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QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4144 Location: Benton Harbor MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Ballard firing pin issues Oct 3^rd, 2013 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	What can you do to keep a Ballard firing pin from flying away into the grass if you disassemble the block to clean it at the range?

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RSW Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1297 Location: Arizona Joined: Sep 8^th, 2006	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #1 - Oct 3^rd, 2013 at 10:36pm	Print Post
	Gorilla Glue?

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shovel80 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 896 Location: Sonora,CA Joined: Jun 6^th, 2011	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #2 - Oct 3^rd, 2013 at 10:38pm	Print Post
	LOL..HUH!? Terry

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QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4144 Location: Benton Harbor MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #3 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 7:11am	Print Post
	All I can think of is having them TiNi coated in bright day-glo orange or pink not sure how well that advice would be received though

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40_Rod Frequent Elocutionist Offline Extremism in the persuit of accuracy is not a vice Posts: 4285 Location: Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 20^th, 2004	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #4 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 8:35am	Print Post
	Buy two and keep one in your box. I have found that if I have a spare handy it scares the one in use enough so it doesn’t break or get lost. 40 Rod


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ClaMar Full Member Offline Posts: 141 Location: Texas Joined: Jul 23^rd, 2013	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #5 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 9:21am	Print Post
	You really don't need to disassemble the block at the range. Better to do it in the shop under conditions under better control. If you insist on it, have a towel to catch loose parts and a magnet to find them when they stray. Clarence


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John Taylor Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1851 Location: Lewiston, ID Joined: Oct 23^rd, 2006	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #6 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 9:49am	Print Post
	Large clear plastic bag. Take it apart inside the bag and you won't loose the small parts. We all know that if something is spring loaded it can vanish while you are looking at it and then you hear a small clink clear across the shop. If your outside the chances of finding a small part that is launched under spring pressure is harder than finding the needle in a hay stack, sitting on a hay stack may produce said needle.

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JCHannum Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 435 Location: Toledo Joined: Aug 8^th, 2007	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #7 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 9:51am	Print Post
	A pillow case does double duty as a wiping rag.

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shovel80 Oldtimer Offline Posts: 896 Location: Sonora,CA Joined: Jun 6^th, 2011	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #8 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 10:15am	Print Post
	I guess maybe it depends on the ballard, but my firing pins come out with out dissassemling the blocks and are not spring loaded.. Terry..

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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #9 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 11:05am	Print Post
	Cry it's already to late. JLouis

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FITZ Oldtimer Offline REGARDS Posts: 917 Location: MASSACHUSETTS Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #10 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 7:51pm	Print Post
	Take it apart at home. At your bench. FITZ.

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QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4144 Location: Benton Harbor MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #11 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 8:24pm	Print Post
	this is not to be taken too seriously

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 12333 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #12 - Oct 4^th, 2013 at 9:07pm	Print Post
	Hire a professional, DW. Did you find it? Joe.

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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #13 - Oct 5^th, 2013 at 1:08am	Print Post
	Duct tape a bunch of cow magnets to a garden rake.

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FITZ Oldtimer Offline REGARDS Posts: 917 Location: MASSACHUSETTS Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: Ballard firing pin issues Reply #14 - Oct 5^th, 2013 at 3:12pm	Print Post
	Do it on a Paved parking lot. Preferrably Asphalt that still has a good black surface color and no pot holes. Remember "Preperation H" will not cure Assphalt. FITZ.

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