Mauser 1910

[CleanHarry]

Had a few light strikes or maybe hard primers when I shot My latest acquisition.

Decided to get the service Pak from Wolff. They say it is for the 1910/1934 pistols. Well....

I think there were some changes from my model and the one they used to make the springs for. I mostly wanted the striker spring, but it does not fit. The OD of the spring is too big to fit into the back of the striker, making the spring too long to compress enough to lock back the slide for assembly. It started out longer than the original anyway... Then when you add the half-an-inch that should have slipped into the striker... No work-ee.

The recoil spring is also substantially longer than the original, to the point where it makes the slide stiffer to rack.

Anybody have any experience with these particular Wolff springs on this particular gun? I have an early serial number 10063, and it appears by the diagram Wolff used that some changes were made.

 

[tark]

Are you sure you got the right service pak? There are two, one for 25 Auto and one for 32 auto. If you have a 25, none of the springs for a 32 will fit. If you ordered the right one, make sure they actually SENT you the right one! Wolff sometimes goofs, just like anybody else!

 

[CleanHarry]

Yeah, I think the right one

When I spoke to the nice lady, she gave me the dimensions of the springs that should be in the "stock #69211, pistol service pack type one, for use in the Mauser 1910/1934, 6.35 mm (that's directly off of the package)"

She gave me a .190 OD on the striker spring, but it needs to be .160 to be able to fit into the back of the striker.

Fast forward... Called Numrich today, asked for dimensions on their striker spring and, yep... Theirs is .160 OD. Their recoil spring is also the proper length.

When you think about it, I can't blame them for making springs that fit hundreds of thousands of guns. They just don't fit my early serial number (10063).

I think I remember seeing that changes were made at ~61000, which would make sense.

Thanks for your input!

 

[tark]

Darn, clean harry, don't know what to tell you now! You may be screwed....(springed?) This boarders on "Bubbaism" but is there enough metal on the striker to bore it out to .190? Would everything else clear if you did? Possibly, the new spring can be made to work in this manner. If not, a good Smith can literally make you a new spring, using a .160 drill rod and wrapping spring stock around it. (Well, the rod would have to be smaller so the finished spring would be .160, but you get the idea,) As a last ditch effort you could always go through a pile of springs until you found one that might work.

I wish you luck. I had a 1910 once and it shot very accurately. I liked the magazine too, I think it held eight or maybe nine rounds.

 

[CleanHarry]

Ah, but I'm not SPRINGED!

Tark, Dude, I guess I failed to mention I bought the ones from Numrich.

I wonder how the goof is happening at Wolff, though. Hope they can get it straightened out.

Somebody needs to do some research into what the 1910 really needs, I guess.

Thanks for you input!

 

[tark]

Fantastic! Good shooting.