Is your JBMR a flintlock?

No, but I was just talking about the spring.

bronko...

YOU'RE IN FLORIDA!!! What else do you have to do other than feed chicken scraps to the Gators? Get your butt online and start looking for a better spring source!!!!

BPS

As was I.

Frankly, I found your snide "I thought we were talking about flintlocks" comment a bit offensive. You always seem to find something in a thread with which to quarrel.

ReallY? I thought you started this one. The topic was spring strength. All i did was talk about how strong the spring is in the gun I have. You came on to talk about the thousands of shots you've taken with a weak spring with I guess no misfires. Your post was directed at me, because I mentioned coil springs. So, who was looking for a quarrel?

There's a big difference between firing a cap, and a flintlock. How is pointing this out a snide remark? Call me out, and i'll return it. I didn't even do it this time. I simply reminded you what the topic was.

When I post i'm trying to help. You don't have to agree with me. Just give your opinion and leave it at that. If you choose to disagree with me. Expect a response from me. If you think that's wanting to argue you have a problem. I hate to argue and never look for it. I'll also not back off. It's how I am.

Sorry you get offended so easily. You didn't seem like that type to me. I'm sure this post will really upset you.

Just for the record. I didn't pull the idea out of the blue of coil springs being a bad idea for locks.

I had a GRP LH flinter that wouldn't hold powder during a hunt. I called up L&R lock to see if I could get a replacement lock. I got the owner on the phone and must have caught him when he felt like talking. We must have talked for an hour about locks. That's when the subject of coil springs came up and he thought they were a bad idea. We discussed why, and that's what I passed on in this thread.

So, if you disagree with me. You're also disagreeing with someone who makes locks for a living.

Just saying.

I was going to let this go Pete. But there is a flaw in your logic about springs. All springs, regardless of type will lose power at the end of their stroke. Flat springs are under more tension when installed. That is my reasoning for putting a washer on and loading it.

I understand that, but a leaf spring has much more strength at the end of travel. That's why a car with coil springs has a softer ride than leaf springs.

Pete - That's not correct. Think about it. The leaf and/or flat springs are under load. If you took a flat spring without tension and started to apply pressure it would be very easy at first (depending on the size of the spring of course). But the more it is compressed the more load is required. It is the same as a coil spring. Now what I will agree on is that flat springs do not require as much compression as a coil spring to serve the same purpose because there is more mass in a flat spring as opposed to the "wire" of the coil spring. Also if both were under equal pressure the flat spring would be quicker because of the mass.

You're right it doesn't have as much movement as a coil spring. So, it takes very little movement to reach a higher poundage than a coil spring. With that in mind. Put a preload on the leaf spring, and you have much more poundage at the end of the hammers travel than the coil spring.

Which is why leaf springs are stiff riding on cars/trucks. Jeep Wranglers used to have leaf springs F&R and they rode hard and didn't have any travel in the suspension. In 97 they switched to coil springs. The ride was much better, and offroad they have much more articulation in the suspension.