Posted: 4/3/2010 10:06:27 AM EDT
|
I've got an excellent Mauser WTP1 that I've been attempting to restore to operating condition for some time. Need the combination magazine catch/spring assembly. Pretty useless without one...Have tried all the usual sources, plenty of HSC parts, but very few WTP. Any ideas or anyone with the odd mag catch lying around?
Cheers! |
|
Just curious....but if a part isn't available, how hard would it be to reverse-engineer it?
If the original part is there (but worn) dimensions shouldn't be a prob, if it isn't, then one would have to do a bit of guesswork....but given a Dremel, a good set of files, and time....theoritacally could one make a replacement part? I've heard the Arabs do that stuff frequently overseas.... Seems to me springs would be the difficult part to reproduce. |
|
Quoted:
Seems to me springs would be the difficult part to reproduce. Wolf Gunsprings makes custom & out of date springs for guns on a CNC spring making machine. All they need is to know which gun & which spring you need. No clue what they charge for this sort of thing............................. |
|
I've checked with Wolf––They'll be happy to do something but have a minimum number they'll make to offset the tooling setup. I'm sure that if I wanted to have them manufacture a thousand of the silly things then they'd be happy to do so. Then I'd be faced with the project of finding 999 additional broken WTP's...
Have considered handmaking one. The problem being the design incorporates the two internal spring fingers as well as the magazine catch. It may ultimately come down to this, however. Now, if I could just find an arab in the neighborhood... |
|
It is essentially a flat spring. Shouldn't be to hard to get some flat spring stock, cut it to size and then heat treat it.
http://www.mauserguns.com/guides/Mauser%20WTP%20strip%20instructions.pdf |
| Yes, I've a pretty good photo of it and I expect that will be the direction I ultimately take. Not sure from the photo how the catch is actually attached to the spring. Obviously that is the weak point as that's where my original spring broke. Previous owner rigged a brass catch and attempted to braze it to the spring section. Wasn't particularly successful, and somewhere over the years I've managed to lose the spring section. Didn't realized at the time that it would be such a hassle to replace. Hope springs eternal, however. |