confused by tiny spring on back of sear!

[82ndpopski]

I am cleaning a national match for a friend and I am confused about a tiny spring coming out the back of the sear with a small lever between the sear and the right side of the frame.I have several series 70's and have had many series 80's apart but I have never seen any 1911 with this tiny tiny spring and lever. I am by no means a gunsmith but I am quite familiar with the firearms I prefer to shoot .For the life of me I can't see how to load this back in the frame without that tiny tiny spring shooting across my shop into limbo,HELP ME PLEASE!

[A1A]

Series 70 Sear Assembly? HTH

[NowhereMan]

What I did was preassemble the parts using a short piece of wood skewer. Slide the preassemble pieces into the frame and push the skewer out with the frame pin.

I don't know that I'd leave the spring out (as posted in the link). My understanding was Colt added it to help prevent the gun from going FA due to the heavy steel trigger/light trigger pull.


Dave

[Peter M. Eick]

Use a q-tip and then cut it to the correct size. It acts as a slave pin so you can assemble the depressor spring and lever out of the gun and then stuff the assembly in and push the q-tip out with the real pin.