colt d frame spring question

[elginrunner]

Hello all,

I'm refinishing a colt agent for my brother. During dis assembly, the bolt stop spring got launched into another dimension... I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have the specs?? I have numerous spring packs from brownells, I may have the correct size....

Any help would be appreciated.....

Brock in Arkansas

[A1A]

Welcome to the forum. Although it is not a strength/weight spec, it measures approximately 3/8" long, 1/16" dia and has 12 coils as shown in this Numrich listing Bolt Spring. If you can't match it successfully, they are available as shown from Numrich , but also other places for a bit less. HTH

[elginrunner]

thanks very much, I wasn't aware that gun parts corp had that type of info...

[capstan]

Elginrinner, Ive lost a few springs like that a few times also. I have one of those nail magnet tools that I use to find them. It has a flat magnet at the end of a telescoping rod. The magnet is about the width of a sponge mop. If you drag across carpet or anything, if it goes over the apring it will pick it up. I used it to pick up roofing nails in the grass and dirt after a roof job. It works great for finding tiny lost springs as well just takes some time though.

[elginrunner]

I've found lots of springs and detent balls like that as well over the years... Like a numb skull I wasn't working in my usual work place like I should have been, but my desk in the "hobby room". The hobby room is the most cluttered of my gun stuff, and my wife's sewing, in one very large room. The bad thing is I blinked when it sprung and don't even have a direction of travel, a radio was going so I didn't hear anything when it landed. As far as I know it's still in the air!!

[Collects]

Please delete this inadvertent double post, Administrator.

[Collects]

The best way to find misplaced small gun parts is to walk around the area barefooted.

I find the part when it pokes a small hole in my foot, usually bending the part.

I hop around one-footed for a while saying unrepeatable things, then I pick the part out of my foot, clean the drop of blood off the part, bend it back into shape and try to put it back into the gun. Commonly, I try to reinstall it upside down or backwards because I have no idea how or where it fits. Of course, the part will not fit.

Then I call my friend, Jim to actually reinstall the small part.

I always wear my glasses for these procedures, or the small part invariably finds its way into my eye. I prefer to pick the part out my foot rather than my eye.

Now you know why my pen is my primary and most useful tool, and why I seldom go any farther than field stripping a firearm.

Welcome to Coltforum, elginrunner.

[elginrunner]

I never did find that darn spring.... However, if you order from brownells and have a spring stock assortment like I have (for just such times!) and wolf brand 3-3 size will work perfectly, just trim to length....

Thanks so much for all who helped.

Brock in Arkansas