I have a question what if your mag spring or rivet breaks and the mag needs to be re-pinned. How would you go about doing it? Would you just place the Rivet in the exact place or would you load Ten rounds and compress the spring and then fix the Rivet.
Fixing mags
- Thread starter stefofthenorth
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does the rivet effect the spring? can you change the mag spring on a riveted mag?
Depending on the configuration, the rivet may be in the way of the mag spring. Most of the time the mag spring can be removed. The follower is definitely stuck unfortunately.
this begs the bigger question , how do you legally fix a riveted mag that needs a new spring that you would have to remove the rivet if it is illegal to remove a pin from a mag? or is there a caveat that you can remove a pin to repair a mag?
Do it quickly and quietly, and nobody's the wiser.
You're repairing a mag. It's fine. Remove the pin, do you what you need to do, re pin the mag. Done. Besides, it's not as if the cfo will come knocking on your door the moment you're fixing your mag.
Are you sure ....... My tinfoil hat is strong and I do see black helicopters :$ ..... All joking asides that is what figured I am still not sure if you rivet it with the spring compressed or not or if even makes a difference.
Again it all depends. I think my xdm mags were uncompressed when the rivet was in place. My glock pmags, the rivet is compressing the spring. To be honest with you, i use magblocks. Much simpler to deal with; clean, repair, etc. Plus when installed it's very consistent at 10.5 rounds each and every time i put my mags back together.
Shooter1of38
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Same way a husband rubs one out in the shower before his wife catches him.
No witness, no crime....
sometimes I think we gun owners have been fully brainwashed to worry about every little thing.
ok great thank you for the info it is for an old S&W model 59 double stack mag.... now to find the spring
? As in you don't have one or the one you had launched it self into the neither regions of the garage never to been from again
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Hahahh as I don't have one lol I have had them shoot out to space before. .... I think the spring thatbis installed is toast I am looking for a replacement
Do you know what the +5 % or +10% means? is that how strong the spring is?
It means the spring is x% stronger in tension than factory oem.
