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Originally Posted by Steve912
Rod length doesn't matter. It could be a foot long, and the excess would just wave around in front of the slide. The length of the compressed-coil-on-coil recoil spring + the thickness of the rod base is the determinant, as to whether the spring base area of frame ends up taking 100% of the slide momentum
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Just a slip of the keyboard on my post. If you look at my prior posts you will see that I have always addressed the distance between the two force flanges/ends of the assembly. I addressed that in more than one post and also tried to get folks to consider the preload of the installed spring system.
Please review my posts and see what I said when I was thinking and in my right mind.
Start with my discussion in post #85 and then move back up the ladder from there. I think I did properly address the appropriate measurement. I did, however, ask a needless question somewhere along the way, that is I wasn't sure where the ultimate slide stop was. I later found it and described it as a
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