Exploded view diagrams

[DkHelmet]

So, I'm taking apart the slide on my TM G18c AEP, and as I remove the selector switch, this totally unseen little spring loaded pin pops out. Now, normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but...

• The pin was pointing upwards and away from my work table
• It was a very, very strong spring
• The pin was 1mm in diameter and apparently made of cotton candy, because it flew out of the switch and completely disappeared

Ugh! Without the pin, the selector switch flops around like a day old fish. It happened so quickly I was almost convinced that there wasn't a pin, and just a spring and my imagination. So, I begin looking, moving things around, hoping it had just flicked off and fell nearby. No luck.

So I spend an hour on my hands and knees in my unfinshed basement, scouring back and forth. No luck. Since the thing's gotta be only grams, it could have gone anywhere, bounced off of rafters, fell into the crack of a storage box, anywhere. After I gave up, I found it on the floor about 10 feet from where I was working.

If I hadn't been such a dumbass and actually looked at the manual before I took my allen wrenches to it, I would have saw it, plain as day- the spring loaded evil in the switch. Exploded view diagrams are your friends.

[T3]

wow, that's the most instense war story I've ever heard! This thread is in the wrong place! It should be under war stories 'cause I don't know of any airsofter's who haven't tried to take apart their equipment WITHOUT looking at the manual's first, and then being like A.) What are these extra parts? or B.) Where the F did that flying spring go!?!?!?!?


...it's more depressing when the slide spring for your real steel .45 goes accross the room at 800 FPS and just walks away on it's own and you KNOW that you can't just put the gun back together and hope for the best..... hahahahaha

[USMC_Deadeye]

Originally Posted by T3

...it's more depressing when the slide spring for your real steel .45 goes accross the room at 800 FPS and just walks away on it's own and you KNOW that you can't just put the gun back together and hope for the best..... hahahahaha

Or same spring, but to your real steel M-9 Beretta shoots off the O-2 level if the ship you're on while En route to Mogadishu, Somalia and lands some where in the Indian Ocean.

/Nice shot Doc
//f***in' Navy Corpman

[DkHelmet]

Why Cy, I do believe you're poking fun at me. Touche.

[P7hk9]

Originally Posted by T3

...it's more depressing when the slide spring for your real steel .45 goes accross the room at 800 FPS and just walks away on it's own and you KNOW that you can't just put the gun back together and hope for the best..... hahahahaha

Heh. I hit my dad in the head with a recoil spring from a .45 when I was a teenager. Come to think of it, I think I shot a spring at my wife a few years ago, too. Who will be my next victim? Stay tuned.