Recuperator spring test revisited
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heckinohio
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Recuperator spring test revisited
My other post here asks about specifications for recuperator spring (barrel return assembly). I have tested mine in a most rudimentary fashion since no one had offered the correct proceedure or specicications. Gun #5895 was stood on a bath scale vertically w/flasher/booster removed. Scale stated 24lbs. Shouldering the gun in the normal shooting posture and pushing slowly downward revealed it took 25lbs to compress the recuperator. Gun #111m took 15lbs. This indicated that #111m was weak (and/or #5895 was too stiff). I had another assembly that Bob N. had rebuilt some time ago. I installed that assembly and it registered 30lbs. Still a 16% (is 5lbs 16% of 30?) difference but much closer in actual required effort to compress. I will test fire both guns today if whather and ditching project allow. Results asap........... Can someone else run this same test and see what the differences might be?????????
Last edited by heckinohio on Sat May 14, 2005 11:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
There are no bad guns!!!!!!!!!