Busted main spring!

[Nath]

A few months ago I noticed my Pedersoli trade gun had broken its main spring.
After checking the price of a new one and feeling the blood draining from my wallet I set to welding it!

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I didn't lose much of its strength and with some fiddling I got it to spark again. Not as reliable as it was but light up again it does. So much so I went and got me a rabbit and a fox with it.

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I'm not to happy with it though. I need a new one. I have one on order, I just got to get this trade gun back to super reliable.
I took the first pheasant of our season this time with it just before the main spring broke.

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N.

[GunnyMack]

Good ya could fix it but without a reheat treating the spring it won't be right.
Good ol Jess!

[Nath]

Good ya could fix it but without a reheat treating the spring it won't be right.
Good ol Jess!

Sure, you are correct.
I got it to work by adding shims in the heel of the spring.
If there was no chance of a new one I would quench it in old engine oil, polish it up and draw it back to a plum colour.

[GunnyMack]

Thankfully you can get a replacement, did you happen to order a spare as well?

[piller]

If it happened to one I owned, I would tate the spring to a RenFest and have one of the smiths there fix it. Our local RenFest is coming in a month.

[Bill in Oregon]

Nath, that is such a lovely flinter -- and thanks for sharing another glimpse of Jess!

[Nath]

Thanks, there is no like button on here is there, I forgot....
Lol, no I have not ordered a spare as well as a replacement, to expensive.
When I have even less time I will make one.

[Nath]

Nath, that is such a lovely flinter -- and thanks for sharing another glimpse of Jess!

Hi Bill.
It's a shame I can't put the short videos of her "getting stuck in" on!

[new pig hunter]

Nath knows his way around springs !!

About 3 years ago I was having trouble with the operation of my Marlin 990 semi-auto .22LR rifle. He said, "just replace the spring."

So I did ...... and the 990 has worked just fine ever since !!!!

[Nath]

[Sixgun]

Nice pics Nath...you always take nice ones.....your fox looks like it's sleeping.......your best are when your holding up the fox and gritting your teeth at it.

Geeze, how much can a spring cost? It's just a common V spring, can't find a used one locally?---006

[Nath]

Nice pics Nath...you always take nice ones.....your fox looks like it's sleeping.......your best are when your holding up the fox and gritting your teeth at it.

Geeze, how much can a spring cost? It's just a common V spring, can't find a used one locally?---006

In the UK! The most anti firearm country in the world! Where shooting folk are a sub culture!

I'll email the useless importer again....no, I will phone the dopey .......rascals.