Locking Bolt Spring help

[Shooter629]

Thank you everyone, I'm ordering a replacement an will give all a try. Will post the outcome.

Thank you.

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by Shooter629

Thank you everyone, I'm ordering a replacement an will give all a try. Will post the outcome.

Thank you.

If you have ordered anything other than an original retainer spring, you are likely to have the same issue.

[Shooter629]

How can I tell if I'm buying a original? Last one had no markings at all.

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by Shooter629

How can I tell if I'm buying a original? Last one had no markings at all.

None have markings; one has to depend on the dealer.
From whom did you order?

Lugerdoc could have originals, Sarco and Numrich likely reproduction unless specifically described as original.

Others, who knows?

I don't understand any reluctance to fit the one you have so that it works. Even if you "destroy" it, you have not lost anything as it does not work now.

As I said in my first post, a little grinding, or as someone said file with a diamond file, will do the trick- it does not take much.