[Misfire]

I wonder if that would work for my x-wife?

Using an 90% alcohol-based solution works great on the trigger safety, but it may have the opposite effect on your wife... Preparing her a high-alcoholic liquid solution for my wife to reduce the squeaky effect just had the opposite effect...

I need to work some more on an all-round formula...

 

[shadeogray]

Just a squirt of simple ole Remington Gun Cleaner works great. Stops the squeak instantly.

 

[St8kout]

I'm a bit late to this thread and had oiled my trigger to stop the squeak, which it did. Why is using oil on this a bad thing, other than it getting on your trigger finger?

 

[kampers]

Please Don't use Break Free Powder Blast on Plastic Parts

Safariland Break Free Powder Blast contains ACETONE and TOLULENE. Both of these chemical fluids can damage plastic and maybe damage the Polymer Parts on your gun.

I would not recommend using this product to clean a gun that has plastic parts coming into contact with metal or other plastic parts. The parts can warp or change shape and cause damage to the gun potentially.

There are other cleaners that used petroleum distillates that may be safer for your plastic guns than Break Free Power Blast.

Read the small print on the side of the can.

Now regular rubbing alcohol may be better to use. But the Acetone can dissolve plastic parts.

Ended up using a can of compressed air to blow the Breakfree out and wiping with isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab. A squeak was still there afterwards but was gone within a few days. I am never lubing my trigger safety again!

 

[kampers]

I got some light weight oil on my trigger mechanism when I lubed the top part of the trigger area thinking that the springs in there needed some oil. Now I'm reading this thread. Luckily my trigger does not squeak. But I did noticed some scratches on the side of the trigger where it goes back into the plastic housing. Evidently something inside the trigger housing is rubbing on the side of the trigger and making those scratch marks on the side of the trigger. It's only on one side and it's at the very top part of my trigger. Top part of the visible part of the trigger. When I pull the trigger the scratched area goes up inside the trigger housing area and the scratched area of the trigger is hidden inside the trigger housing. I noticed that I can physically move the trigger to the other side by pushing it with my fingers. There is some play in the trigger that allows it to move side to side about a millimeter or so. Not sure if it's been like that all along or something changed and shifted the trigger to one side making it get scratches when the trigger is pulled. I'm sure that it adds some friction to the trigger pull. But it's very minimal. Since the plastic is black in color it's easy to not see the scratches unless you look at the gun at a certain angle under certain lighting conditions.

 

[Iceman9]

I got some oil into the trigger safety area, squeaked. Cleaned it out with rubbing alcohol and blew out with canned air. No squeak.

 

[3ricz]

Wondering if you guys disassembled the trigger when you cleaned the trigger/safety with the isopropyl and compressed air. Or did you just leave the trigger assembly alone. I'm still hearing the squeaky sound. Unless i just have to wait a couple days to go away.
I just took a cotton swab and dipped it into the isopropyl and swabbed the trigger safety and used compressed air afterwards.

 

[cardguy]

Trigger still has great feel (not the grit some have pointed out) but just the plastic on plastic squeak prior to actual trigger travel. I will try a different brand of lube (using hoppes). Recommendations?

Use Weapon Shield. It stays where you put it and it's super slippery too.

 

[aklim69]

I wonder if that would work for my x-wife?

You could spray her down but it'd be murder so the divorce is probably cheaper.

 

[aklim69]

My trigger was sprayed down with CLP, I think. No squeak yet. Reason was that I went to the bathroom and the friend thought he was doing me a favor by hitting the spot I missed.

 

[imaoldfart]

Just a minute.....your friend pees CLP....or, maybe it wasn't CLP? I think I'd be looking for a new friend.

Personally, I've never tried to clean OR oil that little booger. I've also NEVER heard it squeak (but, maybe that cuz I have CHS).

 

[aklim69]

Just a minute.....your friend pees CLP....or, maybe it wasn't CLP? I think I'd be looking for a new friend.

I don't know what he pees. I never checked

I told him NEVER to spray stuff into my gun again unless he wants to have the apple on his head as a target.

 

[P71pilot]

Mine also has squeeky safety lever

 

[ss708]

I bought a PPQ and picked it up yesterday from the FFL. Dry firing it at home, I noticed that the trigger safety was a little squeaky. Thinking that oil would be the solution to any kinds of squeaks, I put a couple drops of oil on it toward the axle, but that just made it louder - and worse, the trigger now got oil on my finger.

A google search brought me to this thread, which indicates I should counter-intuitively de-lube the trigger to solve the problem, so I sprayed a little Milcomm MC-25 degreaser (like Simple Green for guns) on it, followed it with rubbing alcohol to aid in drying, and voila! the squeaking is now gone. So, many thanks to the people posting advice to degrease the trigger. That solved the problem.

 

[olsoul]

Welcome to the Forums ss. There is a lot of good info here and great folks who go out of their way to share it.

 

[imaoldfart]

OK, I got my new hearing aids the other day, and guess what? While doing a little smoothing work on my PPQ M1 triggers, I was sitting there squeezing the trigger and I heard this strange squeaking noise. I said to myself 'L I B'....it DOES make a squeaking noise. So, I held the gun up close to my ear and worked the trigger OH, that's the little trigger safety dingus making that noise, so I gave that little puppy a few shots of 'powdered graphite'. Then used the air compressor and a little shot of air to blow off the excess....worked the trigger back and forth a few times, then held it up to my ear and squeezed the trigger....HEY, NO squeak.

That's all I know.

 

[brianjkeene]

I have two PPQ M2s and one of them makes the annoying squeaking. As most have said, it doesn't affect function at all that I can tell - but it does drive me a bit crazy during dry fire...which I do a lot of in order to work on proper grip and trigger control.

 

[Iceman9]

Rubbing alcohol cured mine.

 

[kampers]

Safariland Breakfree is Acetone in it.

Ended up using a can of compressed air to blow the Breakfree out and wiping with isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab. A squeak was still there afterwards but was gone within a few days. I am never lubing my trigger safety again!

I would strongly advise against using Safariland Breakfree spray cleaner on the plastic parts of the PPQ as the acetone in it will attack and or soften the plastic.

Alcohol may work better. I used the Safariland Breakfree on my PPQ and found out the hard way. My trigger was buttery smooth before that and now it's scratching the side of the trigger on the frame. So something is out of alignment now.

 

[Cross]

Duly noted! I used Breakfree CLP from a bottle to oil my trigger safety which caused it to squeak. Cleaning it out with isopropyl alcohol and compressed air eventually cured it. I'm not sure if that's the same as what you're talking about which may be Breakfree Powder Blast aerosol.