Guide Rod third hand

[shred]

This might be the simplest tool ever, but it comes in mighty handy fiddling with recoil springs and full-length guide rods. No more chasing spring plugs all over the house! Works great with Recoil Masters too! Powered by the air you breathe and the thumbs you type with!

All you do is take a chunk of something reasonably thin and stiff (I've used wood, plastic, metal and even an empty primer tray) and drill a 1/2 inch hole in it.

If you want to get fancy, put a little notch in one side of the hole, like so:

To use it, stick the reverse plug in the hole, add springs and guide rod. Put a couple fingers on either side and your thumb on the guide rod head. Push

Note that your other hand is free to wave to the paparazzi until such time as you deign to put the takedown pin in. Once you do that, the tool slides off easily.

If you're into really heavy springs, you might want to set the guide rod head on a table or something.

(I thought everybody had one of these, but then some at the RGN's were in awe of my gadget)

(Edited by shred at 6:15 pm on Sep. 8, 2002)

[Flexmoney]

Keep this stuff a'comin'

[kbear38S]

Way cool tool shred, but what fun is gun maintenance if you can't launch your reverse plug across the room?

[Nolan]

About 5 years ago I made mine out of .750x.250 aluminum bar about 2.5 inches long.

[benos]

That's beautiful.

[TheOtherErik]

That tool  looks like it would really come in handy. I launched my reverse plug in the hotel room that i was staying at during the race gun nats. It actually stuck into the ceeling. I havent reveived a bill yet, so I guess they didn't notice.

Erik-

[gm iprod]

So simple. I expect it to be in the next Dillon catalog.