Update! From The Bench...

From Russia, Germany, uh, Alexandria VA with love? 

So I go to the range today to make sure the Walther works. Guess what? It does! It does take some getting used to. According to ZZ Top, every girl's crazy about a sharp dressed man. Does the Walther help?

Oh, the dinner jacket and tie are not props. I can rock it if needed!

Lets set the mood shall we?

Ok, that's out of the way. Here is a Walther PPK/s in 9mm Kurz (.380 Automatic for those of us on the other side of the pond). 

This is a Interarms made in the US pistol. I would rate it at 97% condition. I was asked to clean and assess. Here is where Jedi mind tricks start. 

I cleaned after a minor field stripping. Then tested with dummy rounds. The rounds would extract from the chamber but not eject from the pistol. Here is where I made my mistake. I was not familiar enough with the tool to understand that according to many that is normal. So I do this:

 











Everything gets a bath! I ordered a new extractor and all of the stuff that comes with that. It will not be here before I need to get this back to the owner. I will test tomorrow with original parts. 

Handguns all work on the same basic principal, but the minor details in the execution still bedevil me. I will have the springs and parts in stock now as I think this Pistol will run fine tomorrow. 

Another lesson learned!