This screw needs a warning

[meh]

Yeah, so I had a good time shooting my Miroku-made 1892 today, and as I was cleaning it up, which so far I've done just by swabbing it out in the places I could reach, I noticed that the cartridge stop was sticking. I'd taken a Rossi 92 all the way down for tuning and cleaning many times, but I hadn't ever done that with the Miroku. For some reason, I had 1873 on the brain instead of 1892, and I removed the tang screw and a screw underneath the tang to take off the buttstock.



What I learned today is that, on an 1892 Miroku, you don't ever want to remove that screw underneath the tang unless you've already captured the hammer spring. What a pain. The hammer spring is uber strong because of the rebounding hammer design, I guess, way too strong just to manhandle like I've done with Ruger GP100 and SP101 hammer springs.



after making a jig to get the spring recaptured on a vise, the rifle was back together. I kind of want to engrave "NO" next to this screw.

 

[one-eyed Jack]

Every time I see the word "screw" in an OP I think of Biden. Jack.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Easy. Just grind it off so you can only tighten it.

 

[Mtn_Guy]

And hear I thought this thread was going to be about someone’s Ex- wife…

glad you eventually managed to get the rifle back together.

 

[PATRON]

In cases like this I have found YouTube to be very helpful.

 

[AHM]

Every time I see the word "screw" in an OP I think of Biden.

(And it's not like he doesn't need a warning).

 

[meh]

(And it's not like he doesn't need a warning).

Yeah, but that guy had loose screws out of the box, and now most of them are missing.

 

[AHM]

I kind of want to engrave "NO" next to this screw.

It's in an inconspicuous place, right?
Take one of those Birchwood-Casey blueing markers
Amazon product ASIN B000TTIEY6View: https://www.amazon.com/713201-Casey-Presto-Blue-Touch-Up/dp/B000TTIEY6/

and color the screw.

The screw acquires a stain.

The stain becomes a warning.

P. S. Cultural reference.

 

[Dennis in MA]

This screw almost tossed meh off the roof.

 

[wilson911]

I've never gotten a screw that DIDN'T warrant a warning.

 

[Poxbox]

Replace with a clutch head screw.

 

[meh]

Replace with a clutch head screw.

Hah. That would do it, but I wasn't seriously considering it for myself. If I make this mistake again, they can put me on the Democratic primary ticket for 2024. But in general, I was thinking that a paragraph-long warning label like the one on Ruger barrels wouldn't be a terrible idea.

 

[MisterHappy]

Not a screw, and not a firearm, but a warning label that I actually encountered.



I spoke with one of the people at the company that made the equipment, to see if it was a uber-tech-nerd humor thing, and was told that it was "a real warning sticker."

Too bad - it was in a perfect spot for manipulating that board.

 

[paul73]

Not a screw, and not a firearm, but a warning label that I actually encountered.

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I spoke with one of the people at the company that made the equipment, to see if it was a uber-tech-nerd humor thing, and was told that it was "a real warning sticker."

Too bad - it was in a perfect spot for manipulating that board.

Odd, a huge capacitor typically gets its frame soldered to the ground on the board - a perfect handle, in fact.
I guess it was a warning for me.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Doesn't that sticker cover up the pre-scored rupture points for the capacitor?

 

[Mesatchornug]

Doesn't that sticker cover up the pre-scored rupture points for the capacitor?

clearly they're seeing more of the former failures in the field than the latter, and are willing to take the risk

 

[Marty McFly]

I feel your pain. One time I decided I could replace the hammer spring on a Steven's single shot shotgun. I was wrong. Brought it to my gunsmith. He brought it to the guy that he learned everything from. Got it back. It works. But I was told to never bring it back to him

 

[Garys]

I have a Savage 69RXL. I had to disassemble it several times to fix an issue first with the bolt carrier and then with the extractors. I finally found a very good video on YouTube that showed how to detail strip the gun. The gunsmith doing the video said that under no circumstances should the trigger/lifter assembly be taken apart. There is literally no one alive who knows how Savage assembled the parts. He said if there is a problem with that assembly buy another one somewhere no matter what the cost.

Other than that, it's not a horrible gun to work on once you realize that you have to remove the stock first.

I feel your pain. One time I decided I could replace the hammer spring on a Steven's single shot shotgun. I was wrong. Brought it to my gunsmith. He brought it to the guy that he learned everything from. Got it back. It works. But I was told to never bring it back to him

 

[Zappa]

Back in the mid 80's (before YouTube videos existed), I had a Winchester 88 chambered in .308 which had a bad extraction problem. I detail stripped the gun to do a deep cleaning and made the horrible error of removing the hammer pivot pin. What a friggin' horror show, it took me several hours to get the hammer back in place. Never made that mistake again.