Odd Broken Bolt Spring

[Fox Creek Kid]

I was handling my 1860 RM conversion the other day when I noticed that it felt as if the second notch on the hammer cock was almost non-existant. Then the cylinder went almost free play. I had had the latter happen before when a bolt spring broke on a '60 percussion years ago. After dismantling the gun it became evident that the bolt spring had split completely in two on the inner part of the rear curve. Odd, I thought, then again I've only had one ever break in years of shooting and that was on an arm of the spring. I asked a gunsmith buddy and he said that inexplicably he'd seen this happen lately on a few other Uberti guns. 

[St. George]

When you get that new spring - if you drill/file a small circular hole at the split - it'll make the spring work more efficiently.

Good Luck.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Fox Creek Kid]

You know, I had read that years ago & for the life of me couldn't remember that when I showed the spring to my 'smith.  Thanks. 

[Delmonico]

Any scratches one can see on a spring with the naked eye should also be polished out with croucus cloth.  Those can also turn into cracks on the highly tempered steel.

[Fox Creek Kid]

Two reasons I don't like the wire bolt springs.

1. They don't have the original feel or "snap" of the regular spring.

2.  In some guns they give a dangerously light trigger pull.

[St. George]

A big part of the attraction of C&WAS is the use and firing of nineteenth-century firearms - the way they were meant to be used.

A coil spring obviates that.

A well-made flat spring works just fine for what the original manufacturer intended - they seldom break, and are easy to replace, should they do so.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!