Ever seen the retaining piece on a SIG mag release? The size of a small mosquito combined with the speed of a light 22-250 bullet. You’ll never see it again unless you started work in a gallon ziplock.
And when you DO find the spring, etc., it's nowhere near where you were looking for it. Also, it will only reappear when you've bought and installed a replacement.
#20 Haven't had that happen to me either (yet), but have had to call a Green Flag and help someone else find their's down range(100 yd range; grass), at least 3 times...
I have a big round magnet on the end of a 3' long handle, that works extremely well for sweeping over the ground about an inch off the ground, and will find something like that. It's satisfying to do that and listen to the "tick, tick, tick" noise as it picks up myriad small metal objects that you can't even see in the dirt or gravel, and the ticking is the sound of them clicking onto the magnet.
#5 Why so complicated you guys never heard of a bent coke can and a rank pin. #13 Also the remote control for the 50s and 60's #20 not a spring but I launched the Recoil spring plug into the air once (NOTE ONCE)
#5 Why so complicated you guys never heard of a bent coke can and a rank pin. #13 Also the remote control for the 50s and 60's #20 not a spring but I launched the Recoil spring plug into the air once (NOTE ONCE)
#20 Had a spring plug go up through a running ceiling fan and come back down without touching a blade. Dropped back onto the table I was using to clean the 1911. jack
#20. I haven't lost a spring, but I have sent a recoil spring plug to "God only knows where."
ReplyDeleteEver seen the retaining piece on a SIG mag release?
DeleteThe size of a small mosquito combined with the speed of a light 22-250 bullet. You’ll never see it again unless you started work in a gallon ziplock.
totally get it
ReplyDelete#20 is a winner! so true.
ReplyDeleteAnd when you DO find the spring, etc., it's nowhere near where you were looking for it. Also, it will only reappear when you've bought and installed a replacement.
Delete20 - S&W 22 A1. That thing needs to be cleaned in one of those sealed plastic boxes with the gloves that you slip your hands into.
ReplyDelete#20 Haven't had that happen to me either (yet), but have had to call a Green Flag and help someone else find their's down range(100 yd range; grass), at least 3 times...
ReplyDelete#5 Keflavik, Iceland, Naval Air Station, 1972-3.
ReplyDelete#5- they found that somewhere in the former West Germany.
ReplyDelete#5 I am legend.
ReplyDelete#20 Been there. Thankfully the floor was white tile and it was easy to find.
#1 - If that shit doesn't make it before Christmas, imagine the January sales!
ReplyDelete#5 - I had one very much like that.
I'm sharing #13
#20 The spring under the sear(?) on mom's Ruger Security Six, in carpet. Fortunately, I wasn't too far from a wall, so I found it in 10 or 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteI have a big round magnet on the end of a 3' long handle, that works extremely well for sweeping over the ground about an inch off the ground, and will find something like that.
DeleteIt's satisfying to do that and listen to the "tick, tick, tick" noise as it picks up myriad small metal objects that you can't even see in the dirt or gravel, and the ticking is the sound of them clicking onto the magnet.
Tim in AK
#5 Why so complicated you guys never heard of a bent coke can and a rank pin. #13 Also the remote control for the 50s and 60's #20 not a spring but I launched the Recoil spring plug into the air once (NOTE ONCE)
ReplyDelete#5 Why so complicated you guys never heard of a bent coke can and a rank pin. #13 Also the remote control for the 50s and 60's #20 not a spring but I launched the Recoil spring plug into the air once (NOTE ONCE)
ReplyDelete#20 There are a couple of ways to do that on an AR lower. I have a couple of "oops kits" thanks to them.
ReplyDeleteThe detent balls on the A2 rear sight. I, too, have the magnet on a stick thing, It's how I retrieve the detent balls...
Delete#20 Ruger Mark IV Recoil Spring. Heard where it hit against the wall on the other side of the room. Had to move two couches to get at it.
ReplyDelete#5 Opened the desk drawer at a new company whose previous occupant had vacated the Friday before. That was the first thing I saw.
Nemo
#20 Had a spring plug go up through a running ceiling fan and come back down without touching a blade. Dropped back onto the table I was using to clean the 1911.
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#20 Bersa Thunder. Only one big-@$$ spring that’s tapered at one end so it holds on to the barrel. The only way to lose it is on purpose.
ReplyDelete#5 made out of hollowed out BNC connectors.
ReplyDeleteI thought the spring in the picture was too big...
ReplyDelete#20 always work on gun with a cat in the room. I always mange to drop a screw or springs while working on one of my Smiths
ReplyDelete#20 LOVE IT.
ReplyDelete#5: Don't those things get sorta warm?
ReplyDeleteAsking for a friend.
#5 - Harshest toke ever!
ReplyDelete#5 for the win.
ReplyDeleteI stuck a hunk of fuel line on it to keep from burning my lips.
So did I. Had a suppressor like that a some forest dwarf stole. Fucking acid.
ReplyDeleteColesdad
#20-I shredded a paper target at an indoor range with the flash suppressor off a FAL
ReplyDelete#5 for the win. Built one myself, with a petcock to boot.
ReplyDeleteJust to curb the Bogarts. =)
I have a pet cock too...
DeleteGot a .380 auto Colt pistol?
ReplyDeleteDon't EVER lose that tiny retention spring on the slide stop.
Impossible-to-find replacement.