Loose Safety

Ron Wood · 02-04-2015, 06:56 PM

With an original button and spring, inserting the spring into the button slot first and then rotating it into the frame slot is the proper way to assemble them. The slot in the button is curved at the bottom to retain the spring...the spring is meant to stay in the button. Bazillions of springs and buttons have been messed up because folks try to drive the spring out of the button rather than depressing the top of the spring and rotating it out of the frame. I suspect that is what has happened to this spring.

02-04-2015, 06:56 PM	#19
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,040 Thanks: 1,106 Thanked 5,257 Times in 1,724 Posts	With an original button and spring, inserting the spring into the button slot first and then rotating it into the frame slot is the proper way to assemble them. The slot in the button is curved at the bottom to retain the spring...the spring is meant to stay in the button. Bazillions of springs and buttons have been messed up because folks try to drive the spring out of the button rather than depressing the top of the spring and rotating it out of the frame. I suspect that is what has happened to this spring. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction