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I was doing some work on a 1911 and while re-installing the safety, I let the plunger take off. It's in the darkest, most inaccessible recesses of the shop somewhere, but in the meantime .....

Who's got 'em! I want one and a spare. This is the first time I've lost one, but it might not be the last.
 
I feel your pain just happened to me, seached my gun room for three weeks before I broke down and orderd one from wolverine supply
 
Hahaha...lots of people have done this. Maybe try Brownells?

The way to avoid this sort of thing is to put a towel or something similar over your work. Then a spring can't go very far. Wait til you launch a recoil spring plug across a room...
 
The way to prevent this is to put a modest kink in the middle of the spring. This used to be normal but I have noticed that many clone manufacturers don't bother to do it.

Dr Jim
 
I prefer to launch my recoil spring straight up. It hits the ceiling and comes straight down. Fairly easy to find. LOL.
 
When I first took my GSG apart the plunger came flying out, I knew it was there I just didn't realize how much pressure it was under, anyways I was able to find it on the floor, below the hole it put in the drywall.
 
The kink in the spring doesn't stop the plunger flying away though. A towel or holding your hand to catch it as it comes out is still needed.
 
Try finding that little black half rounded plastic spring retainer from a Glock firing pin! Oi ve! I spent over an hour searching the entire room for it before giving up and was just about to order a replacement from Brownells when I found the stupid part in my cup of tea.

BCRider said:
The kink in the spring doesn't stop the plunger flying away though. A towel or holding your hand to catch it as it comes out is still needed.
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This is what I try and do whenever possible.
 
Seems I'm not the only one to have a part under spring tension go - "Sproing!" and into the void ..... ;>)

Got a couple of replacement safety plunger assemblies coming from John at Wolverine.
 
Tengoo said:
Hahaha...lots of people have done this. Maybe try Brownells?

The way to avoid this sort of thing is to put a towel or something similar over your work. Then a spring can't go very far. Wait til you launch a recoil spring plug across a room...
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Better than a towel, work inside a clear Ziplock bag.
 
Well, Mr. Murphy's Law has manifested itself yet again .... now that I've ordered replacement parts.

I got on my hands and knees with a Maglite flashlight, moved everything that could be moved and just when I was about to quit - there it was! On the opposite side of the shop to where logic says it ought to have been.
Must have been one of those "Ping-Pong" ricochets like a Road Runner cartoon. Oh well, I'm ready for the next time .....
 
I nearly lost mine out of my GSG about a week ago, I heard it fly out and bounce off the wall and I figured I'd lost the plunger and the spring, turns out the spring never even came out, and after searching behind my desk for over an hour, I gave up and sat down at my desk... and I see it staring right at me, all the tension it was under and it flew all of 3 feet

got lucky, I guess
 
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