Recoil spring replacement.

Zorba · 01-02-2014, 11:49 PM

When I ordered the new springs for my Nambu, I also ordered a new recoil spring for the Luger. I put it in tonite, using a hybrid approach of Thor's instructions, a YouTube video I found, and my own improvisation. My addition to the technique was to temporarily insert a spacer at the bottom of the spring to hold the hook up so I could hook it onto the do-dah that it hooks to - as I didn't have gravity assisting me as in Thor's technique. No underbench to work with.

In any event, it was pretty much a piece of cake compared to the thrash I went through replacing the takedown lever spring!

I had wanted to replace the recoil spring before a planned range trip this Sunday - and as I had broken a thumbnail at work today (Horrors! The humanity!

), I figured tonite was the nite to get this project out of the way!

01-02-2014, 11:49 PM	#1
Zorba User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Merritt Island, Fl Posts: 952 Thanks: 777 Thanked 528 Times in 290 Posts	Recoil spring replacement. When I ordered the new springs for my Nambu, I also ordered a new recoil spring for the Luger. I put it in tonite, using a hybrid approach of Thor's instructions, a YouTube video I found, and my own improvisation. My addition to the technique was to temporarily insert a spacer at the bottom of the spring to hold the hook up so I could hook it onto the do-dah that it hooks to - as I didn't have gravity assisting me as in Thor's technique. No underbench to work with. In any event, it was pretty much a piece of cake compared to the thrash I went through replacing the takedown lever spring! I had wanted to replace the recoil spring before a planned range trip this Sunday - and as I had broken a thumbnail at work today (Horrors! The humanity! ), I figured tonite was the nite to get this project out of the way!