BOOOOINNNNG, Damn it!!

[Canada1812]

The charging handle off a XCR.... and the tiny safety detent spring on a CZ shadow. At least the Charging handle knob and spring are quite big and easy to find, but it really launched itself across the garage.

 

[Northern Amateur]

It's the dreaded three wall (or ceiling) pings that are usually lost forever.

One pings are usually recovered

Two pings are a challenge

Three pings... forget it.

I have a magnetic wand for just these situations LOL.

Ya ain't alone Bro

M

Strike three and you're out!

Sportsman 22 little spring in the hand grip GONE!

Ruger MK1 exploded!

S&W 586 trigger assembly lost but found!

1911 even though I new it was coming sprooing!

The worst ever was a 30-06 Rem 742 semi auto was one of the worst violent mechanical explosion that I have had my face that close!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope
Nope
Been there
Oh Yeah
Yikes!

LMAO

I know that feeling. You don't wanna take it apart because it hasn't been to the range yet and you remember last time you learned you damn lesson. Yet curiosity gets to the cat can't keep your paws from foundling the new gadget. Then comes the split second after the boing where your frantically scanning the air and listening for the crack, if your lucky you can see the bounce from the corner of your eye. Most likely you hear a crack and roll yet still spend the next hour on your hands and knees.

I still haven't graduated to revolvers or levers though. Your on the next level. I stick my tail between my legs after the base plate and hammer is out.

I even tried to convince myself not to toy with it before, well you know, toy with it!

Ditto! 1911, tt33 and one spring from a Winnie 1907 Nearly took my head off.

1911 can be fun. Especially when they don't have a full guide rod.

Yup, learned to start doing it like this the hard way.

Still haven't learned that lesson. Working on it though!

I thought I was the only one that heard the dreaded Sproing.

A couple parts are gone, never to be seen again.

Like missing socks in the dryer. Where are they??

Ohhhh bouy.............thank kripes furr les majic chappeau noire.....................

or scotch.

I keep coffee cans of nuts, bolts, washers and misc hardware under my work bench. How many times have I had to dig through multiple cans looking for a sproinggggg part ?

Be nice if the parts landed in the can wouldn't it?

Story of my life! I R mechanic, I’ve spent far too much of my life searching for that one bolt, or tool, or spring. Don’t forget to search high when searching high and low.

That's where I heard it hit, high. Perhaps in a move a few years from I may find it.

Last week, a couple of tiny parts went away without any sound as I was bent over plumber-fashioned as I tinkered. The plunger was found without delay, but only after being sure that there were no witnesses and some investigation was I to discover that the tiny spring had gone right down the chimney.

That one was good for morning chuckle.

I took apart an M14 bolt once. I think the bolt ejector head entered orbit.

Learning is hard sometimes.

I hate those tough little ba$tards. Cut a coil off mine (M305) and it's much easier to get back in.

Keep up the good work.... I'm in the next county and have almost enough parts to build a new gun!

I have a few choice words for you sir. Then again, finders keepers I guess. Congrats!!

Lol. You pansies. Try working on S&W 41’s. Or Buckmarks. Parts held in by grip panels, blocks inder spring tension with sprung parts in them (sw extractors and pin and plungers). One ping and you are well and truly cooked.

Thankfully I can build new and better parts for the 41 that fixes ammo pickyness, so if I lose one or 2 its not the end of the world. But I like to save them to examine the surfaces that make the gun picky in the first place. So if they do fkoff I know WHAT part is not happy.

Pfffft, anyone can lose parts like that. Try losing those easy ones. Cheers!

Butt I must admit, "dammitt" t'ain't dem werds that s'capes frum me lipzs..............................

You got that right. My boy had another lesson in colourful metaphors.

The charging handle off a XCR.... and the tiny safety detent spring on a CZ shadow. At least the Charging handle knob and spring are quite big and easy to find, but it really launched itself across the garage.

I can't even imagine working on this stuff in the garage where I live. WAY too many libtards. I am genuinely jealous sir.

 

[mastermind]

I usually find the springs, but those damn detent balls are another story! Lost one from a Marlin cross-bolt safety once.. now I have 99 extras...

