This thread is AWESOME, I *just* read through it today for the first time, after being directed here by a board member on another forum.
I've got a GSG-5PK (1st gen) that I picked up NIB a few years ago. I haven't fired it much, and not at all recently due to a number of feeding and FTF issues I've been having with the gun. First thing I'm doing this weekend is finding and/or replacing the spring in the FIRST photo, mine's gone, and probably dropped out the first time I took the pistol down for cleaning. I've got a spare spring in my toolbox that I found about a year ago, not sure WHERE it came from but I kept it and it may be the original.
I'll also be buying some of the Federal ammo, and blue lok-tite for the three top screws, I know I've never checked them for tightness (I've only had the pistol broken down once for cleaning since I've owned it).
I bought the pistol new before the prices dropped, waaaay before the H&K lawsuit baloney... so if the prices have gone back UP, this may be about the same in value as when originally purchased?
IIRC, I paid $515 for it about 6 months or a year after they came out, fall of 2008 or spring of 2009.
Thanks again, I'm looking forward to getting this little gem back up and running again!
Gunhorde