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I received my new NS522 (along with a JW20 and JW25A to round out the collection!) and a little before Christmas, thanks to CanAm's deals. I'm very excited to see what this gun can do, thanks to the NS522 mods thread...

But - long story short - during my initial deep clean, I managed to launch my left extractor spring plunger pin across the room, never to be found again. :runaway: It was one of those "Oh... CRAP!" comical moments that I may be able to laugh about in years to come.

Am I doomed? Or is going in search of a machine shop to carve me another, using the right side one as a template, my only real option at this point?

I feel like such an idiot for letting it happen! Next time, I'm going to do the reassembly inside a giant ziplock bag so if it tries to go for another flight, it'll get caught...

TIA for any wisdom or suggestions!
 
I HATE that sound... Sproiiiiiiiing!!!!! Fortunately I've only ever done it with ARs, and carry a healthy stock of small parts and springs for that reason!

Hope you get it worked out!
 
I spent good 10 minutes with a magnet on the floor looking for that darned thing. Twice!

Good luck with the replacement!
 
Finding or making pins is easy. The spring will be tougher but it's still doable. If you really get stuck someone here can help. I've done more than a few springs for my own guns as well.
 
Do not use one as a mirrored template for the other. It you choose to do that you need to copy the actual part.
The cut of the extractor is different. If I were you if keep looking for the lost one. If you don't find it put a wtb ad into the EE and wait.



ValorousSalmon said:
I received my new NS522 (along with a JW20 and JW25A to round out the collection!) and a little before Christmas, thanks to CanAm's deals. I'm very excited to see what this gun can do, thanks to the NS522 mods thread...

But - long story short - during my initial deep clean, I managed to launch my left extractor spring plunger pin across the room, never to be found again. :runaway: It was one of those "Oh... CRAP!" comical moments that I may be able to laugh about in years to come.

Am I doomed? Or is going in search of a machine shop to carve me another, using the right side one as a template, my only real option at this point?

I feel like such an idiot for letting it happen! Next time, I'm going to do the reassembly inside a giant ziplock bag so if it tries to go for another flight, it'll get caught...

TIA for any wisdom or suggestions!
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Did EXACTLY the same thing when cleaning my new JW 20 ,searched high and low for hours and never did find it.....I think it might have landed on a leather couch and disappeared down behind the cushion.Canada Ammo replaced it for me

Tip: when removing the spring,put a towel over the action so if it slips out of your fingers ,you don't lose it
 
pics ~= 1000 words....

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Thanks everyone!
 
That part is essentially a file job.

You can leave off the reduced diameter at the back end, that goes in to the spring, to no ill effect. Or you can chuck your stock up in a drill and file it or grind it with a Dremel tool or on a bench grinder (chuck the stock in a drill and spin it while grinding away what you don't need, faster to do than to type it out!).

Easiest source of material is a cheap drill bit shank. Black ones, not the shiny coated ones. But rally, even a chunk of a nail would work. Forget about heat treating.

A couple strokes of a file to taper the other end. Note that it only needs to contact the extractor off to one side, it can be a straight taper or you can copy the other one.

Easy job, likely to take longer to find your tools than to make it.

Oh yeah. Carpeted rooms suck, as you cannot hear the parts hit the floor. A strip if magnet from an old-school white-board rocks for finding stuff like that. BTDT. Far too many times! :)

Cheers
Trev
 
Longer version - screwdriver slipped while depressing the plunger so I could put the ejector back in.

Tick! spring hitting screwdriver.
Tap! the now flying plunger pin hitting a box on far side of table.
Thp. I heard it land.... but I'll be damned if I could make out a direction.

I'm working in my unfinished basement full of random boxes and things, and could be anywhere in a large radius around where I was sitting thanks to the ricochet...

Ah well. I still appreciate all the help and suggestions.
 
Check your clothes as well.... :)
I'm usually pretty good at the small part echo location thing but sometimes the small parts seem to slip into another dimension.
Usually a good excuse to clean up!
 
Vacuum the room with a new bag in the vacuum or clean out the shop vac and use it. I have found a fair number of lost parts that way. I now use a large clear garbage bag that I put my whole upper body in while working on the small spring loaded parts in the ziploc. Good ideas on the drill bit or nail for making a new part using a drill or drill press to rotate them. I just made a new part for one of my guns using that method and it works well.
 
Keep looking. If while looking you see a place and think "there's no way it could be there"
Look there.

I find parts in the craziest places. Best thing to do when they fly is freeze, look down anc listen.
 
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