Origonal 1892 Winchester question

[DDJ]

Did Winchester use the flat bar/leaf spring as the main spring all through its production or did they somewhere along the way switch to the coil over bar assembly that Rossi uses?
Thanks

[1Hawkeye]

As far as I know they stayed with the flat spring the whole time. It sounds like somebody might have tweaked it for cowboy shooting.

[Czech_too]

Homestead Parts shows 3 'kinds' of mainsprings for the '92, all flat springs.
http://www.homesteadparts.com/shopcart/140/Winchester_1892.htm
So based upon that, I'm gonna agree w/1Hawkeye

[LawrenceA]

All flat springs

[pietro]

Did Winchester use the flat bar/leaf spring as the main spring all through its production or did they somewhere along the way switch to the coil over bar assembly that Rossi uses?
Thanks


As above - but, if you've seen one, it's could be that somebody swapped in the coil spring setup from a Miroku/Winchester Model 1892.


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[DDJ]

As above - but, if you've seen one, it's could be that somebody swapped in the coil spring setup from a Miroku/Winchester Model 1892.


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Thanks for all of the replies. I thought it was flat bar all the way through but I was talking to a fellow at a recent gun show and he clams to have seen one with the coil over rod affair like the Rossis. It must have been some kind of conversion

[1Hawkeye]

Yep it was a conversion of some kind. Iv'e had 92's from first year production serial #388 up through the 1930's production and they all have had flat mainsprings. Maybe the new ones have a coil spring but the old ones didn't.

[bigted]

Yes the Miroku 1892 Winchesters have a coil spring over a spring strut.

Non of the original Winchester's had coil springs.

[missionary5155]

Greetings
I have looked at a bunch of old 1892s (owned 6) and all had the flat spring.
Mike in LLama Land