Converting a CVA Cap Lock Kentucky Pistol

[ulav8r]

Do you think you can make yourself a new spring.
Shaping it should be fairly easy if you can find some hardened metal that is almost the same thickness.
Like a old hacksaw or SawsAll blade.
That metal can be heated to red hot.
Bent to shape.
Then tempered by heating it to about 600 degrees and then letting it cool slowly.
It might be something worth playing with since the spring you already have sort of works.
So you know the size , shape and thickness for what you have to duplicate.
For some locks, I made flat main springs out of old Skill Saw blade metal.
And Sear springs out of those black paper binder clip metal

You left out a step. After shaping, heat to red and quench. Then temper.

[ulav8r]

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[LAGS]

You are correct.
Thank you for mentioning that.
But remember.
Quench in oil.
Not water

[Boerrancher]

I’ve put the project on the back burner for now. I will keep tinkering with it when time permits.

[LAGS]

I sort of have to put my Hybrid on the back burner for a couple weeks.
But it is looking good and will get finished.