How Do You Change The Hammer Spring?

On what, exactly?

Take the strut out of the trigger. Take a salad fork , side it onto the strut and spring and compress the spring , remove c clip, let pressure off slowly, remove spring.
Nows a good time to polish the strut , both sides and edges,
put new spring on , compress with salad fork , put c clip on. Put back into trigge with slot in c clip pointed up.

Relieve the spring pressure on the strut and remove the round keeper from it's slot in the strut.

HTH,
Bill

now that you have a couple of replies on how to swap the spring...may I ask why you want to?

are you having ignition issues?

or are you perhaps doing a 17Mach2 build, and need something heavier?...I ask because that's been the only time I've wanted to swap my hammer spring, and I've never even heard of one breaking and needing to be replaced, and I've seen some real high round count rifles...so I'm just a bit curious

Thanks to all who offered helpful suggestions. I especially liked the tip to use a salad fork. I want to try the hammer spring that came with my trigger pull upgrade kit.

crackedcornish said:

that's understandable...


which kit did you pick up?

I've just been doing BX's in Pike Arms alloy trigger housing lately...they're OK, but nothing extreme...they were costing me about $100 for a complete trigger assembly

but since prices have gone way up at Pike, I think the next time I need a trigger, I might finally break down, and go KIDD...

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I have been using the KIDD 3.5 x 3.5 2 stage. Yummy!

I have installed trigger pull upgrade kits from Volquartsen and Power Custom.

EdSy said:

I especially liked the tip to use a salad fork.

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That sounds like a better option than using a pair of pliers to compress the spring but for the life of me, I don't see it mentioned anywhere in this thread.

Bill

BCR1 said:

That sounds like a better option than using a pair of pliers to compress the spring but for the life of me, I don't see it mentioned anywhere in this thread.

Bill

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Post #4.

Used forks in the past to compress several strut hammer springs. Good advice Toomany