P95Carry
Moderator Emeritus
Just musing (happens a lot as you get older! ) ..... What is the one component category most crucial to the satisfactory functioning of a firearm? Any firearm.
Strikes me that the humble spring has to take the first place in that category. It might be the simplest of leaf springs in an old muzzle loader ... or one of several in a more modern rifle trigger group.
Progress to handguns and we'll find not only mainsprings but, trigger return springs, mag' springs ... mag catch springs .. cyl latch springs .... so many... and most probably now helical compression types for the most part.
Failure sometimes of just one..... even a small return spring can and usually will lead to malfunction. I admire the guys in early days of gun building .. who could make springs that still survive to this day. From my experience, making of springs ... flat in particular - is less a science than a black art!!
Let's hear it for the spring!!
Strikes me that the humble spring has to take the first place in that category. It might be the simplest of leaf springs in an old muzzle loader ... or one of several in a more modern rifle trigger group.
Progress to handguns and we'll find not only mainsprings but, trigger return springs, mag' springs ... mag catch springs .. cyl latch springs .... so many... and most probably now helical compression types for the most part.
Failure sometimes of just one..... even a small return spring can and usually will lead to malfunction. I admire the guys in early days of gun building .. who could make springs that still survive to this day. From my experience, making of springs ... flat in particular - is less a science than a black art!!
Let's hear it for the spring!!