Updated and bumped
Veeshir kindly sent me a photo of the sign that used to stand outside of Numrich's building.
Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to walk around their warehouse, before they went strictly online?
Well, it turned out not to be so bad, but it could have been pretty awful.
Yesterday, I was field stripping my Colt 1908 vest pocket .25 acp pistol, and I managed to let the mainspring guide rod, which was under tension, launch itself across the room, where it disappeared among a mass of shelves, boxes, small cabinets and general junk. The guide rod is very small, but a key part of the firing pin assembly.
I plan on trying to find the piece today or tomorrow, but I think it's unlikely that I'm going to turn it up. I began looking for the part online, and was having trouble locating anybody who had one in stock, when I stumbled across Numrich Gun Parts. My heroes! They have the part (I ordered two, to be on the safe side), and went ahead and ordered a new recoil spring, too . I also ordered some new grips for my Colt .25 Automatic (successor to the Colt, Jr, and not to be confused with the 1908); they're black replacement grips, and will, in my opinion, look better than the gaudy Jay Scott grips that came with the pistol when I bought it a few years ago. The right grip cracked a few days ago and fell into two pieces when I was out at the range, and although I was able to glue the two pieces back together, I figured I'd go ahead and replace them (as I say, they're fairly gaudy things: plastic laminated onto wood, and made to look like stag grips).
Btw, I think it was friend and commenter Veeshir who first mentioned Numrich here a couple of years ago; I believe you said you lived near their warehouse at one time, didn't you V?
