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Originally Posted by Dave Wade
I took the firing pins out. They are free-floating and don't use springs.
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That's interesting. I am asking out of pure interest in old designs. The pictures from the side of the hammers and firing pins show the hammers in a slightly retracted position and one pin in and one out. Are the hammers rebounding or are they resting on a half cock notch. Either way it seems odd that both pins are not fully down with no springs. One maybe more lose than the other. When you had the pins out, did it look like the pin was designed such that a spring would work? It wouldn't be the first old double where someone simply removed and tossed broken springs. I have several old doubles of early 1870s vintage that have half cock notches and no pin springs and the procedure to reload requires a manual half cock before opening to keep from jambing the pins in the primer. Just wondering about the design.
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