BHM - when all else fails use the bigger hammer methodology.
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BHM - when all else fails use the bigger hammer methodology.
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Ralph Tremaine
Ralph Tremaine
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Now Ralph, you know that you are going to miss adding to this thread.
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Ralph Tremaine
Ralph Tremaine
mmaher94087
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rhmc24
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I'll chime in with my own fix mis-information based on owning about 12 of these .44 DA top breaks. I had one with no spring tension pushing the latch. Took it apart & found no spring --- missing. Took a good one apart to see what it looked like & decided all I needed was the spring. Out of the 100s of miscellaneous springs I have, nothing was right. I used a piece of spring that would give some push & put it back together. Too weak but it works till I can find a better spring ---->
Hard to gauge how big that spring is, but looks like a shortened rebound slide spring (trigger return) would work.
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Now you see, that's the trouble with these threads that go on forever---we forget stuff. Post #42 provides all the information "to gauge how big that spring is"---never mind the spring pictured is almost certainly an original, and that in post #42 is likewise "almost certainly" simply one that works.
It would be a relatively small task to confirm that one way or the other, but I have to go make short grass. So I'll leave you with this little tid-bit (which you already know): Any spring which will fit over the post on the cam and into the hole in the barrel will do just fine---after some scientific fitting (known as "cut and try")--and then maybe cut some more---or say a few bad words, and start over with a new (and longer) spring.
Ralph Tremaine
And Guy's probably right about a rebound slide spring. It wouldn't fit very well, but it'd likely work.
Now you see, that's the trouble with these threads that go on forever---we forget stuff. Post #42 provides all the information "to gauge how big that spring is"---never mind the spring pictured is almost certainly an original, and that in post #42 is likewise "almost certainly" simply one that works.
It would be a relatively small task to confirm that one way or the other, but I have to go make short grass. So I'll leave you with this little tid-bit (which you already know): Any spring which will fit over the post on the cam and into the hole in the barrel will do just fine---after some scientific fitting (known as "cut and try")--and then maybe cut some more---or say a few bad words, and start over with a new (and longer) spring.
Ralph Tremaine
And Guy's probably right about a rebound slide spring. It wouldn't fit very well, but it'd likely work.
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