A handy tip for disassembly

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Papaclaude

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Hey all,

This morning, I was fooling around with a .22 bolt, and I resorted to a little trick I learned many moons ago. If you've ever heard that Godawful Ping! sound followed by clink, clink, clink, resulting in a frantic hunt for a part or parts unknown, this is for you. Whenever I have to take a bolt apart (or anything with springs in it), I use a fairly open mesh bag (an onion bag is great) that you can easily see in, open a hole in it at either end to put your hands in and go to town. If something goes flying, it will stay inside the bag. Could also keep said object from poking you in the eye.
 
Good system! I've done that on occasion, but then forget and lose a piece again :p Those clear heavy plastic bags that welding masks and other safety equipment comes in are good as well - hang one above your bench so it's always handy - I find if something like that isn't within arm's reach I don't use it, then end up crawling around on the floor with a headlamp :p
 
Do that with a bag, but set a magnetic tray under the bag as you work and you have better odds of small pieces (if they are steel) to stick to the bottom of the bag if they try to exit.
 
If you have never seen how "hard" a compressed 12 gauge magazine spring can propel a wooden plug it's entertaining... Many, many years ago I watched (Barotto Sports 1971 - Otto - one of my bosses at the time) fiddling with an 870 with the barrel off...on the padded store counter... I am not quite sure what he was attempting but suddenly the magazine spring retainer popped out of the tube with the wooden plug and spring freely flying across the width of the store hitting the middle of a huge glass window and breaking it... and exclamation immediately followed and a couple of us rushed for another room with huge grins on our faces and trying not to laugh. Otto was not amused.
 
I prefer to let the pieces fall and/or bounce where they may. Then I spend an hour or more crawling around on the floor looking for the lost part(s), while at the same time using my outside voice, and practising my store of special word combinations reserved for just such occassions. The Mrs. loves it ... not!
 
guntech said:
If you have never seen how "hard" a compressed 12 gauge magazine spring can propel a wooden plug it's entertaining... Many, many years ago I watched (Barotto Sports 1971 - Otto - one of my bosses at the time) fiddling with an 870 with the barrel off...on the padded store counter... I am not quite sure what he was attempting but suddenly the magazine spring retainer popped out of the tube with the wooden plug and spring freely flying across the width of the store hitting the middle of a huge glass window and breaking it... and exclamation immediately followed and a couple of us rushed for another room with huge grins on our faces and trying not to laugh. Otto was not amused.
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Yes ... somewhere beside a very beautiful stream not far from a waterfall, north east of Bruce Mines (ON) .. there is a wooden magazine plug from a Remington 1100 I launched skyward at a great rate of knots .. I did manage to grab the spring mid journey though and used a modified plastic tent peg to keep me legal for the balance of the week. I also was adopted by a very lonely - and large - GSP dog that had been left/lost by his owner. He slept with me in my tent for 4 days before I brought him back to Toronto and managed to connect with his owner. The little waterproof plastic barrel on his collar with contact details inside helped arrange the reunion.

Just remembered - I also called Remington (US) to see about getting the parts (a cap, plug and also a spare spring in case I lost it as well the next time I pulled that stunt) ... and they sent them all to me FREE/Gratis/No Charge. Remington have always done right by me.
 
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