Main springs

[harry mac]

Every now and then my P14 sporter gives a light strike and I suspect it's due to a tired mainspring. Will the mainspring from a Lee Enfield fit and work?

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[browningautorifle]

Is this it? Springs for ENFIELD 1914 & 1917 Rifles & Shotguns

[WarPig1976]

The W.C. Wolff Co.

These are made about 20min from here and would you know they will not sell direct to the public off the street.

[Maxwell Smart]

Every now and then my P14 sporter gives a light strike and I suspect it's due to a tired mainspring. Will the mainspring from a Lee Enfield fit and work?

The P14 spring is larger diameter; I don't think that a Lee Enfield mainspring has a big enough inisde diameter to slide onto the P14 striker.

[Peter Laidler]

The engineer in me says that when you compress a spring, even a tired spring to the same load, every time, as you do with a rifle bolt, then it will exert the same released force each time. After all, a spring is simply a mechanical means of storing energy isn't it? A bit like an elastic band! So if it fires some caps and not others or is inconsistent, I suggest something else. After all, we now KNOW the loading on the tip of the striker will be constant

Nope....... I suggest different strength primers