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I'm taking an old Rem 760 from left handed safety back to right hand
Dang little spring for the safety (same as Rem 870). Doing this in my basement with carpeted floor
I've looked for over an hour
Frustrated
Gave up!

Magnet

Big clear plastic bag when taking guns apart that have springs! Do the disassembly inside the bag.

Go get you a magnet on a stick. Best $10 I spent in a long time.

I just went over the area a 3rd time with the magnet on a stick
Also lay on the floor and look over the top of the carpet
Perhaps it flew further than I give it credit for
Gotta buy a replacement

I feel your pain.

Some years ago, I decided to take apart a rather dirty Ruger Blackhawk for a thorough cleaning.

Once I got into the guts, I heard the dreaded 'Spang!', and a spring flew off into shag carpeting. After searching half the night for it, I finally, in desperation, just threw all the parts into a shoebox, thinking I would take it to a gunsmith.
Then, a few days later, my bare feet found the spring. I gathered up my courage, and managed to get everything back in place and working.

Anymore, my curiosity about what is inside the workings of a firearm is quite limited.

I have a telescoping one with a LED light in the center of the magnet. Great for old guys like me!

Serves you right for having a carpeted basement.

Vacuum with a Rainbow Vacuum. Then run a magnet through the bowl. You can do the same with a shop vac. That's how crime scene detectives find pubic hair in the carpet.

I take a lot of guns apart. I was disassembling one of the then new Ruger LCP pistols and the extractor hook had a real stiff spring so I was using the old plastic bag trick. Fricking extractor left so hard it went through the bag and traveled about 20' bounced off the ceiling into a closed up cardboard box on the top shelf with the 4 flaps interlocked holding it shut. My son heard it hit the ceiling or wall and then cardboard but not the floor. Lucky that little part was heavy enough to make that much sound. Anyway we start opening boxes and it was in the very bottom of one of those boxes. It was the miracle find. I am not always that lucky.

[quote=HiredGun]Vacuum with a Rainbow Vacuum. Then run a magnet through the bowl. You can do the same with a shop vac. That's how crime scene detectives find pubic hair in the carpet.



I had no idea pubic hair is magnetic!

Goddam Savage 110 spring stuck to a brush on the wall.

Found it a couple weeks after I put the new one in- which I had to order of course. Now I have a spare in my left over parts box.....Should I ever need one again. The guy was a Slope worker so never knew the difference..

Took the trigger assembly to a gunsmith today and explained all
End result was my Remington 760 in 223 was factory left hand, the hole that houses the lost spring is offset to the left, not centered like the right handed ones. They could plug the hole and drill a new one for less than $40. It was not the $. Time was the consideration, I kept it left handed
Damage for new spring $3
I was in my basement telling my wife and messing with my magnet on stick as I talked......you guessed it.... the &$!?$&@&&$ spring I had lost was on the magnet . I am guessing my daughter had located it this morning by accident and did not know it