My success rate on taking apart and putting back recoil spring is terrible. I've ruined at least 2 ms260/026 recoil springs. I'm very good at taking them apart to clean them if the get sticky, however, I cannot get them back together! Today I ordered an aftermarket recoil cover as I damaged the spring in my attempt to put it back together. Am I the only guy in this group with this problem? I think I can manage when it's a spring contained in some kind of cartridge, but if it's loose spring I'm f*#%ed.
I kill recoils( and I'm man enough to admit it)
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I did ruin one. I had a brain fart when I was rewinding it and went the wrong direction and it broke off the end that holds it in.
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You can do it! I believe in you (and it’s not really that hard)!
There are some youtube videos that show how to rewind and install those springs. It was a gamechanger for me
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Ill have to take a photo, but I made a tool for winding them with my little screw gun out of a old poulan starter pulley. Once I get them wound I use the large zip tie to hold them and then drop them back in and take the ziptie off.
That's fixable as well. A little heat makes em easy to bend into shape, then quench it in water, easy peazy.
In my older years I tend to get a little lazy and just replace the whole starter assembly. I do the same with carburetors. use to kit them, now I just replace them..
At least yer honest!
Never had a problem with them, just wind them in from the outside-in. If the end breaks, I heat the end and bend a new hook.
sure, easy IF you have a brain AND some skills
To hell with fighting bent, rusty, sticky clock springs, i spend the 10-15 bucks and put a new one in and spray with dry lube. Same with the rewind pulley and pawls, oem only after fighting the crap aftermarket stuff that fails the second day of use.
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Buy 1 new spring to see if it comes with a holder in the package. The holder is reusable. That is what I use in the shop.
Brain fart, I love it, nice expression, 10 out of 10 and a barrel of kudos!
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