyed and a steel one would survive, then by all means buy a steel gun.

Just keep in mind that a 20,000 round torture test was performed on the XD: http://www.hs2000talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=20502 , part of which (if I'm not mistaken) involved a truck running over and being parked on top of the weapon, as well as being tossed off a cliff. No breakage, no failures to fire, no nothing. Scratched? A little (last page in that thread has post test pics)...but that's just character. I don't think a 1911 wouldn't have come out looking so rosy.

It's tough as nails. What are you afraid of?