Accidently Destroyed ww2 history

[oc16]

So I took my buddy’s out to the range and brought my trusty p38, once I got home I started cleaning my a few of my guns I took out. I left the mag on a table and forgot about it until now (4 days 2 of which rained). When I recovered my mag it had turned into a patchy orange color so I ran dipped it in soda and started scrubbing the hell out of it and saved about 97% of the mag. When I opened the mag in my kitchen the spring flew out and I lost the small magazine retainer pin somewhere in my kitchen, now I am pissed because I damaged my ww2 magazine and the pin is missing I used a pro mag retainer but it’s not working and is not the same. I still can’t find the dam retainer I know its just a mag but its still a survivor.

[SonofWWIIDI]

Rare earth magnet on a stick to find the lost spring.

[SkyHawk]

You are not the first and wont be the last. But you will probably find it (the floorplate retainer)

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=313772

Looking for the magazine floorplate retainer. My original for my real P38 magazine was launched across the garage. Of course this could be an excuse/reason to clean the garage but hey, it's Father's Day!
It would be Item 53 below.

If you don't find it, you can get two of them for $4 right here - original German Walther surplus. It says P1 - should be the exact same part for P38 mags too.

I have ordered from these guys, they are super legit.
http://www.keepshooting.com/walther-...oor-plate.html

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Not nearly as bad as launching a 1911 recoil spring plug into your face, ricocheting off behind a bunch of clutter and boxes in the garage.

[Red-Osier]

I bet it is hanging out with all the lost socks that disappear.

[dreyna14]

A big magnet will find that pin.

[Bainter1212]

Not nearly as bad as launching a 1911 recoil spring plug into your face, ricocheting off behind a bunch of clutter and boxes in the garage.

Been there haha. Not cool at all. The wife hears me cursing and knows to steer clear of the garage for awhile.

[Wordupmybrotha]

Hate it when that happens. The bugger could be under the stove or the fridge or the last place you'd think it would be.

[smle-man]

Not nearly as bad as launching a 1911 recoil spring plug into your face, ricocheting off behind a bunch of clutter and boxes in the garage.

I did that too once! I never did find it. Now that the kids are just about all gone I claimed one of the empty bedrooms as my gun room so when I lose tiny parts and pieces they don't have as many creative places to hide.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Been there haha. Not cool at all. The wife hears me cursing and knows to steer clear of the garage for awhile.

I can deal with personal bonehead stuff like that if I recover the parts and complete the job, but I recall being inconsolably pissed at myself for losing the extractor retaining pin from an SKS. A nice solid whack and it pops out and goes flying. Too small to make a distinct sound where it lands and so tiny that finding it in my cluttered garage is impossible.

End result: A rifle I planned to take to the desert that weekend is bricked and the shipping for the replacement part is 3X the cost of the actual part. Idiot.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

If you want some REAL fun, try field stripping an M1 carbine bolt and reassembling it without the bolt tool. Some of the little parts are about the size of a grain of sand.

[asm777]

If you have any hanging light fixtures, take a peak inside... just recently found a long lost "projectile" that had somehow landed inside...

[JohnBrian]

Not nearly as bad as launching a 1911 recoil spring plug into your face, ricocheting off behind a bunch of clutter and boxes in the garage.

I wear safety glasses nowadays since a near miss on my right eye a few years ago while assembling something-or-another.

[jtv3062]

I now place firearms parts that has small springs into a freezer bags before taking them apart.

[Thrashard340]

Could've been worse...at least it wasn't the P38 left out in the rain.