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I bought a rather rough looking 1858 Remington by Navy Arms. Upon cleaning it I found that the previous owner had not cleaned it at all since shooting it. How ever, under the crud it doesn't look too bad so I may have a decent shooter.
It does have some trigger creep so I decided to take it apart and look inside. On doing so, a spring broke. This is the two fingered spring under the frame, one finger acts as trigger return, the other as bolt return. I don't think I did anything to break the spring, it just decided to let go.
On reassembly, I find that if I attempt to tighten the main spring screw (at bottom of grip front strap) all the way the spring will pull out from under the roller on the hammer. Is this normal or is something amiss here? Is it a matter of how deeply the spring is seated in the notch in the frame? With the screw not tightened all the way down all seems normal except for the screw head sticking up a bit.
First question is where is the best place to get a replacement spring. Do I need to think about a new mainspring?
The last question, is what's the proper manner to get rid of the creep? All of these single action revolvers seem to have a rather similar trigger, sear, notch, and hammer notch arrangement so that what applies to one probably applies to another. (I have a Colt style cap & ball that's incredibly creepy.)
It does have some trigger creep so I decided to take it apart and look inside. On doing so, a spring broke. This is the two fingered spring under the frame, one finger acts as trigger return, the other as bolt return. I don't think I did anything to break the spring, it just decided to let go.
On reassembly, I find that if I attempt to tighten the main spring screw (at bottom of grip front strap) all the way the spring will pull out from under the roller on the hammer. Is this normal or is something amiss here? Is it a matter of how deeply the spring is seated in the notch in the frame? With the screw not tightened all the way down all seems normal except for the screw head sticking up a bit.
First question is where is the best place to get a replacement spring. Do I need to think about a new mainspring?
The last question, is what's the proper manner to get rid of the creep? All of these single action revolvers seem to have a rather similar trigger, sear, notch, and hammer notch arrangement so that what applies to one probably applies to another. (I have a Colt style cap & ball that's incredibly creepy.)