M20P problem

Ok, so I pulled my trusty Stirling apart for a coat of paint, which went very well. EXCEPT. When taking the safety latch off my thumb was a little bit too far back, which allowed the safety latch bearing to achieve low orbit, probably never to be seen again. So what I'm after is either:

-If someone has one handy, if they are brave enough to pull theirs off and measure the diameter of the bearing so I can get another one, or

-If someone has an inoperable rifle I can buy the bearing out of.

Any help would be appreciated, even somewhere in Hamilton that would sell me one approx. 3mm bearing.

Azumith employ the "grid search with magnet" method for recovery.

This is another option. I think I have an extendable magnet, could do my best blind man impression.

Ball bearing ?? If so you used to be to purchase from SKF.. Probably only want your left ball in exchange for one ha ha .. Good job you dont need two of them... Farrells Ham may be helpful as well ...

Yeah it's a tiny 2-3mm ball bearing that sits on top of a tiny spring. The spring pushes the bearing into one of two indents on the safety, either locking it forward or backwards.

Cheers for the leads Happy, I almost ordered one off an American site, until I saw the shipping for a $2.55 bearing was $43 :/

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Originally Posted by AzumitH

Yeah it's a tiny 2-3mm ball bearing that sits on top of a tiny spring. The spring pushes the bearing into one of two indents on the safety, either locking it forward or backwards.

Cheers for the leads Happy, I almost ordered one off an American site, until I saw the shipping for a $2.55 bearing was $43 :/

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Another option would be try a bike shop. They have lots of sizes. I probably have a few here too.

That's another good idea. I just slapped the verniers on the spring itself and got an OD of 2.91, so it must be a 3mm bearing.

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That's another good idea. I just slapped the verniers on the spring itself and got an OD of 2.91, so it must be a 3mm bearing.

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Carefully pop allen keys into the hole and find the biggest one that fits. I have heaps of about 3.8mm/0.15" ball bearings that may work.

Cameron Sports is the importer for Stirling Rifles and stocks all these parts.
Cameron Sports Imports

These Rifles are manufactured by Armscor

I recently had to purchase the trigger assembly due to me removing it due to a broken trigger.
I placed all the other parts in a safe place while I waited for the trigger to arrive.
Once I got the trigger I could not find the safe place I put all the other parts in so had to reorder these..... and Yes two days after these parts arrived I remembered where the safe place was and retireved the original parts.

Heres a link to the Manual which has a parts list.
Safety Latch Bearing is part #2039
http://stevespages.com/pdf/armscor_20.pdf

Cheers
Pete

That's quite a handy page P38. Can I email Cameron Sports directly about it? I saw earlier that they say they don't deal with the public and to go through their local agent, which is Guntraders & Outdoors. I emailed Steve about ordering the ball, but I doubt I'll hear back from him at all.

Check the size of the hole using shank of a drill bit or allen key. It is probably pretty standard. Unlikely to make something specific for the rifle and just use something standard.

So I head back downstairs to measure the size of the hole, and for some unknown reason I decide to look under some hand clay-thrower packaging on the other side of the garage. Lo and behold, there is a tiny 3.15mm steel ball under it :D

Needless to say I grabbed it, ran back over to the bench and stuffed it back where it belongs. Thanks very much for the replies guys, especially for the heads up about Cameron Sports, as I think the trigger will need replacing in the near future as it has a hefty burr where it presses on the sear(?).

All back in one piece

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ps0298ce7b.jpg

Got to love a happy ending :thumbsup:

What kind of scrub do you crawl through for that kind of camo?

This is a man that could have benefited from the 'disassemble in a plastic bag' technique

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Got to love a happy ending :thumbsup:

What kind of scrub do you crawl through for that kind of camo?

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It mostly see's it's time spent spotlighting off the back of the ute, or wandering around a sand quarry just before dark. In all honesty though, I was just after something that looked good, covered the well past it original finish, and didn't take forever to do (whole job excluding drying time was about 30 mins)

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This is a man that could have benefited from the 'disassemble in a plastic bag' technique

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I could certainly have benefited from knowing it existed, let alone practicing it lol.

Definitely will next time, it's a prick of an idea having bearings on springs, I can tell you.

Hey I had one of those dot sights a few years ago! The front lens fell out :( 10/22 is hard on stuff.

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it's a prick of an idea having bearings on springs

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Sure is, had a ute with this stupid setup on cam chain tensioner, first I knew about it was the 'tinkle tinkle plop' sound it made on the way down through the engine and then on a dirt bike kick starter as it fired across the forest. Stupid idea.

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Hey I had one of those dot sights a few years ago! The front lens fell out :( 10/22 is hard on stuff.

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Well this one I suspect has the wrong clamps on it, as you tighten it it leans over and ends up off centre :(

Not sure how to proceed with this one lol

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Well this one I suspect has the wrong clamps on it, as you tighten it it leans over and ends up off centre :(

Not sure how to proceed with this one lol

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Out of spec rail, clamp, or both? Who knows! I think I managed to shoot 1 possum with mine before parts fell out.

Unrelated, how'd you do the paint job?

Rail is good, I have put the 4x40 back on there till I nut it out. It seems to be the clamps, there's too much of a gap at the top. It grips the rail, but it doesn't nip up when it should, which results in the clamp twisting, which rolls the sight off centre. I have a funny feeling they are the clamps for the picatinny version, might have to look into this possibility.

As for the camo, the stock was sprayed black to begin with, then found a test pot with a good intermediate grey (Taubmans "Luau" in this case) I used an online camo generator (Camouflage generator) to play around with how far to lighten the grey for the third colour. Once I had it all figured out and tinted, I got a craft sponge on a stick (from Spotlight) and mutilated it with some needle-nosed pliers and went to town. Main things with this method is remember to rotate the sponge, and practice on something first to see how much paint you need on it. When that was done I just sprayed it a few times with a matt clear.