BSS top lever spring needed

[Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494]

  BSS manufacture date of 1971, V-shaped spring with rounded area at peak of V for mounting/retaining screw.  NA through Brownell's or Numrich.

 

This was Fred Bursey's personal shotgun, purchased 2012.  A real sweetheart, but the spring in question has lost its tension.  Perhaps ground too thin on one leg and spring action has disappeared.  

Are replacements available?

Can it be re-tempered and resurrected?

 

Anyone with EXPERIENCE dealing with this situation?

 

Thanks for any and all productive responses.

[Garrison Joe, SASS #60708]

No to retempering.  Very hard to guess exactly a good temp to quench and to draw when you don't know the steel used.

 

Browning company parts service:

https://www.browning.com/support/parts-service.html

 

Art's Gun Shop - a well known factory repair center in Kansas (IFRC)

https://artsgunshop.com/

 

Ol # 4 - this thread from last December describes a spring he has for BSS lever.

https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/309829-browning-bss-lever-spring/

 

 

If all else fails, a SlixSpring for the Colt 1878 (TTN) may have the right shape.  

 

Good luck, GJ

 

[Ol Number4]

Bad B,

 

Check your PM I sent a note.

I have had made a custom wire torsion replacement.

 

Ol'  #4

[Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494]

  Ol Number4 sounds like he has a marvelous solution.

 

And thanks to G. Joe.

 

SASSwire folks are the best!

 

BB

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

BB, buy 2 of those springs  

OLG 

[Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494]

 Yep...2 is one, one is none.  SOP when I was a M/C mechanic; one to use and one to lose.

[John Barleycorn, SASS #76982]

On 4/14/2021 at 11:55 AM, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said:

 Yep...2 is one, one is none.  SOP when I was a M/C mechanic; one to use and one to lose.

I’ve had very simple 10 minute gun jobs turn into 90 minutes looking for a dropped part. 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

On 4/13/2021 at 7:33 PM, Garrison Joe, SASS #60708 said:

Art's Gun Shop - a well known factory repair center in Kansas (IFRC)

https://artsgunshop.com/

 

Hillsboro, MO. South of St. Louis