VZ.58 Club:

[valnar]

I know the general answer to this question is "yes", but on the off chance that Vz.58 magazine springs are not as good....

Is it okay to leave a VZ.58 magazine loaded up for years with the spring compressed? Will it still function just the same?

 

[Maverick223]

I know the general answer to this question is "yes", but on the off chance that Vz.58 magazine springs are not as good....

Is it okay to leave a VZ.58 magazine loaded up for years with the spring compressed? Will it still function just the same?

valnar, I'm sorry for the late reply (I was on sabbatical, then super busy until lately), but I think you'll be just fine. I rarely use my 30rnd magazines and they seem to work just fine after being stored for a couple of years without any problems. My 20s get used a lot more, but they were made from the same components, so I doubt that they would fare any worse under long-term storage either.

What really wears out any spring is cycling it. I found this out the hard way with one of my Saiga-12 magazines just a week or so past when one of the springs broke into 4 (yes, 4) pieces!

 

[Swampman]

My VZ2008 recently passed the 1200 round mark and has started having "gremlin" problems where the striker/linear hammer is not grabbed by the trigger sear when the bolt goes forward.

Could someone that's had their VZ-58 bolt carrier "tabbed" please post some pictures of the finished product, preferably with a ruler in the pics for scale. Pics from multiple angles would be great.

Any additional information such as measured thickness and length of the tab and how it was attached (welded, silver soldered etc.) would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Swampman

 

[Arizona_Mike]

Hey guys I have a vz2008 and need help on the two leaf springs that make the trigger so damn heavy! I can't bend the right leaf spring down but everyone else make it sound like its so easy to bend down! Please help!

On the real select fire VZ58 the auto sear is the safety sear. Remove the auto sear to make the gun semi auto and you are left with a main sear that can bounce when the striker passes over it and may not settle in time to catch the striker on the bolt carrier's return forward. There is a pretty short distance between full recoil and the position on the sear on the return. As initially designed the auto sear would retain the striker until the bolt is fully closed giving the main sear plenty of time to bounce and settle down.

The patented "tab" prevents the bounce by holding down the disconnector during this entire interval. Because Century can no longer use the tab, their solution to "the Gremlin" was an extra wide main sear that engages both the main and auto leaves of the sear spring giving a 12lb trigger pull to suppress bounce.

I tore the auto leaf of the spring with needle nose pliers and reconditioned the remaining leaf enough to give a nice 4lb trigger pull. It was great until I got the Gremlin. I then had to send my bolt carrier out to be tabbed.

I would not have it and other way but modify your springs at your own risk!

Mike

 

[everydefense]

I had my Century tabbed before I ever shot it. Never had the Gremlin. Nice shooter- the wife even likes shooting it Trigger pull seems fairly light and clean, so mine must've been prior to their "12lb solution"...