So I ended up with a Colt BUS that has a broken spring. I could not find a good take apart manual in less than 10 seconds of extensive google searching so I decided to go at it like a monkey on a machinegun at the office on a short lunch break.
10 minutes later, partly due to the lack of appropriate tools, I had the thing apart and here is the result:
Now you will notice two key elements in this situation:
1. See that spring with the metal cap on it? Yeah, that's the big one of two and the one that I caught. There is a second smaller one that I heard hit the ceiling and ricochet across the room. No customers or employees screamed so I don't think it hit anyone in the eye or anything. But the problem is that despite the best search and rescue work in the history of the company, it is not in the picture.
2. The spring portion that was already broken, well, still is broken as it appears to be a non-serviceable item. Now, that is not going to stop me from fixing it, oh no. It just means I need to fire up the drill press for stage 2 of the repairs.
The obvious less here?
I really need a drill press at work for lunch breaks...
10 minutes later, partly due to the lack of appropriate tools, I had the thing apart and here is the result:
Now you will notice two key elements in this situation:
1. See that spring with the metal cap on it? Yeah, that's the big one of two and the one that I caught. There is a second smaller one that I heard hit the ceiling and ricochet across the room. No customers or employees screamed so I don't think it hit anyone in the eye or anything. But the problem is that despite the best search and rescue work in the history of the company, it is not in the picture.
2. The spring portion that was already broken, well, still is broken as it appears to be a non-serviceable item. Now, that is not going to stop me from fixing it, oh no. It just means I need to fire up the drill press for stage 2 of the repairs.
The obvious less here?
I really need a drill press at work for lunch breaks...
