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Rule 1 of old guns: don't forget/lose them in the back of your car for three years.
Rule 2 of old guns: rust never sleeps.
Got Mr Fleetwood's, lost-but-now-is-found Astra 600/43 functioning again.
In typical German fashion, the Spanish designers made the collar that locks the spring to the slide a nice RC4 fit to the barrel.
A drop of water, a leather holster to hold that moisture in, hot car interior...
No slide on the slide.
Since the slide was loose on the frame, it had to be the collar and barrel locked up.
A careful tap on the collar got it freed up and some Iosso paste took out the rust and returned the RC4 fit.
Huzzah!
She's now cleaned and oiled!
In a sad note, verdigris has consumed the ammo which was with the gun when Willard brought it over.
I think I'll work some mink-oil into the holster too. It's rarer than the gun!
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