New Hammer Spring

[BCS]

New one is 3/4" wide at the hammer, tapers to 1/2".

Old one below.

Old one was 1/2" wide made from original spring, it cracked at the narrow.

The new one is annealed 1075 spring steel.
Heated and quenched in 140 degree vegetable oil. [After heat treat, the spring was to hard to file, perfect!]
Then into the toaster oven for two hours at 400, the for good measure an other hour at 450. Wrapped in tin foil after polishing.

Also have the spring plunger added for the trigger return.

And, am shooting musket caps.

 

[smokepolehall]

Is that a flash protector under nipple you made ?

 

[BCS]

It is a spacer and a flash protector.
Different diameter barrels need different spacers to hold the cap flat and flush with the hammer.
They also direct the splatter downward.

 

[smokepolehall]

I am thinking i will have to get some longer threads on nipples. I have the standard size flash cup & nipple. I don't want to strip any threads on nipples while fitting flash cup/s under them.

 

[BCS]

Number 2 spring, .400" shorter.

Less bow, but still plenty of finger clearance for a glove.

I like this one better.

Now to make one out of 1095 steel and see if there is much difference between the two steels.

 

[smokepolehall]

Watching

 

[smokepolehall]

I see you are talking about trigger bow steel between the 2. Will there be a major difference between them over all usage ?

 

[BCS]

No big difference other than the second one is a bit smaller looking.