 

[Got Juice?]

@Northern Amateur. Hahahaha. Easy ones. M’head just kersploded laughing...

 

[NAA]

Lost tiny springs.... my story....

Way back in the day I was switching out the ambi mag release on a Ruger P90 .45ACP pistol [I'm a leftie].

You guessed it, the spring went sproing & was [temporarily] lost. The flooring in the room where I was doing this was variegated carpet. Hands & knees & even going over carpet with magnet there was no success. So, ordered a new part from Ruger. It came in the mail, eventually, replaced it & all was good with the pistol.

Much later, was doing some reloading in said room. Dropped a piece of brass on carpet, bent down to pick it up & what was seen right next to it? Yup, that errant little spring from weeks before!!

You can't make this stuff up!!

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NAA.

 

[Northern Amateur]

Way back in the day I was switching out the ambi mag release on a Ruger P90 .45ACP pistol [I'm a leftie].

You guessed it, the spring went sproing & was [temporarily] lost. The flooring in the room where I was doing this was variegated carpet. Hands & knees & even going over carpet with magnet there was no success. So, ordered a new part from Ruger. It came in the mail, eventually, replaced it & all was good with the pistol.

Much later, was doing some reloading in said room. Dropped a piece of brass on carpet, bent down to pick it up & what was seen right next to it? Yup, that errant little spring from weeks before!!

You can't make this stuff up!!

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NAA.

Love it when that happens!

 

[kamlooky]

Jawgged ah memory frum awn'ear.
Guy drawpt a goodie.
Couldn't find it.
Looked, looked, looky summore.
Check yer tread awn yer shewzs, types I.
Fruck, I wuzz a hero furr a bit.

Always always check yer pieds.

 

[MiniMe]

I've had a few parts ejected during disassembly that are now lost in another dimension.

 

[lvlagnum]

You haven't experienced the best "BOIIINNNGGG" until you've heard it in concert. Many moons ago, I was a small arms instructor in the Canadian Army. Young recruits are well known for being awkward and fumbly. Sort of like newborn fawns taking their first steps. They are young and eager but no matter how well you try to teach them, they don't always know exactly what to do and exactly when to do it. For their own safety, you have to supervise them closely. It's amazing how high the but cap of a C1 Submachine gun can fly when you almost have it latched on buuuuut.....

The aftermath is like an Easter egg hunt for adults. hehehe

 

[OkayShooter]

Been there too. There is a mark on the wall in the kitchen from my first 1911's recoil spring plug, lol.

Yeah I launched 1911 ones a few times.

 

[BeaverMeat]

 

[olivedrab]

I'll take one, please and thanks!

 

[turbo_bird]

I had an SKS given to me that would sometimes disassemble itself while shooting. One time the gas tube and piston came off, they landed about 70' behind me. It took us a while to find them, there was about 2' of snow on the ground. Safety detent balls are the worst though. I though the one from my Ruger MKII was gone forever, so I started trying to make a new one. I dropped that one, and came back up with the original. No idea where the half finished replacement went, and I've never needed it either. The first time I disassembled a TT33 I got to see how far the recoil spring flies. I was at the kitchen table, and my wife sitting in the living room wasn't real impressed.
Kristian

 

[highlander]

Those are what I refer to as "religious" parts; as soon as they are freed they fly straight to Jesus.

 

[WJA]

Done it a few times.
S&W M&P 22 ejector spring with that metal attached pin. Twenty minutes to find.
Winchester pre-64, 94 tube magazine follower.
Took 2 hours to find it in a messy garage full of stuff. At one point I even gave up to check online for an original replacement only to realize that I better find it or I might be SOL.

 

[baldabe]

Sproinged the main hammer spring plug off a stainless CZ75. Looked high and low, couldnt find it. Ordered a blued one eventually coz no-one had a stainless one.
2 years later found it while renovating the basement behind the vapour barrier lodged in the pink insulation.
Finally.......Stainless plug back where it belongs.

 

[bat119]

I use a magnetic sign on my bench to prevent balls and small parts from rolling off