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Can someone with please explain how the trigger spring tool is used?
I have the trigger spring tool but from my unskilled take on it the twist tie was much simpler use. Compressing the spring into that tool was a job. I guess I just don't understand how it is set up and used for the rebuild.
I used a soft covered twist tie to keep the trigger spring in place and also to hold the hammer forward while replacing the hammer spring/plunger.
The correct tool pushes in from the rear of the mech through the hole provided. It captures and compresses the spring and then you lift the front loop out of the trigger and withdraw. Is that what you ask?
I'm not sure what I'm asking. But from your response I guess it is strictly for disassembling the trigger?
Works in reverse to install the trigger spring. After a few tries it is very easy.
I only use it to install the spring. It falls out during trigger disassembly, and no tool is needed.
. . . . and, I've found that you don't really gain anything by trying to turn the tool as some sources suggest. - Bob
I've never used the tool, mainly since I don't have one, but can see it making the job easier. I simply rest the bottom part on the spring on the opening of the hole and compress the top part down with my fingers to get it started in the hole. Once I get the spring in a certain position, I take the operating spring guide and drag it through the hole to its intended destination. One may need to take the guide to manipulate the top part of the spring to get it through the hole though since I've noticed some holes were deburred better than others. Usually this takes about 3 minutes to do, but have done it in less. The only trigger springs I've had serious issues with are the ones attributed to NPM. They have the upper extended legs and I can see the tool doing a much better job perhaps than my technique.
Some guys just use an empty cartridge. Some use a slave pin that pushes out with the real pin when the trigger is in position.
Some use half of a ball point pen.
With a tool, of any kind, 30 seconds max.
And I'm still using those same ole cut off bic pens with the guts pulled out.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimF4M1s
Work great and keeps my overhead $$ down !!
Charlie-Painter777
Hey, it's about time you stopped by here! The carbine forum is a bit slow lately. Stick around for awhile this time if you can, and get us going again with some of your usual "lessons." I bet you still haven't got around to trying that N-14 bolt! :D - Bob
Anyone remember the good old days, when the Bic pen motto was: "Works First Time, Every Time"?
Bob,
I remember that, wasn't it "Writes first time, every time"
Yup, I remember them loading a solid barrel pen into a 30-06 cartridge and blasting it through a board. Then taking the board in hand they wrote on a piece of paper to show it still worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by USGI
Yes, I think that's it exactly. :thup: Thanks! - BobQuote:
Originally Posted by JimF4M1s
As kids we took the empty brass ball-point pen refills, cooked the ink out of them and painstakingly loaded them with match heads and caps. Then it would be placed inside a piece of pipe and lit off. Pretty good little rocket. I still have a blue spot on my left palm where the ball blew out of one and lodged under my skin. I guess if I ever get in a MRI that steel ball is coming back out! Its a wonder any of us still have both eyes.
Good thing our grandkids aren't reading this. I did a similar thing. When I emptied the CO2 cartridges in my pellet pistol I'd cut off the end. Then pack it with wooden match heads. If your cut your Dad's aluminum lawn chair you got a tube the was a perfect fit. Lighting that it would go about a half mile just like a rocket. We had a walnut orchard for a back yard and I aimed it over the trees. The reason I know the distance. The next day I was at our local mom & pop grocery and I head them talking about a metal thing that broke out the rear window of their car in the parking lot. It was a half mile away, opps. How many of us used mom's wooden clothes pins and shot wooden matches that lit as they left? Different times in the 50's. No, I wasn't a model child.Quote:
Originally Posted by INLAND44
I used my 177 air rifle to shoot wooden matches...and they'd go off with a crack when they hit. Surprised I didn't start the world on fire.
Just read the above stories and believe I could probably equal or better those told so far! I'm not going to tell any, but most of them left a lasting impression and/or an injury of some kind. I'm glad I grew up in the 50's and experienced those things, just like you guys did. I think those us of that survived are wiser because of it than most of the kids today, many whose experience is mainly from hand held electronic devices and video games. - Bob
Hear hear Bob. Loved growing up in the fifties and sixties. Now will any of you admit to remember Miss Chambers doing the Ivory Snow commercials
Guys I think we better reverse our direction away from the green door before it get's out of hand, and head back to carbines.
Like Del, I don't use one because I don't have one. I got used to and pretty good at just using my fingers :)
One more please; Crossman pellet Pistol and large pistol primers!
I have two different lengths, picked up over the years.
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First time I read this. Did the same with CO2 cartridges and match heads. My co worker is missing his left hand. He did the same thing but used strike anywhere matches. Turned his hand into red mist. He also lit off a USGI red smoke grenade in the house. I'm just lucky I guess.
Dave
That would change the color of the curtains...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wineman