Good Source for Small Springs - The uBICuitous BIC Lighters

[Moke]

The uBICuitous  BIC Lighters.... Plastic cigarette lighters, and/or, other lighters; they all have springs.

Yep, they are everywhere, and cheap.  If you are a smoker, or, know one, grab their old dead lighters and tear them down.  I keep a bunch of them in an old empty pellet tin. You just never know when you'll need something like them.

Example, and why I posted,.... I just used one as a replacement spring for a lost stock locking button on my Crosman 2289/13xx

[happymecanic]

Good suggestion. I'm an ex-smoker, and I've kept so much of both springs inside these lighters, I must have a lifetime supply lol! The smaller one (for the flint) makes an excellent replacement for a lost safety spring in the 13xx/22xx pistols. Other cheap tranparent lighters have different size small springs, and small Orings too. And don't forget to check into your old pens too!

[Novagun]

Lighters and BIC ball point pens. And an other junk you are about to dump .

I have a drawer full of springs and none of them fit the job I want them to do.

[Rick67]

There was a particular brand of cheapo disposable lighter in the Philippines that had thin O-rings, perfect for the Crosman transfer port; you put it on top of the TP to create a much better seal, especially if you have a steel breech.

It also had a very thin, threadlike, one and extremely small that was perfect for bolt probes;  that one you put behind your existing probe O-ring, thereby creating a much better seal and lock-up.

 It was perfect for the .177 caliber, although I really never had a .22 13xx/22xx…