Don't work on your sidearms in your living room unless your attic coffee table

bogusiii said:
Frustrating as you know it's there somewhere. Like, how can it not be and if you go over every square inch it has to turn up, right?
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Yup, I've swept the whole living room and lifted and shook the chair and couch, my only reasonable conclusion my dog ate it, or I did hahaha, Imma go cry and crawl around again
 
Coachgun67 said:
In order not to have flying bits in the first place, disassemble critical or spring loaded parts in a big clear plastic bag...you see what you're doing and you never loose tiny springs and stuff. Same for reassembly.
Takes a bit to get used to it, tho.CG
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My wife taught me this one, after I spent what seemed like hours on my hands and knees in the work shop with a flashlight looking for the spring and plunger of a 1911 safety.

More recently, I was disassembling the Norinco 'Sport' 1911 of a young friend and launched the recoil spring plunger. I heard it hit the wall above the bench and that was it. I figured it ricocheted to land on something soft, so again, I went on the hunt .....

Hours later, in desperation I got on a stool and looked where I had heard it hit the wall and found it on a 2x4 supporting the electrical panel.
 
Take another spring and throw it off the table, then follow it to find out where the first spring is hiding.
 
Ganderite said:
I have head the dreaded "Ping!" as a piece gets launched. In the last month I lost a pin form a PPSH41 and a rod guide cap from a 1911 with a FL guide rod.

I have ordered new parts.
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I've had that happen, I had a pimple once, squeezed it, and out popped a spring, I'm like wtf haha, and another time, well 4 times my bedroom window went bye bye haha
 
Pool table, ha, I like that idea------and use a white sheet as well.
Brownells usually has a good selection of small bits & pieces.
And when you order, don't just order one!!!
 
One way I've found parts....a REALLY bright LED flashlight with a tight beam, Lay it parallel on the ground and you'll be surprised how many things you find. Works on berber carpet too, not shag.

I also disassemble guns inside a really big freezer bag on the table, not sure where I got that idea, read it somewhere. I've had the best luck ordering through Brownells for teeny parts like that, or even through the manufacturer.
 
Taking off an Fn-FAL buttstock, I know that the springs are going to go flying along with the retaining bolt, I mean I KNOW BETTER!!!!

Sure enough despite being prepared and taking extra care BOING!! there goes all the parts. Springs are long so no problem finding them, the bolt is large so shouldn't be a problem.
An hour later I can only shake my head, impossible for it to have disappeared. Ordered a new bolt along with the proper disassembly tool.

Two years later my wife is cleaning a small shelf in the garage and asks me if "this weird bolt" is mine.
It was sitting on a shelf just above eye level that I am 100% sure that I completely emptied looking for it.

The only explanation I can think of is that it was on a rafter and eventually fell off. Or the gun gods were laughing and playing games with me.
 
Sometimes it goes the other way. I was in a vehicle that has a couple of belt feds in the turret. Bump bump and a steel stud drops down from 'up there'. Having some knowledge of the makeup of the belt feds and the turret there are only so many places it could have come from and was large enough you think you'd see the hole it dropped out of or, failing that, something wouldn't work. But no, just a nicely machined spare part of no known origin.

Taking it further, have you ever fixed a home appliance and not had leftovers?
 
All the pieces go back in, the trouble starts when you are one little piece short that you know was put in " that tray"
I lost a sten mag for 5 yrs one time , until I changes the Florence lights .
What I really hate is when putting things back together, and you hear a bit bounce off the ceiling, than a wall.
Sometime a magnet floor sweeper works, maybe, if it is not iron , good luck.
Another point to keep in mind with all this home isolation going on, Never , ever let the wife "tidy" the shop up.
Took months to mess it up so I knew where all the stuff was.
bogusiii said:
Sometimes it goes the other way. I was in a vehicle that has a couple of belt feds in the turret. Bump bump and a steel stud drops down from 'up there'. Having some knowledge of the makeup of the belt feds and the turret there are only so many places it could have come from and was large enough you think you'd see the hole it dropped out of or, failing that, something wouldn't work. But no, just a nicely machined spare part of no known origin.

Taking it further, have you ever fixed a home appliance and not had leftovers?
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vacuum and nylons or sheer panties. And I don't mean wear them, I mean put over the the nozzle of the vacuum and run it around the room while turned on, the vacuum, not you. small parts will be found on the surface of the lingerie (not even going there for that one).
 
Slavex said:
vacuum and nylons or sheer panties. And I don't mean wear them, I mean put over the the nozzle of the vacuum and run it around the room while turned on, the vacuum, not you. small parts will be found on the surface of the lingerie (not even going there for that one).
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Oh my God this is so good I can't stop laughing and yes I understand what you mean and yes there are few out there that would figure running around with pantyhose at full mast vacuuming lol, I swept up today I'm going to have to vacuum I guess I don't understand how it got out of the case, I had it one second and it was in the case that it disappeared I might have to tear the case apart take all the foam out
Here's a link to a picture of what the Sig case looks like, closed cell foam.

https://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/prod/CASE-12
 
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