Get your self some metal banding and make one.I've got a metal bender in the basement that I have used to make springs like that.It does radius and sharp bends.
Quote from: Privateer on March 10, 2023, 03:17:02 PMGet your self some metal banding and make one.I've got a metal bender in the basement that I have used to make springs like that.It does radius and sharp bends.Thanks for the suggestion. How do you cut out a precisely-sized square notch out of the one end?
Hello, this is my first post aside from the welcome message, so please bear with me. A fellow airgunner let me borrow one of his vintage airguns. It has one broken part which I would like to replace for him. It is a small, flat spring, about 3/4" long and about 1/4" wide. One side has a hole for a screw and the other side has a square notch cut out of the end. The spring has a bend in it near the screw hole. If anyone is familiar with the Diana 50M, it's the spring that locks the rear sight windage adjustment screw.Well, I asked around at some of the tooling shops around my town and online, but either no one wants to bother with me or it is a bit expensive.Does anyone have any ideas of who might be able to make a replacement spring?
Looks like the same spring used in rc car leaf springs. A set can be had on various places for a round 15 dollars.
You could just use a coil spring under the sight adjuster. hth
It looks to me like a feeler gauge that's been bent and shortened. Like has been said shape the end that engages the wheel with a Dremel.