I have recently acquired a Swiss contract Luger 1900. As is typical on these, it has a broken Mainspring (s-spring in the grip). I have a replacement, but am having trouble getting it in. I would like some advice on how to do this without scratching the frame too much. While it is a shooter with a lot of wear (previous owner was a boomer's granddad who shot it a lot), I'd still like not to fuck it up completely.
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This is it with the Mainspring still installed
>>64351222Short of "take it to a gunsmith," not really. This is largely why Luger switched to a coil mainspring in subsequent versions; you got the one that's infamously fragile and extremely difficult to work on.Supposedly there was some sort of a tool they used that interfaced with the hooked end of the spring to help compress it, but I've never seen one.
>>64351306do you have any sources/videos on this? I can't seem to find much on the 1900 specifically online - probably too niche
>>64351350Nope. As far as I know, there are no videos out there of anyone replacing the leaf-spring style of Luger mainspring. If you're able to figure out how to get yours fixed, you should probably document it for posterity.
>>64351350Maybe contact the royal arms guys, probably a long shot
>>64351350The guy on the C&Rsenal youtube channel had a 1900 Luger with this same problem, a broken mainspring. In his video on it, he mentioned that he hadn't been able to get a replacement in time for filming, but that was a while ago. Presumably he's fixed it since then, so you might try contacting him to see if he has some pointers.
>>64351222>>64351250LEWDEWD
