Spare parts, what do you do with them?

[Reverenddel]

I had to dig into my "gun junk box" which isn't junk, but a bunch of spare parts that I'm not using.

What do you do with your spare parts? I had contemplated just selling them for a ridiculously low price, but most are the parts people would replace anyway.

[ShotgunBlast]

Trash. It always feels good to get rid of junk.

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[SHMIV]

Sort and store them. Never know what may come in handy. Even if you don't use them, you may have the opportunity to help a friend.

Every time I pitch a random part, I need it within a week.

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[OakRidgeStars]

I am the biggest spare part packrat. I'll use that stuff one of these days!

[0ne5hot]

Every time I go digging for a part, I find a disassembled gun.

[Monkey]

Bagged, identified which part from which rifle/pistol, and stored in my plastic bin o' parts.

Who knows - somebody might have use for three Ruger 10/22 factory magazine release levers...

[M1A4ME]

I only buy spares for guns I own, so, I might need them some day.

I spray some oil on them, put them in a zip lock bag, or a small empty washed out and dried well medicine bottle and then put the parts bags/bottles in an empty folger's coffee container with a label n it to tell me which gun the parts are for.

I've got a few of these on the shelf in the garage.

[Reverenddel]

Okay, so i'm not alone in this matter! I feel a bit better. I have a rubber maid large tub full of shotgun/rifle/handgun parts. I started noticing, some aren't for guns I own, and remember that when I do builds for people I give them their parts back, which they just hand back to me, and say "Keep it!"

Now I have parts to guns I don't own. HAHAHAH!

[MarcSpaz]

Same here. I have a huge box of misc parts and a dedicated shelf in my safe for the more "expensive" parts. and it never fails, everything I toss out, I end up looking for a few days later, swearing up and down I know I have it somewhere.

I'm pretty sure if I buy a barrel, stripped upper and stripped lower, I can build a complete AR.

[Swampman]

My grandfather (a farmer) lived by the adage, "Don't throw nothin' out, might need that some day."

Proud to say I have inherited that trait! My wife used to grouse about all the crap I had laying around. That is, until the day came that she wanted something done and I didn't have to go buy something to do the job. Amazing how quickly the tune changes!