This is a V Spring for the top lever on a 1889 Remington Hammer Gun 12ga. This is impossible to find, for me anyway, so I ended up jumping in to fabricate one. Here is after the first day of filing, grinding, bending:
Gunsmithing Making a Small Spring
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Re: Making a Small Spring
Do you have a website to find instructions for heat treating it to be springy? It does not look like spring steel and I thought spring steel was an alloy but it looks like you are going to heat treat it to be springy.
Do you have a website to find instructions for heat treating it to be springy? It does not look like spring steel and I thought spring steel was an alloy but it looks like you are going to heat treat it to be springy.
Re: Making a Small Spring
I used a retaining clip from a hitch pin, I think it will be springy enough. I don't know what spring steel looks like, so I don't know if this looks right or not?
I am going to heat treat it, and then draw it back.
This was my guideline:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16363237/Spring-Making
I used a retaining clip from a hitch pin, I think it will be springy enough. I don't know what spring steel looks like, so I don't know if this looks right or not?
This was my guideline:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16363237/Spring-Making
Re: Making a Small Spring
While you are heat treating you might want to anneal the original and weld it back together and re-heat treat it too. I did this to an M1 Garand clip just to play around. It worked quite well.
While you are heat treating you might want to anneal the original and weld it back together and re-heat treat it too. I did this to an M1 Garand clip just to play around. It worked quite well.
