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Help, J Henry and son plains rifle 45 cal( 453) parts source or advice has broken sear spring

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I have had good results making replacement sear springs by cold working the steel banding straps from pallets. You can "wrap" the banding around a heavy nail with channel locks a step at a time. It will cut with a file and can be cut with a fine hacksaw blade. There is a learning curve to working with it but the material is usually free so a few scrap parts as you learn are no problem.











' the banding around a veavy nail
 
If you have measurements on the sear spring I’ll see what I have.
Screw diameter
Height of the screw boss
Distance to tab
Length of tab
Spread of spring.
 
Height .182 in, screw diameter. .133 distance to tab.396 length of tab.186 spread is unknown pieces missing. I will try to post picture
 

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I had Jeff Miller make me a new main spring for $55 bucks on an old dueling pistol.

Let me know if you need contact info.

Fleener
 
I've removed the parts but half of the sear spring is missing wasn't in the stock someone else's hands had been in it before it came to me. Thanks.
 
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