Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
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Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
Those of you shooting old time top break rifles and shotguns might find interest in this article I wrote.
Yesterday while shooting trap (I was 21 of 22) my top lever leaf spring broke. UGH!
I've tried to find a replacement from Wisner and Robert Storms in AZ to no luck...
So I decided to convert it to coil spring.
Wrote an article with pictures on my web site.
http://www.rvbprecision.com
Hope you like it!
Yesterday while shooting trap (I was 21 of 22) my top lever leaf spring broke. UGH!
I've tried to find a replacement from Wisner and Robert Storms in AZ to no luck...
So I decided to convert it to coil spring.
Wrote an article with pictures on my web site.
http://www.rvbprecision.com
Hope you like it!
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Good job! I really enjoy and appreciate you posting your projects here!
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
Plus one.....
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Thanks! It’s a labor of love...just love tinkering
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Here i was thinking you were posting about Jeep CJ’s.
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
Thats nice work. How many hours do you figure you have into the conversion. Todd
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
A similar spring on my circa 1900 Parker Damascus 20 gauge broke when I was a teenager (long ago and far away in Borger, Texas) and I took the gun to a local gunsmith. He made a new leaf spring to replace the broken one.
After buying Parker reproductions in 20 and 12 gauge made in Japan, I only shoot the Damascus gun a few times a year now and the spring is still intact.
Thank goodness for competent gunsmiths!
After buying Parker reproductions in 20 and 12 gauge made in Japan, I only shoot the Damascus gun a few times a year now and the spring is still intact.
Thank goodness for competent gunsmiths!
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
This was rather quickly. Less than two hours. A good 45 minutes figuring out WHAT to do.How many hours do you figure you have into the conversion.
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
I made 1 flat spring while in school, I don't remember all the details but we forged the stock, then shaped /fit before heat treat in oil and temper in molten lead. Happy to say my spring didn't break!
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Typical Roy - nice going, pardner !
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Typical Roy - nice going, pardner !
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Your projects are always interesting, and THANKS so much for sharing them.
In another life I think I was talented enough to do such things, but in this life, I'm just a 'follower' - still pretty cool to read about them, and think about 'someday....if I live long enough, and have the time, and the patience, and could LEARN all the stuff to do those things'....
In another life I think I was talented enough to do such things, but in this life, I'm just a 'follower' - still pretty cool to read about them, and think about 'someday....if I live long enough, and have the time, and the patience, and could LEARN all the stuff to do those things'....
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
Thanks for sharing. As a tinkerer of SAAs and old Winchesters there was a time when I made a few leaf springs but I've never tried one of those folded ones. Good looking fix. My congratulations.
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Doing it that way, it should be able to cut buggy axles.
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Griff,
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AND... I'm over it!!
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
I guess no one caught my Richtig remark. He was a blacksmith who supposedly used molten lead to temper his knives after the quench. His actual method is not really known, but his knives were known to be pounded with a hammer to cut up horseshoes and immediately after cutting through the horseshoe they would shave paper.
Thread drift over.
Thread drift over.
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Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
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Re: Leaf Spring To Coil Spring Conversion
Here's my spring and the small parts vise it goes to
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