Balder,
Current smart money is on the consensus is that the "bomb" mark has nothing to do with the Test Eagles, but is probably a Luger workers' inspection mark. I have a regular American Eagle with the mark, and if you do a search in the Forum you will find several discussions on exactly this topic.
...and Ron,
My 1900AE had a piece of wood jammed into the same place. The spring was extremely weak--I mean wet-noodle-weak--and I presumed that a previous owner placed it there to try to increase the tension.
I'm really curious to know where these springs actually fracture, when they do break. After experiencing the weak spring and piece of wood, and installing a newly manufactured spring, I don't think that changing that flex point would increase the breakage possibility very much. Just my .02.
--Dwight
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