Recoil spring replacement.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by zormpas

Is that sorta like a left handed Crescent wrench?

Ah, no...And you can't hunt snipes with it either...

You can wind a spring in either direction, to the left or to the right...In a system where you want two balanced forces working in harmony you would have one of each...In production pistols, rifles, motorcycles, etc this is impractical, but in high end systems you would spare no expense...You'd use ground wire, not drawn; and the ends would be ground flat and parallel...The number of coils would be equal and the overall length would be equal also...

When I worked as a millwright we often made our own springs (obsolete equipment)...Spring Winder pic attached...You feed the wire in and turn the crank...There is a finger that is adjustable for distance between coils, the mandrel determines diameter, and wire diameter determines resistance to deflection...



As all this applies to handguns, only the high end models have matched spring sets...But you can buy them for specific handguns...