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I have replaced one of the firing pins from my 1879 Parker Underlifter with a pin made by Dave Purnell. My springs were very rusty and I at the time thought about replacing them. I am glad to know where to find them. What year is you underlifter?
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08-20-2010, 06:22 PM | #4 | ||||||
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My two 'Lifters' are 1877 (12 gauge) and 1879 vintage (10 gauge).
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08-20-2010, 09:17 PM | #5 | ||||||
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I ordered the springs from Granger
Thanks Pat |
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08-20-2010, 11:40 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Let us know how they worked, Pat. I was very pleased with my results. The original springs had the ends twisted into a 'pad' of sorts. The lack of the 'pad' on the Grainger springs was of no consequence. Cheers!
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11-06-2010, 10:11 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Mark, I am running into some interesting problems, First I talked to Austin about springs in guns with solid head plungers, seems my guns below 50,000 ser# have no springs,above 50000 they do. Austins guns seem to be the same. Now that said I tried to put a spring in a 36000 # gun and even cutting down to one coil, I did not have enough travel in the firing pin to engage the primer in the shell, Could it be that some of the later solid head plungers were longer than the early ones? I also checked both firing pins Identical lenght, so I ruled out broken or chipped pin. Maybe some of the hammer guys can measure the pins in said ser# range. I will ckeck also.
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11-06-2010, 10:20 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Gary, my 2 Lifters (10250 and 15728) have the stepped/crooked firing pins held in place with the threaded bushing. The guns had springs that were not real stout. They seemed to provide just enough tension to withdraw the firing pin after the hammer rebounded. The springs all had a little 'pad' on each end where someone used needle nosed pliers and made each end coil smaller than the rest of the spring. The large lifter plunger spring in both guns had the same little twisted pad, too.
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11-06-2010, 10:14 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Just to let you know I checked for any broken spring residue inthe gun
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11-06-2010, 10:57 AM | #10 | ||||||
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Start a new topic and you should get some answers
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