Mag Spring Swap? HOW?

[Johnny C. Kitchens]

The Mec-Gar has two pins holding the plastic bottom to the bottom of the magazine body. Removing the pins are the start of the fun. I put a small clamp on the magazine to hold the bottomto the body, so that it won't go flying away. I used a punch and a hammer, but I'm convinced there must be a better way, such as a press. Putting the new spring in place is simple enough to see. Just replace the old one. The real fun is putting it together. The hammer and punch just couldn't cut it for me. I ended up using small C-Clamp to simple squeeze the pins back in. I'm looking at those C-Clamps and already considering modifying one to remove the pins...