same basic assembly/disassembly steps for the Accu-Tek XL-9 also apply to the following gun:
Accu-Tek BL-9
| Data: | Accu-Tek XL-9 |
| Origin: | United States |
| Manufacturer: | Excel Industries, |
| Chino, California | |
| Cartridge: | 9x19mm (9mm Luger) |
| Magazine capacity: | 5 rounds |
| Overall length: | 5.56 inches |
| Height: | 4.18 inches |
| Barrel length: | 3 inches |
| Weight: | 24 ounces |
Mechanically, the XL-9 is essentially the same as a BL-9, but in beautifully-finished stainless steel. Both pistols were made from 1997 to 2003. Simple and reliable, they were until recently the smallest 9x19mm in existence. I have been told that the XL-9 will be re-introduced soon, in a slightly revised version.
Field Strip:
1. Remove the magazine, and pull the takedown latch down until it stops.
2. Pull the slide all the way back, lift it at the rear, and move it off the frame toward the front. Except for repair, the recoil spring is best left in place on the barrel. It is tightly fitted at the rear.
Accu-Tek XL-9 field-stripped
Detail Strip:
3. The extractor and its coil spring are retained in the slide by a vertical roll-pin. If removal is necessary, use a proper roll-pin punch. The dovetail-mounted rear sight can be drifted out.
4. Fully depressing the firing pin safety block will release the firing pin for removal.
5. After the firing pin is taken out, the safety block and its coil spring can be removed. A hooked tool can be used to extract the firing pin rebound spring.
6. Remove the screw and take off the right grip panel. CAUTION:The trigger spring may be released. Detach and remove the combination trigger and trigger bar spring.
7. Remove the trigger bar.
8. If necessary for repair, drift out the trigger pin and turn the trigger into the guard space for removal. The two pins above the trigger space are not removed in normal takedown.
9. Remove the screw and take off the left grip panel. Restrain the magazine catch, and drift out the catch cross-pin. CAUTION:Control the magazine catch as the drift punch is taken out. Note that the pin is a splined type, and must be drifted out toward the left.
10. Ease the magazine catch outward, and remove it.
11. Remove the combination magazine catch and hammer spring.
12. Drift out the hammer cross-pin.
13. Remove the hammer, ejector, and firing pin block safety lever upward.
14. If necessary for repair, the hammer strut can be removed by drifting out the cross-pin.
15. The takedown latch detent ball and its powerful coil spring are staked in place. This system is not removed in normal disassembly.
Reassembly Tips:
1. When installing the ejector, hammer, and firing pin block lever, move the cross-pin across in increments as you put in each part. Note that the hammer must stay vertical, to align the relief-cut in the hammer strut for passage of the pin.
2. Insert a drift punch of the proper size to hold the magazine catch in place, as the pin is reinstalled.
3. The trigger bar and the combination spring are shown here in proper reassembly positions.
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