Here is a good one for all those people who have stabbed themselves with screw drivers, launched springs or driven their fists into the back end of Savage 24 receivers while trying to reinstall the main springs.


https://youtu.be/sBH9lgYdMTM

Well $hit. Where was this years ago when I was crawling around the garage floor looking for the spring??? It has been years but I remember blood being involved.

Thanks!!!!!

My brother had one of these in the mid 60s and of course, I took it apart; I recall it was a bitch to re-assemble and it wasn't because I was 14. Haven't touched one since.

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Originally posted by ramrod340:
Well $hit. Where was this years ago when I was crawling around the garage floor looking for the spring??? It has been years but I remember blood being involved.

Thanks!!!!!

Well, now that's pretty simple silly. Back then, 20 years ago we didn't have that "file share thingy" like we have with smart phones and such. So when we were both crawling around on the floor, looking for our launched springs and bonked our heads together, the idea didn't get transferred from my noggin to yours! Don't worry. I crawled for a lot of years even after I learned to walk. I still do quite often.

I've often thought that my favorite spot must be on my hands and knees, under the bench with a flashlight saying "where'd that little sumbitch go?".

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Originally posted by M Pursell:
I've often thought that my favorite spot must be on my hands and knees, under the bench with a flashlight saying "where'd that little sumbitch go?".

As I've gotten older I've grown less fond of crawling. Now if I'm doing a bunch of clean and services or other work that means loosing parts, I attach my magnetic sticky tray to my action support arm. That thing is like the black hole of my bench. Anything that falls gets sucked in like a little kid on a Slurpee!

Here is a tool design which I made back in early 70's to work on the Sav. B and other Stevens double shotguns. I worked on lots of these doubles under warranty and for the general public. They made a bunch of powdered metal hammers and they broke often. This was a way to compress the hammer spring and place the pin partly through the Yoke and the first hammer with an angle tip on a slave pin. This tool made it a one man job. If you use a stick to push on the hammer it took two people to line up everything. This is a crude drawing, but I hope people can see how it was done.