Ruger New Model Pawl Spring Launcher Association.

BUMMER! Good luck on the hunt!

...Flew across room into the carpet.

I looked & looked & looked... On hands & knees. Rub the carpet one way & then the other... Could not find it. Called a few of the local gun shops & found one for sale. Drove across town, picked it up & returned home. When I opened the front door, the sunlight hit the carpet just right & illuminated the original missing spring. Now I had two!

That was back in the mid-80's when Southern California still had gun shops & working gun smiths.

~JM~

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Said spring is .275 OAL with an outside diameter of .047.

I just happened to have it out of the gun while standing outside when it took flight. Odds of finding it are about like the proverbial needle in a hay stack.

I owned that Gold Cup for about two months. After waiting for a new spring from Colt, I promptly gave it a good trading off with a solemn vow to never own another 1911 with that particular sear design. I've kept that vow.

Murphy

But I cannot even recall how many small gun springs have flown across the room on me. Have fortunately found most of them, but have also spent a fair amount of money buying replacements from various supply houses. When tearing apart a firearm now, try to do it with a clean bench top, in a room with clean floors and no shag carpet. Have also learned a few tricks to contain difficult springs so it happens less often now.

I have a series 70 gold cup and I have never taken it apart that far. The trigger pull is great but it isn't much of a shooter. I keep saying I a man going to have a new barrel fit.

if you can still get 'em.

The floor under my workbench is so dirty little things usually don't roll very far when I drop them. A small powerful flashlight will then usually locate the dust bunny with a shiny thing in it.

these all remind me of Jeff "Tank" Hoover's on line article about losing stuff under his reloading bench. I think he found the origin of a species down there.

in flight.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Luckily I was up early on a Saturday morning and the cabin was quiet.
I took the trigger group out and when the hand rolled forward and the sring went zinging past my face. I heard it hit the wall, then 3-4 light bounces on the hardwood floor.
You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find a little spring with all that bare floor. It finally was found by flashlight and there it was hiding up against the couch leg.

Disasembling a gun inside a gallon ziplock bag works well.

What spring did we drop at your kitchen table? Or was that a small screw?

Was that from your 480? A screw from the rear sight? You did find it though if I remember, darn lucky too with the dust bunnies under the dining room table.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Tell your wife you lost a Very Expensive Spring.

She WILL find it.

but I do remember spending a large amount of time looking for a small spring that I had allowed to take flight. Found it in my beard.

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Recovered the spring but the saddle entered some other dimension. Also, the slide stop spring on a friend's FEG PA-63. Had to learn to bend music wire for that one.

A 1-gallon Zip-Loc is at hand near the bench these days.

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https://americanhandgunner.com/dead-crickets-and-centipede-hulls/

Enjoyable.

And a bit too close to home, if you know what I mean....

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Sometimes called a jesus spring. (or more accurately... ("JESUS!" spring")

Like most people, I lost the first one because I didn't even know it was in there. It's an extra kick in the ass when you have to go look something up (pre internet) to find out what it was you just lost.