Launching Detent Pins Across the Room- A Personal Best

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Taking a safe queen to parts to build something that I can use and trying to put a pivot pin detent and spring into the new build. So far I have managed to launch six of the little detent pins across the work space into the land of missing socks.
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So what is your personal best?

Does anyone carry KNS Precision in Canada for their push-button pivot and take down pins?
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Go buy one of these. Best money you'll ever spend.

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I've had great luck with one of those magnetic parts trays, wave it over the ground in my workshop like a magic wand to retrieve every bit of metal under benches and in dark areas
 
My personal best was trying to clean and lube a Remington bolt the night before a match. In a few milliseconds, the extractor slid too far out and the tiny detent ball launched towards the geostationary orbit. It soon collided with the garage ceiling, however, and then ricocheted into storage shelves full of of skis and ancient paint cans. No ball, no extractor, no bolt, no match.

On the positive side, the garage is a closed system with finite number of objects. I figured the volume integral of the probability density function for the ball was close to 1, and resolved to find the sucker. It only took a couple of hours, give or take.
 
Ha - recently attempted to install a stronger main spring into a Remington 783. It was stronger all right - I could not press it in far enough with my fingers to turn the cocking piece the 90 degrees to lock it in place. Used a hand-held squeeze grip - got squeezed far enough - than tried to turn cocking piece - everything launched - in my son's work space in his garage - we did find the cocking piece and the firing pin, but that coil spring found a good hideout. Was good thing that I had brought extras, so the rifle is back in action, with coil spring replacement #1 snuggled up inside or beside something random.
 
I sent the extractor pin for my buckmark flying last month.
I did what I normally do in such a situation, immediately order a new one before I start looking and sure enough found it after half an hour. If I don't order the replacement its gone till I do. Maybe I will open a spare parts store some day.
 
Sleeper - order something then find it - it becomes like an old-guy thing - have a good piece of something for years - length of heater hose, a coil spring, etc. - never used it, but tripped over it most weeks. Finally toss it. Then, without fail, a day later I will need a piece of what i just threw out - off to store to buy a new one, to replace the one that was here, unused, for years!!! Or, looking for something else and find a part that is identical to the one that you bought the day before - forgot that I had one - may as well chuck it - did not know I had one anyways. Why we keep building lean-to's and new sheds for all the "good stuff" that we are really hesitant to toss...
 
Regulate said:
I've had great luck with one of those magnetic parts trays, wave it over the ground in my workshop like a magic wand to retrieve every bit of metal under benches and in dark areas
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Lost the first two or three working at a friends shop.
They are somewhere in a half inch of metal shavings on the floor.
 
My personal best was accomplished when trying to reassemble a SVT-40... Launched that spring right across the room, out the door and down the stairs!

Yes, the clear garbage bag is a good foil!
 
Most of the times I lose a spring I end up looking forever then just randomly stumble upon it. Doing a trigger job I launched a hammer spring and it landed among my kids' toy graveyard. On my hands and knees for an hour flipping toys and dumping bins. Gave up and assembled the gun and put it away. Walking through my basement one day it's sitting in the middle of the rug right in the open. I never ended putting it back in. It sits on my handgun shelf in the safe as a reminder to always use the clear plastic bag instead of thinking I'm competent enough to just rush it.
 
When you don't hear the ping as it hits the floor, than you know you are in trouble, Looked for a little spring, for a while, Made a new one, worked great.
Pulled out a tissue from my shirt pocket and a click on the floor, there it was.
 
I lost one but had a spare as I'm not a watch maker, I knew at least one would escape.

The most disheartening moment was my bolt guns extractor flying right into my extensive range brass collection. I watched it fly right into the middle, rather than start hunting I went to see how much it would be to replace. 783 Remington extractors aren't readily available as far as I can tell, so back to the brass, grabbed the first four coffee cans to start sifting, and there it was on the floor...it's gone into a bag since.
 
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