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I took a mauser .25 pocket pistol apart. one of these: https://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read-free/mauser-rifles-pistols-table-of-contents/mauser-automatic-po
by h2odragon 2y ago
I took a mauser .25 pocket pistol apart.
one of these: https://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read-free/mauser-rifles-pistols-table-of-contents/mauser-automatic-pocket-pistol/ https://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read-free/mauser-rifles-p...
Eventually got it together again, but it required assistance from my uncle who had given it to me. He laughed long and hard when i described the predicament, then said "yup, that one got me too". He also rebuilt Mercedes diesels as a hobby, so he was full of entertaining critiques of German engineering.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoWhat was the difficulty in re-assembling it?
- h2odragon 2y agoas i recall, understanding the design fully enough to get the springs and tetchy parts back together. Which goes where. This was pre-internet so articles like that one weren't available to me. There may have been some trick to keeping springs where they were supposed to be as it reassembled too.
- leetrout 2y agoI got stuck with the Ruger Mark III .22 pistol. Reassembly after field stripping you have to know the trick to turn the pistol up (or even upside down at a 45 degree angle) with the magazine in place before you can get the mainspring housing assembly to seat correctly.