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Originally Posted by Mike Phelan
There's a knack on removing and refitting a spring in the barrel - takes a few minutes but pages to try to explain!
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This is the kind of process that Donald De Carle illustrates with parts about twice the size of the elegant hands manipulating them. It's only when one tries oneself that it becomes clear that to see it, one requires a 1" loupe. The fingers, alas, cannot shrink in sympathy.
Well done, Christopher. A good application of physics! Could you have tried tempering it if it had been annealed too much? It seems as though it works just fine now, though.