Name your guns in pieces in boxes and baggies

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Mine was a Radom P35, but I finally found some good repro grip screws from .... geez now I’m drawing a blank... Art ?somethinaruther.
Jack First! Excellent copies. Now she’s complete!
I never care for that limbo where it’s not quite ready
 
I have two Garands in pieces. I bought two NOS barrels from CMP so over the next few years I accumulated the rest of the parts and tools.

If I remember correctly, the barrels were made in 1948 or 1949.

One of these days I'll get to them.
 
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BigBlue 94 said:
Not in pieces, but i have a couple old Colt DAs needing lock work. They are definitely not safe to shoot.

Now if we are talking vehicles... Thats a whole 'nother story.
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Yeah, I keep finding bags of car parts for cars I don't own anymore ....it's fun to find something and go...well, I know WHERE it goes in a car, just no idea which one it goes in....
 
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Yeah, I keep finding bags of car parts for cars I don't own anymore ....it's fun to find something and go...well, I know WHERE it goes in a car, just no idea which one it goes in....
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Ha, luckily I primarily own 78-96 ford trucks and dont sell often. But I also have a quartet of spare ZF5 transmissions... And a trio of D60 front axles.

Kinda like my guns lol. Ive sold exactly 3 guns in my life, a duplicate 870 .410, a hi-point 9mm, and my G17 (to fund my G20)
 
I have an S&W Model 64, a K-Frame revolver, in pieces, in a box. I tried to swap the original hammer for a factory spur-less DAO hammer, originally made for NYPD-spec revolvers, but found that it was not a drop-in fit. When I tried to get the weapon reassembled with its original parts, I found that my aging hands are not as nimble as they used to me. There is a tool that makes it easier to re-install the rebound slide and spring, which I may well have to order.
 
I have my Remington Nylon 66 .22cal from when I was a kid. It needs a little restoring, or I may piece it out. It is still intact and not in pieces at the moment. I actually thought I sold it before I moved 6 years ago, but just found it in the back of my closet. I was very happy to discover I still own it.
 
Currently in pieces, Colt New Line 22. The frame is trashed and I don’t know what I want to do with the gun. It’s a legit 1870s gun but it’s also beyond repair.
 
Apart means things can get lost.
If I take something down to fix, will assemble without the problem to keep everything together til part arrives.
Even when I had a basement w big well lit workbench............never left stuff apart.

Am a little OCD and try to keep organized.

Also dislike clutter.
 
A click-clack my son brought to me to fix many years ago. Maybe I'll get to it someday. The main body of the rifle stands in one of my safes, the guts are in a baggie on top. Several parts are missing.

My mom threw away an Iver Johnson Sealed 8 that her dad had given mine as a wedding present, after I took it apart when I was ten. I put it in a baggie for future reassembly and put it in a drawer by the gun bench. She was cleaning, found the bag in the drawer, and tossed it.
 
Did stuff when worked at a shop.
Quite a few guns brought in bags (one was in an evidence bag- together- story for another time LOL).
Got one all done and had an extra pin.
Tore it apart 3 times...........could not find place for that little pin.

Owner shows up, told him I can't figure it out.
He laughed, said it proly a spare pin as he just scooped stuff off his bench.

He was nice, but goofy. always took his stuff part, to every detent and spring.
I had to put em back together more than once.

A bud is like that, new gun? total disassembly.
Had to do his Ruger MK target shooting team rig. That takes a spare hand.
 
Hookeye said:
Apart means things can get lost.
If I take something down to fix, will assemble without the problem to keep everything together til part arrives.
Even when I had a basement w big well lit workbench............never left stuff apart.

Am a little OCD and try to keep organized.

Also dislike clutter.
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The gun in the box is on it's fifth disassembly / reassembly. By now I can identify every part by sight. The littlest parts are now safely in baggies in the box while we're waiting.

The first time I disassemble a gun I take before and after photos at each step of every part next to where it came from. Screws, small springs and pins get taped to an index card and identified and which direction they came out for the pins.

Subsequent disassemblies: just throw it in a box or in a dish, so it doesn't roll off the table.

Regardless, each disassembly / reassembly is an opportunity for something to get lost or marred, so I don't think I can agree with Hookeye's philosophy, because it doubles the number of these operations. The fewer the better and if I have to wait, I'd rather wait with the parts unassembled and safely retained in boxes and baggies.
 
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A few years ago I bought an Astra Constable that was missing a few parts. I actually had it in a shoe box. Then I bought another Astra Constable so I could use the first Astra as spare parts. Then I got the missing parts for the first Astra Constable and got it working fine. Then I realized that I had no spare parts for two weapons that were going to be hard to support without those spare parts. So, I bought a 3rd Astra for spare parts.

Then I realized I was acting crazy and decided to stop at 3 Astra Constables after I toyed with the idea of buying a 4th. Yikes. All of this for a gun that is an out of production Spanish PPK clone that is interesting but has no real qualities that necessitates owning 2,3 or 4 of them. This hobby can make you act unhinged every now and then. :)
 
P-38 is together now, but was in a cigar box from 1945 until I got it from my BIL about 1995. All it needed was a takedown detent, which I made from AR parts. All matching with 2 mags and a cut up Luger holster.
No current bag ladies.
 
Baggies, boxes, drawers... I like the cheap magnetic hardware bowls harbor freight sells. Once I get my gun apart, I can stick the whole thing to the side of the safe and not worry about it. Even upside down usually isn’t a problem.
 
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