hand and spring

[dennis benedict]

I would like to know if the spring on a hand and spring part of a cap and ball revolver be replaced on my own or does the spring have to be ordered with the hand from the factory? Dennis.

 

[erzengel]

For my Rogers & Spencer, hand and spring though they are two parts are only as hand assembly from the manufacturer available.

Might be that at a special shop in Germany the parts are seperat available but I doubt it. That would require a phone call to check it out.

 

[biliff]

VTI sells the springs as a separate part.

VTI

Given the cost of shipping, you might want to order some other spare parts along with it.

 

[Zonie]

Given the cost of shipping, if it were me I would order the completely assembled hand and spring.
Maybe order two of them so when I screwed up adjusting the length of one of them to get the cylinder to rotate correctly I would have another one to fix my fix. :grin:

 

[Robert an saa fan]

When I was young and encountered broken hand springs, I replaced several with ones made from plain bobby pins (hairpins). Worked as a short term repair.

Use the contours/shape of the original broken spring as a pattern to make your best copy out of part of the bobby pin.

Sometimes you can drift out any remnant of the old spring from the hand's spring slot. Sometimes you have to pry the spring slot open to free the old spring piece. If needed you can pry apart the spring slot in the hand with a thin blade knife (use a knife you do not care about as you may damage the blade). Stake the replacement spring in.

Your old spring might have had too much bend in it for the bobby pin fix to work... kinda depends on the hand slot in the frame also... but fix did work on several revolvers for me as a short term repair.

There is the danger of breaking off the hand area to the rear of the spring slot... I was fortunate and did not break a hand.

Whether you make or buy the spring it is good to use the original hand if it cycled the cylinder properly.

 

[dennis benedict]

Thank you all for your help. I do have some spring steel binding and I was going to try that. The bobby pin is a great idea as well. Thank you again. Dennis.