My bad memory... yep follower is what y'all said.... so what's the bit that sits on top of a magazine spring then? ... it has been nearly 20 years!

It's called a follower lol

Oh man Slack, that's a tricky one!
Obviously aluminum, seems to be anodized.
Looks like some sort of mounting bracket.
I don't see threads in the center hole, so maybe a centering bushing of some sort?
Any of this on the right track?

Regarding the "follower" discussion, both the bolt follower and magazine follower are called followers.
The common phrasing is "Bolt Carrier" and "Magazine Follower", probably to avoid just such confusion.

It is aluminum and there are no threads in the center.

Is it a part to a telescope?

Nope.

Is it attached to whatever it's on?

No, that's just my dirty table, with some clean boxers, a quarter, and the mystery piece.

hint? this is a tough one

Hang on, Ragecage, what firearm was your piece from?



Guess:

Spindle for an RC helicopter?

Ok,  so it supports something, 3 'legs' to seat into the thing it supports.
No thread centre. .. so it spins freely. ...

DJ turntable axle/support thingy...  (pintle?)

Yeah, I was hoping to get a photo or description from rage also.

I think the last piece was from a GLOCK.
I pulled out my cleaning mat with a G17 schematic on it and it was shaped the exact same, part #21.

NOTE: part #29 is a "follower", not a "magazine follower" hahaha! 
(I've always herd "mag. follower" and "bolt carrier" myself, but completely feel it doesn't matter. I just think it's funny that Glock just uses "follower".


Watcher is on the right track!!!

Quote from: Watcher on June 03, 2015, 04:55:03 PM
Hang on, Ragecage, what firearm was your piece from?

Yup, Glock indeed. A gem 3 G21 to be exact. And I KNEW it was just called a follower lol didn't want to start any trouble though.

And with that diagram there goes all my other challenges haha

Quote from: ragecage23 on June 03, 2015, 06:45:07 PM
And with that diagram there goes all my other challenges haha

As good an excuse as any to buy a new gun!

Glock only calls it a follower (not magazine follower) because it doesn't have a bolt follower, hence no reason to specify.
On other platforms (AR for example) there are BOTH magazine and bolt followers.
Benelli shotguns also have bolt followers AND magazine followers. In that case, the bolt follower is a separate piece that adds weight and inertia to the bolt, smoothing operation.
In a shotgun (tube-fed type), the "magazine follower" is commonly called the plunger, for some reason.

I knew I had seen that part before! I was working on my Dad's Glock a while back.

This new part has me stumped.
Janx's guess of a turntable spindle seems reasonable...?

Interesting.  So I wasn't really wrong that it was a slide rail, just got beaten to it (and beaten with a more specific answer).

Quote from: Watcher on June 03, 2015, 08:25:50 PM
Interesting.  So I wasn't really wrong that it was a slide rail, just got beaten to it (and beaten with a more specific answer).

The slide rail is different from the locking block. There are four rails embedded into the polymer frame that the slide, well, slides on. The locking block locks the slide back after an empty magazine.

Quote from: Slack on June 03, 2015, 07:08:06 PM

Quote from: ragecage23 on June 03, 2015, 06:45:07 PM
And with that diagram there goes all my other challenges haha

As good an excuse as any to buy a new gun!

If only my wife agreed lol I apparently don't need more than two, my thee being a Ruger SR22