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seanlyn
PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2023 9:11 am 
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Doing some maintenance on my CP88, the infamous safety indent ball launched itself into space, never to be found. I miked the hole for the spring (I still have the spring!). Turns out it is 1/8"
Went through my collection of very small screws/bolts and found a very small screw with a somewhat rounded phillips head, the head being just a tad over 1/8" in diameter. Mounted the screw into a Dremel tool and sized it down to 1/8 with a jewellers file, and rounded it a bit to replicate a ball. Then cut off the treaded part with a 32 TPI saw. Fit like a glove, and works fine.
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YepYep
PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2023 10:03 am 
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I read that post you deleted and felt that painful and Opps moment!

Glad you are very skillful and fixed it so nicely! Good job! [emoji38]

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Ravenairgun
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i had the same thing happen to me....the ball is going to be were ever your floor is leveled to...my floors crooked so it rolled to the other side of the room behind a cabinet took me like 30 minutes to find it buy i did...try to figure were it would roll too....
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YepYep
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Heard this tiny ball before... So I avoid doing anything to it on my two CP88~ [emoji38]

And I had something similar before that I dropped the breech screw of my 2240 to the ground when I working on it in the railcar shelter in my job... Very difficult but successfully found it at last~

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Ravenairgun
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u need a magnet
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pistolero
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I lost that small ball bearing one time from a crosman 2240, solution is to use plastic bead from my sister homecraft and it works very well :), you can probably get it from michael's or the dollar store.
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80Indy
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I saved lots of small bearings and springs from my old job mostly from printers.
One type of bearing had balls that were a perfect fit for the crosman safety.
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Woody
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I was in a similar predicament a few years ago. If you need a small detent ball, look up sizes of steel shot for shotguns. I just picked up a box of shells the size i needed, opened one at used one ball. You could always ask friends here, or in real life
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