Help with a broken sear spring.

Not sure if this is the right place for this or not, but I’m looking for someone to make a new sear spring for me. It’s a custom lock so no one has an off shelf fit. I talked to log cabin shop and they are 10 weeks out! I can not have this gun out of service for 10 weeks! Can anyone help or know of someone who could!

Thank you,
Mike

In the past I've made sear springs out of high carbon hacksaw blades... If you have some files and a means to heat the metal you could use the old one as a pattern. Once the blade is annealed, you can cut it with a good set of tin snips, file to final shape then heat to make the bends. The tricky part is hardening then tempering the spring, but with such a small spring even a propane torch would work.

Buy some spring steel from TOW, and make your own.
You can literally cut it with tin snips, bend and shape as needed, harden and temper. This is not a heavy spring.

A siler spring may work. Having some pictures would be helpful.

I’d offer but you didn’t give any information on this spring other then custom. A photo could change my mind.

Phil Coffins said:

I’d offer but you didn’t give any information on this spring other then custom. A photo could change my mind.

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Let me see if I can dig up a photo of the lock. I’m at work now until Thursday. It’s on a hawken style rifle it is a very well built home made lock.

Here is a photo of the lock, just the exterior however. The rifle in question is the lightest in the photo the one with the sling.

Lawnmower recoil spring material works well also.

Then send me the lock with broken spring and I’ll make one and fit it then mail it back the next day. This express service to include postage, handling, shop fee, labor, materials and taxes will be $40 . I’m assuming you qualify for the veterans discount, Dad always told me the treat the medic and cooks well.

Phil Coffins said:

Then send me the lock with broken spring and I’ll make one and fit it then mail it back the next day. This express service to include postage, handling, shop fee, labor, materials and taxes will be $40 . I’m assuming you qualify for the veterans discount, Dad always told me the treat the medic and cooks well.

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Phil, that would be great! I’m going to PM you and follow up!

The tiine from a metal rake will work, as will the coil spring from a mouse trap, once you reshape it. I've done both as temporary fixes. The mousetrap spring is still in place and it's been 2 years.

Rawhide67 said:

The time from a metal rake will work, as will the coil spring from a mouse trap, once you reshape it. I've done both as temporary fixes. The mousetrap spring is still in place and it's been 2 years.

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I've done that a few times for folks at rendezvous who needed quick & reliable fixes.
relic shooter

Phil Coffins said:

I’d offer but you didn’t give any information on this spring other then custom. A photo could change my mind.

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Hello, I have been snooping around looking for a solution with my snapped sear spring. I have a 70's euroarms kentuckian rifle with a recent snapped sear spring. It's a flat style spring and I haven't been successful finding a replacement so far. I'm thinking it may be a custom job now. I'm not willing to try making it myself and it sounds like you may be able. I have attached pics.

Dixie Gun Works used to sell generic replacement sear springs with a long piece on the side that could be trimmed to fit the slot in the lockplate. They may still be available.

Easy to make

I'll take a look for that....thanks

JaWiVi said:

Hello, I have been snooping around looking for a solution with my snapped sear spring. I have a 70's euroarms kentuckian rifle with a recent snapped sear spring. It's a flat style spring and I haven't been successful finding a replacement so far. I'm thinking it may be a custom job now. I'm not willing to try making it myself and it sounds like you may be able. I have attached pics.

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If Dixie no longer has the generic spring that EC121 mentioned, they do have spring material of various thickness and a good starter book on spring making called Simplified V Springs by Kit Ravenshear.

Hacksaw blade spring: Aneal by heating it red hot in the forge, then let it cool slowly by covering it up with coal and letting the fire go out. Once it is annealed, you can bend and shape as necessary. When it is a duplicate of the original, heat to cherry red and quench in oil. Temper by dipping in sawdust and then burn it off. This is one way they used to temper small springs back in the day.

No guarantees. Your mileage may vary. That said, whatcha got to loose but an old hacksaw blade and a little time?

I wound up making my own spring and it turned out good! My advice is get goog steel to start something high carbon to start. After some tried and failed attempts on some old hacksaw blades I went in the parts bin and found an old mauser leaf spring and this is what I used for the final spring. First soften or aneal the metal the shape it to your spring shape. Then reharden the spring. Finally you need to draw some of the hardness off of that newly hardened spring or it will snap. Heat hardened part to a royal blue color 560-600 degree and then let air cool. Worked well for me! I will post photos the repair I made shortly.

Here are some quick shots of the fixed spring. Not the prettiest but it is working quite well!