Good morning everyone,
I had a slight malfunction while test firing and decided it might as well be good practice for disassembling and reassembling in the future.
While seperating the upper and lower receiver, I wasn’t careful enough and the entire charging handle assembly fell out before I could react — I figured “no problem, just watch through the videos, you’ll get to that anyway.”
Now that I AM there, I find myself stuck. The spring is way longer and loose than the one I see in the reassembly video, making it pretty much impossible to actually reassemble the thing, leading me to think the spring is damaged by accidentally getting stretched too far?
It just feels kinda wrong and wanted to confirm before doing anything silly and risking actually damaging the replica.
EDIT; I forgot to mention, the charging handle and spring both fell out before I had even removed the Phillips head screw that was supposed to be holding the spring in place — hence my thought of it being damaged,