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Originally Posted by Wepeel
I'm wondering, will a steel slide stop wear out the notch on an aluminium frame?
I use the slide stop a lot for releasing the slide instead of slingshotting and I can only find steel aftermarket slide stops.
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I'm assuming you made a typo, and that you're asking about the slide rather than the frame, correct?
Whenever you have a harder/tougher material bearing against a softer/malleable material, the weaker material will always give way to the harder material. In this case, an aluminum slide catch notch will give way to the tougher steel slide stop. Also, the stiffer your recoil spring, the faster this wear and deformation will be accelerated.
There are a number of machined aluminum and die cast zinc-aluminum slide stops available... sadly, they generally run around the same price (if not more expensive) than the aftermarket steel options. The best cheap option, is to get an original Marui part.