Mainspring install tricks or tool

Vlim · 05-03-2006, 04:34 AM

Hi,

What I did was take a takedown tool (repro), place it on an opened pair of plyers. Place the spring on the hole of the takedown tool, the hole was slightly smaller than the width of the spring. Pushed in the guide rod from above, using a small screwdriver through the hole in the guide rod as a lever. This made it easier to push the lip on the end of the guide rod past the end of the coil spring, using the extra space under the takedown tool.

If the takedown tool is caught between the spring and the guide rod lip, it can be wiggled out of the way quite easily.

Placing the spring and rod in the frame was actually the easy bit.

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05-03-2006, 04:34 AM	#2
Vlim Moderator Lifetime LugerForum Patron Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Europe Posts: 5,053 Thanks: 1,036 Thanked 3,990 Times in 1,205 Posts	Hi, What I did was take a takedown tool (repro), place it on an opened pair of plyers. Place the spring on the hole of the takedown tool, the hole was slightly smaller than the width of the spring. Pushed in the guide rod from above, using a small screwdriver through the hole in the guide rod as a lever. This made it easier to push the lip on the end of the guide rod past the end of the coil spring, using the extra space under the takedown tool. If the takedown tool is caught between the spring and the guide rod lip, it can be wiggled out of the way quite easily. Placing the spring and rod in the frame was actually the easy bit.