Easing the spring
- Thread starter Wendell
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My wife decocked me a long time ago
- Location
- Barrie Ont. Canada
Here in Ontario we didn't even get winter this year so i guess we eased into spring!?!
We're still under at least a foot of snow here.. we hit -35 for over a week, and right now it melts just enough during the day that it freezes rock solid overnight. It's kind of a nightmare, but I prefer it SO MUCH to the muddy winters in Ontario we had.
This is what my thoughts were… But didn’t vote because im also unsure of question…. I store all my rifles with bolt open.. They fit better in the safes[/QUOTE]
If bolt is opened, the spring is cocked. easing the spring means de-cocking it,
The installed length of a striker spring on a typical bolt action is a fraction of it's free standing length. Its already at very close to the same pressure un-cocked as it is cocked. A bigger factor on the ageing of springs is the amount of cycles anyway.
Do we jack up our trucks to take the weight off the springs when it's parked? If you do, why stop there? That same truck probably has 16 valve springs. If 2 cylinders are on the compression stroke and 2 are on the power stroke I guess that 8 that are un-cocked, and since the other 4 cylinders are either on the intake or exhaust stroke it still leaves 4 that were left cocked. If you (As a matter of practice) tore your valve covers off at night and "eased" the offending springs they'd lock you up in a room with rubber wall-paper and a jacket that buttons in the back.
I ordered 11 striker springs around the new year for $100 Canadian. I've got better things to worry about than 9 bucks, and that worry (or relief gained) would be misplaced anyway. Besides; my old truck is on a jack right now...........
Do we jack up our trucks to take the weight off the springs when it's parked? If you do, why stop there? That same truck probably has 16 valve springs. If 2 cylinders are on the compression stroke and 2 are on the power stroke I guess that 8 that are un-cocked, and since the other 4 cylinders are either on the intake or exhaust stroke it still leaves 4 that were left cocked. If you (As a matter of practice) tore your valve covers off at night and "eased" the offending springs they'd lock you up in a room with rubber wall-paper and a jacket that buttons in the back.
I ordered 11 striker springs around the new year for $100 Canadian. I've got better things to worry about than 9 bucks, and that worry (or relief gained) would be misplaced anyway. Besides; my old truck is on a jack right now...........
RJ
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My old truck really is up on a jack overnight (weight on springs); due to complications on what should have been a 1/2 hour brake job. Caliper slide rod in caliper support seized tightern a ...............well its really seized and now is; what's the technical term? Broken? FUBAR? To add insult to injury I'd opened the shop door to position the offending corner close to the welder and now have a broken truck with 4 loaded suspension springs and 4 "cocked" valve springs in a balmy -25 C doorway, and a time conflict because I'm supposed to be taking my new truck in for a recall today on some magic electronic tail-gate issue, which by the big deal they are making out of it just might be holding the whole truck together.
Rubber wall-paper is starting to sound good.
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- AB foothills
Hook, line and sinker. Walk away, never to return…
Works well, obviously.
Works well, obviously.
If memory serves me correctly, "Ease Springs" was a command given when handling the FN C1 & C2 after it was cleared and checked, typically on the range, as actions were to the rear for inspection and once given the clear you would disengage the HOD and let the BB and BBC go forward, point the rifle down range and then squeeze the trigger (the rifles were commonly put down on the firing point with the BBC to the rear) I recall "Ease Springs" when doing dry training drills too. The springs that were being 'eased' were in the trigger group. For the C7/C8 the methodology is the same except after you receive the "Clear" command, post "For Inspection, Clear Weapons" you release the BCG and fire the action.
I think easing springs to most means the position of least tension or compression depending on the spring type. Trigger springs - tension, bolt springs - compression.
I think easing springs to most means the position of least tension or compression depending on the spring type. Trigger springs - tension, bolt springs - compression.
What makes you consider it bad habit?
Any habit that disregards rule #3 is inherently problematic.
I'm not saying that one cannot 'ease the spring' safely, and I'm not saying that there is no reason (ever) to 'ease the spring' - and I can, in fact, think of one reason - but any habit that disregards rule #3 (or #1, or #2, or #4) is a bad habit.
We first make our habits and then our habits make us.
<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/19/habits-make/>
I'm not saying that one cannot 'ease the spring' safely, and I'm not saying that there is no reason (ever) to 'ease the spring' - and I can, in fact, think of one reason - but any habit that disregards rule #3 (or #1, or #2, or #4) is a bad habit.
We first make our habits and then our habits make us.
<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/19/habits-make/>
So I don't have to watch a video to figure it out, what is rule #3? (Wouldn't hurt to list em all for that matter)
