Top Lever Spring

Harry Collins · 11-24-2010, 02:10 PM

David,

The top lever spring for the hammer gun is longer than the hammerless version. Be sure to save the pieces of the old spring as a guide in cutting down the new spring to fit. I reduce the size of the top lever spring on a grinder, but a word of caution to grind the length of the spring not up and down the short side. If you do the latter it will, I am told, cause the spring to break. Dixie Gun Works has both hammer and hammerless springs for about $5.00 each and I have had great luck with them. I have ground them down to fit in about ten min. Parker used three sizes of top lever springs and I have had to reduce the size of a hammergun spring to fit some hammerless Parkers. Small needle nose vice grips are worth their weight in gold for this operation.

Harry

Autumn Daze · 11-24-2010, 02:14 PM

Harry, I did not know there were three different top lever springs. Am I to assume that the difference was..Lifter,toplever and hammerless? Thanks for the education.

David Lien · 11-24-2010, 05:46 PM

Thanks Harry for the information on the different lengths of springs. I can not remember where I got the last spring.(to many birthday parties). I do remember going to the local machine shop and fitting the spring with the use of an old Souix valve grinder with a wet grinding wheel(oil cooled). The machinest gave me a lecture on not getting the spring hot. He said that HEAT was the death knell for a spring. That gun is still working and it has been shot many times. Could it be that today's spring steels are of a better quality than the spring steels of 100+ years ago??? Thanks again Harry, I enjoy and I am in awe of the technical posts that appear on this site.
David Lien

M Vollinger · 11-25-2010, 07:23 AM

Folks,
I have a quick question. I have had the top lever spring replaced which required reworking the Galazan replacement spring. Can tension on a top lever spring be adjusted other than grinding the spring?

I took another gun to a local shop for re-assembly. I cleaned the action, put a very small amount of gun grease on the bolt lever. When I picked the gun up yesterday the top lever has an unusual amount of resistance.

Your take? Top lever spring problem or the bolt lever needing to be checked?
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