Spring replacement

[MrToad]

Welcome mintjulepwithrice! 'Bout time you showed up. I've been a little slow in getting around here. I've got a replacement spring for my K40 (yes, not witness marks on mine either), but the current recoil spring seemed to work just fine. The newer recoil springs in several models seem to be longer than prior versions, and you can see the difference in the K40 here. Once I get my slide back from Trijicon's relamping (thanks again, wyntrout) next week or the week after, I'll do some more testing with the old spring and new. The newer, longer spring makes takedown more difficult, but may ease up the snappy recoil a bit. We'll see.

That reminds me, can any of you show me a picture of your homemade takedown gizmo? I suppose I ought to spring for Kahr's takedown block and get myself their nice hat too while I'm there, but DIY is fun too (takedown, not the hat).

[wyntrout]

I was thinking about a new recoil spring... think I got one from Wolff... but my slide is plenty hard to rack and no problems, yet. My K9 is over 13 years old and the slide is PLENTY hard to rack. I haven't broken 1,000 rounds as far as I know... no records.
I DO want to get one of those 5-lb striker springs, though, and see if the trigger feels better. I finally can shoot well with the K9, but the trigger feels like it was made out of lead... really different from the polymers. All of my shooting the polymers finally helped me with the K9 when my brother and I were testing it with the new LaserGrips. He turned those off after a while and we really enjoyed the K9. I was shooting it really well... for me... and he did well, too.

Wynn

[wyntrout]

Oh! I tried to break my PM9 when I got that... don't need to read no manual... had a K9 for about 12 years by then. I was trying to line up the slide and the frame to remove the slide lock/pin. I got up to using a screwdriver handle and then requested help here... including a picture of my PM9's slide and frame perfectly lined up for the pin to come out... perfect for a K9!!! Someone suggested really whacking it with a mallet, but someone else recognized my problem... thankfully... RT#Manual!
Polymers are different! I like needing no tools to take it down for cleaning, or re-assembly... I know I could do that blindfolded!

Wynn