A couple of years ago, I sold off 3/4 of my guns to fund the new tractor. Among them was a Remington 1100 in 20 gauge.

Seeing as I didn't expect to replace it, I also sold the MEC 600JR reloader for 20 gauge. Or so I thought...

Went to reload some 12 gauge and realized I'd dismounted and sold the wrong friggin' reloader. Fortunately, I'd sold it to a guy that works at the boat shop my daughter is Office Manager for. Had her speak with him and he was willing to swap the 12 gauge loader back to me in exchange for the 20 gauge loader I meant to sell him in the first place.

Went and made the exchange today. Apparently, the loader I sold him sat on the floor in a wet basement the whole time. Rust everywhere. I was pissed, but it was his loader and he could do with it as he pleased. It was complete and still worked, it had just been totally neglected. So I said fuck it and made the swap.

I've spent the afternoon totally disassembling it, de-rusting, buffing, lubing and reassembling, shaking my head at the neglect the whole while.

No doubt the pristine 20 gauge loader will suffer the same fate.

BTW, if you're...ummmmm...chronlogically challenged like I am, don't bullshit yourself thinking "This is simple, I'll remember how it goes back together."

Even after finding an exploded parts view on the innerwebz I had to do a couple of things twice to get it right.

Case in point - GF 22 year old son.

I gave him a NRA knife, which he broke blade trying to open a paint can lid.

Gave him a 1971 Yugo SKS which he managed to jam the action and break firing pin. Took to gunsmith to fix. He paid.

Gave him a nice Seiko watch with box, warranty card and IB, which he now says he can't find.

Gave him a nice used Beretta PX4 storm subcompact for his 21 year birthday. He says he still has it.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
BTW, if you're...ummmmm...chronlogically challenged like I am, don't bullshit yourself thinking "This is simple, I'll remember how it goes back together."

Even after finding an exploded parts view on the innerwebz I had to do a couple of things twice to get it right.

I admit my cellphone camera gets a lot of use for pre-disassembly shots these days. "Ah, yes, that's where this thingamabob went."

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Originally posted by joel9507:

I admit my cellphone camera gets a lot of use for pre-disassembly shots these days. "Ah, yes, that's where this thingamabob went."

I was actually thinking as I was taking it apart "I should probably take a couple of pictures of this..." But noooooooooooooo, I got this...

Ah yes. The cell phone camera gets a lot of use when working on things these days.

So how does it now look after you cleaned it up?

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Originally posted by rtquig:
So how does it now look after you cleaned it up?

Well, the painted base should really be stripped and repainted, but all the rust is gone and everything is slicked up nice.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
BTW, if you're...ummmmm...chronlogically challenged like I am, don't bullshit yourself thinking "This is simple, I'll remember how it goes back together."

Even after finding an exploded parts view on the innerwebz I had to do a couple of things twice to get it right.

I tore apart an electric trolling motor about three weeks ago, thinking I would order the parts the same week. Nope. Still hasn't happened. I foresee some head-scratchin' when I finally get to reassembling.

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wait a minute....
aren't you the guy that gets bored , every other month ?
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so really , you might want to buy him lunch, sometime

admit it , you were looking for something to fiddle with , anyway

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by rtquig:
So how does it now look after you cleaned it up?

Well, the painted base should really be stripped and repainted, but all the rust is gone and everything is slicked up nice.

Glad to hear that beside the paint, you got it back in shape.
A few years ago at Christmas, my wife bought me a new air compressor. A younger neighbor across the street didn't have a compressor so I gave him my older working compressor. It sat under his roof eve the rest of the winter, and by spring was no longer useable.

wonder what the 1100 looks like....

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Originally posted by SR:
wonder what the 1100 looks like....

All the guns went to a used gun/gold/silver/stamps/swords/militaria dealer I've dealt with for many years.

I spent an afternoon on Gunbroker finding several equivalents for each, averaged the prices, subtracted 30% for his markup and came up with a total for everything. He looked them all over and came up with a total within 2% of my estimate. We disagreed over the value of my Winchester 75 Target, so I kept that and he handed me an envelope full of cash for the rest.