Still no gunsmith but I am darned persistant

I found the freaking plunger!!!! It was not in the last place I looked or not really. I had looked there numerous times, just didn't see the thing hiding.

I knew it hit me in the chest and fell into my lap but from there I lost sight of it.
Never made it to the floor so all the crawling around with light and magnet was for naught.

It had gotten caught, just barely in between the seat cushion and the arm rest on the chair and we had almost pulled the seat out digging around in it but it was in a slight hole(?) at the very front of the cushion/arm rest. I walked in last night and looked again and could see it barely just laying there.

The chair had be sat in, turned every which way even upside down but it managed to stay right there until I barely touched it to pick it out and then it fell on through the hole onto the floor.

The gun is back together just one day before the two I ordered from Midway are to arrive so when I take it apart again, (and I will because the trigger is still at least 1 pound too heavy for my taste)
I'll have a couple of backups.

Thanks to everyone for the support.

 

My lost parts usually don't resurface until I buy replacements in an offering to the gods of missing things.

 

Sometimes, when I'm crawling on the floor with a flashlight in my teeth for an hour, sweating, and swearing, and back pain, and frustration, I start to wonder: "Does human sacrifice to please the gods is such a bad idea after all?"

 

When I find something in the last place I look, I keep looking for a while because I just might find something else I dropped.

 

it's amazing how things can go flying. i have lossed small gun parts, its bound to happen. i lost a large punch one time drifting a broken kingpin wedge, the thing when up into the insolation in the shop sealing. about a year later after getting my new snap-on box, the punch feel gout and landed on the drawer latch. nice little dent in a new $7800 box.

 

First law of gunsmithing is anytime a pin goes flying you will tear your shop apart looking for it and never find it, order a new one (plus spares), finish the gun repair and return it to the customer - and then find the pin in the very back of a tool chest drawer under a pair of pliers. Don't ask how I know this.

 

Try disassembling an Astra 400 or 600. One slip up and the biggest, strongest recoil spring in the entire pistol world will propel the barrel bushing with enough force to drop a charging bull elephant.