Same here. Either clean up my bench, or work on a weapon. Cleaning could wait, my late aunt's Beretta Jaguar instead got it's first detail strip and clean since it left the factory sometime in the late 1950s. Of course, since it had fired only one box of ammo in all that time, cleaning wasn't much of a problem.
However, I did tweak the action with a few strategic droplets of Nanolube. Talk about smoooooth. Getting the slide lock back on was a bit tricky, but it was only about half an hour of muttering under my breath.
Then I disassembled one of the magazines, and wiped a lot of dry black dust out of it. Putting it back together, the looong coil magazine spring launched the floorplate lock somewhere onto the bench, among a number of boxes. I heard it thump cardboard twice, but it could have fallen into the Grand Canyon for all the good it did me.
I have a few WW2-vintage Beretta .32 mags, and the floorplate would fit inside the .22 body, so I gave it a try. It looked great, until it came time to button it up. It got launched to parts semi-unknown, too. Maybe it will be found when I start looking for another part. I've found those little ball bearings from the Mossberg safety in the middle of the floor, months after I lost them, and after passing over that same spot hundreds of times.
My next fall-back position, to be tried tomorrow, is to adapt the now-surplus plastic spring guide from the Sig P229 to the Beretta magazine. But I decided to quit, because if Plan B didn't work, I'd come up with D, E, etc. until it got done, and I don't want to stay up all night. Not when I have all of Saturday to do it.
Oh, and that CZ452 is almost like having a new baby in the house. All-new Dewey cleaning equipment, patches, etc. Another insanely expensive, but luxurious, leather sling from Brownell's. Another Leupold scope, new type of ammo, Timney target trigger, and other stuff I've probably forgotten. But a class, and classic, rimfire rifle deserves classy accessories.
One pleasant surprise is, according to all the posts on the CZ topic at rimfirecentral, the cheapest .17HM2 ammo also shoots the best. Ely at $65 a brick works the better than other brands costing 5-10 dollars more.
Afternoon Win-mag, your magazine assembly/disassembly and the launching to parts unknown, various and sundry springs onto the workbench hits very close to home. The big worklight has saved more than one spring from the shop-vac.
It’s amazing what ends up under the workbench, course I’m the kind of guy that sifts through the expended primer pile looking for that one unused primer that flipped out of when I was priming. Well, usually find one, sometimes two.
Couple more bags of 45 and 38 brass have been cleaned sorted inspected and returned to duty.