A moment of panic w/ my SP101...

[TonyB]

Went to the range yesterday and shot my SP a whole bunch.....got home and decided to take it apart and clean inside and free up the cylinder alittle.....it's east enough to take the trigger group out and all..but as I was taking it apart.....BOING..a spring goes flying.....after a search and much sweating I find it......now I go look for the manual to find out where this spring goes....I'm no engineer so the sceematics are like greek.....after staring at the trigger group for 30 minutes I finally see where it goes( think it was the trigger return spring)....anyway I clean everything up and put some Breakfree in there....freed up the cylinder beautifully.......then the moment of truth......I re-assemble everything........it actually works!!!!!I was like a nut.....the whole time I'm thinking...this is why you need 2 carry guns,cause I'm an idiot and get in over my head,I'll have to run it up to the gunsmith to put it back together,blah,blah ,blah.......and after all the panic everything went great.........Ruger rule for simplicity...alls well that ends well,and now I have more confidence in taking the thing apart and detailing it once in a while...maybe I'm more eginerr-like after all.......next ....take apart the Glock17..........and get a Valium

 

[Brian Williams]

I did a field strip of a 1911 and the recoil spring plug did a escape act in the truck and took out the winshield. Found the plug under the seat later.

 

[Kestrel]

Tony,

What do you mean by "free up the cylinder"? Was it binding or stuck?

Steve

 

[Kamicosmos]

The main spring, no problem! Swapped that a few times now. Disassembling the trigger group to replace the return spring....I shyed away from that.

Rugers are very easy to disassemble, at least the SP/GP series. The Mark IIs are a bit more complex, and very tight when new. (Last night, mine gave me a reintroduction to thier quirkiness by having it's safety get activated somehow...could not get the damn thing back together!)
The Redhawk is a bit trickier on the springs, but still, not bad.

 

[TonyB]

Steve..the cylinder was a little "draggy"...a little gummed up w/ gunk...I just took the cylinder off the"axle" and cleaned and lubed it....now the cylinder spins for a good 10 seconds.....make scense??It lightened up the trigger too.....

 

[who me]

It always takes me 4 or 5 times to back the trigger group on my SP. :banghead: but on my 22/45 I can get it back together the first time.

 

[BlkHawk73]

Mine isn't bad to reassemble at all. I've been there when the dreaded SPROING occured. Ttime sorta freezes when you realize what just occured.

 

[sgt127]

So, I'm not the only one who has crawled around the kitchen with a magnet for an hour? My favorite part is from the time it gets away from you, listening for the little "tink" so you have some idea where in the hell to start looking. That is a magical few seconds.

 

[Sven]

I did a field strip of a 1911 and the recoil spring plug did a escape act in the truck and took out the winshield.

I did that in front of a smith in his garage, and narrowly missed a flourescent light above us. He just laughed and found the spring. Lesson learned!

 

[mountainclmbr]

That SPROINK sound happens in an OhNoSecond!

 

[Standing Wolf]

Ruger has a special engineering sub-department known as the "Customer Entertainment Center."

 

[James Bondrock]

I once lost the slide stop out of a Kahr pistol. This part is fitted quite tightly and needs a little tap with something to pop it out of the frame. It went flying, and I could never find it, even when I moved the furniture out of the apartment and cleaned the carpet. I ordered a new one from Kahr. And those little tiny scope mounting screws are easy to drop and lose, too.

 

[mec]

"...I did a field strip of a 1911 and the recoil spring plug did a escape act in the truck and took out the winshield.
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I did that in front of a smith in his garage, and narrowly missed a flourescent light above us. He just laughed and found the spring. Lesson..."

Sproing, (clack) Looked all over the back porch then followed my usual procedure and just ordered another 1911 plug. Later found the plug on my kitchen floor. It has slightly widened a hole already in the kitchen window on its way from the back porch into the house.