• Ha, I could probably muddle through it but I thought brake springs needed to be heat tempered? Think thats beyond my kitchen counter tooling.

    Unless I can find a source of Tektro spares I'm just going to hold out to see if I can fettle the DC springs

  • I thought brake springs needed to be heat tempered? Think thats beyond my kitchen counter tooling.

    Getting the right steel to spring temper isn't beyond the reach of home gamers. There's plenty of advice in the gun-smithing world, those people are constantly making replacement springs for things which haven't been manufactured for over a century.

  • Not sure what triangulation of profiling is required for Googling home made gun parts to land you on a watch list, so ... I'm out.

  • Most prewar shotgun springs were pretty much homemade. Most work was subcontracted out with only the assembly and fettling done by the retailer.

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