Arghh!!! Help me find an M&P 9 take down lever please.

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BBQJOE

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I don't much want to talk about it. When field stripping my pistol the take down lever hit the ground and vanished. I even combed the area with a large magnet.

I'm having zero luck finding one online.

Anyone know where I might find one?

Thanks.

Joe
 
Brownell's carries it. Brownell's stock number 940-000-955AS (S&W part number 277610000). $5.61

Make sure you don't need the take down lever retaining wire, too. Stock number 940-000-956AS (S&W part number 277620000). $4.99

Phone 800-741-0015 You need to get a current catalog if you don't have one.
 
Brownell's carries it. Brownell's stock number 940-000-955AS (S&W part number 277610000). $5.61

Make sure you don't need the take down lever retaining wire, too. Stock number 940-000-956AS (S&W part number 277620000). $4.99

Phone 800-741-0015 You need to get a current catalog if you don't have one.

Of course you can call S&W, too. They might take pity and send one for free.
 
Thank you Mr Bill. I checked brownell's before I posted here, and I didn't get anything much to show.
I'll go right now and order.
Thanks a bunch!!!

I guess I was too descriptive in my search there.
Joe
 
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We never did find that little rascal.
It fell, hit my boot while standing still. I crawled on my hands and knees in the dirt and sand for an hour.
I then went and got a long magnet plus a rake, and worked a 50 sq ft area with my wife for 2 hours.

My whole week has been like this.
 
I did a similar thing and lost the retaining wire....right on my bench, in my shop. I used a magnet and spent a lot of time on my hands and knees to no avail. I finally just gave up, grabbed some spring stock and made me another one that has worked well ever since.
 
Lost part story:

I made a plunger for a S&W revolver. Took about 40 minutes to set up the lathe and only a few minutes to make it (per the diagram in some manual). Then while attempting to install it, it went airborne! I spent over 1 1/2 hours looking for it and found it on the other side of the classroom.

I should ask NASA for a job since I'm rather good at making things go orbital.

Lesson learned: somethings you put the object into a box. The box will trap the airborne part and make the recovery easier.
 
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Ha! Don't ya hate it?
I was installing the retaining ring on a piston wrist pin (small engine) when it went ping and flew.
Similar situation, hands and knees for hours with a magnet. Swept the floor and sifted through it to no avail.
I gave up, and moved on to another project.
Meanwhile my dog started drinking the water from my quench can under my welding station, so I decided to pour it out.
Guess what?
Yeah. Never in a million years could I do that again!
Thanks Murphy!
 
Lesson learned: somethings you put the object into a box. The box will trap the airborne part and make the recovery easier.
I did similar many times but used a clear plastic bag when trying to replace the tiny spring and plunger on S&W rear sights, when replacing the blades. They had to go flying at least once during the process.
 
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Well looky here!!!!
Riding our usual trails today, the wife happened to look down, and there it was, nowhere even close to where I had dropped it.
Either a pack rat found it, and was taking it home, or maybe it was caught up in my boot laces or something.

Either way, Yay!
 
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He he, I launched my wifes duty gun firing pin spring across the living room, with her watching in horror! I have same gun for duty and offered mine until I found it. It did not end up where I thought it would ricochet..... But I did find it after about 2 hours of searching. I blamed my cat, he's a little shifty.... LOL

Glad you found it!
 
There was a reason all this happened, and some day I might write a much longer story about it.
But the short of it is the good lord has made it very clear to me that I'm not to kill animals.

I was out riding around, and sighted a large coyote. For some reason, my immediate reaction was to plug him.
I drew, aimed, and pulled the trigger. The pistol failed to fire.
I tapped, racked, and pulled the trigger again, and the gun still failed to fire. The coyote then ran off.

Taking the gun apart and losing the pin for awhile was my "Time out".
There was absolutely no reason for me to shoot at this animal. In over 20 years living in the wilderness, I have never once had a problem with coyotes.
I was stopped from creating a war, and suffering untold amounts of bad karma.
 
BBQJOE, glad you found it!

Your thread has been hijacked as a "what stupid disassembly have you done" topic. So 3 short lessons & confessions:

1) Dont clean you gun at the range. I launched the blued steel guiderod of a pocket .380 into the pinestraw 20' away while trying to seat it in the assembled slide. Very lucky that in 5 minutes on my hands & knees, I found it.

2) listen to your dad. My 25 year old son & I were cleaning handguns on the back patio after a range trip. As he's disassembling his new 1911 (not his first time, but still learning the proceedures) I say, "be careful not to let the spring plunger..." BOINGGGG. Lucky for him we're sitting under the patio umbrella. It pops the fabric above and falls at his feet.

3) providence smiles on the careless, again. On a P64, somehow i cause the mag release lever spring to shift & it launches itself across the room. i crawl, peer under furniture w flashlight, comb through area rugs -- no luck. Fabricate a make-do replacement that looks like crap out of some small spring wire i find in the hardware odds & ends. Life goes on for a couple of weeks. Then at my work weeks later, i open my laptop case - the top flap secures with a magnetic catch rather than a snap - and there on the magnet is the errant spring. Its been riding there on a daily trip back & forth to work & home all that time.

And i still disassemble handguns in places where i know better!
 
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