Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

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  1. That's a level of restoration I would not care to attempt, especially fabricating replacement parts.

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    1. The most gunsmithing thing I ever did was pry the firing pin out of a Zastava M57 pistol. The gun came slathered with cosmoline, and I thought I needed to take it apart as far as I was able. It was a hell of a job getting it out, and a hell of a job getting it back in (if memory serves, it was Mrs. Paco who finally got the thing reinstalled). And I didn't even need to do it at all. As I found out when I bought a similar handgun (a Zastava M70 pistol), all you really have to do is field strip the gun and submerge it in mineral spirits for an hour or so, and just depress the firing pin several times to let the liquid work its way in.

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