P220 Broken Hammer Reset Spring Fixed it!!! For now!

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Steve Janes

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So I just got this P220

I dry fired it about 10-15 times since yesterday to check out the trigger. Today I do it again and a little piece of spring comes out the back end, from underneath the hammer. When you pull the trigger the hammer falls, but then doesn't reset, it takes pulling the trigger again to reset it

What spring broke and fell out? Edit: the hammer reset spring

Is this easy/cheap to fix?? edit: should be

Will the gun still work without it? edit: yes

What can I do? Edit: take a coil out of the broken spring and re bend it to work

thanks
 
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try and dis-assemble the whole pistol and see what's broken (trigger bar spring?)
here is a link to show you how to do it, watch it and learn:

h t t p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5KUP9qoaw
 
I can't see your video, but ifyour hammer isn't resetting, and you have broken bits of spring (quite small diameter?) it's probably a broken hammer reset spring. (I don't know where they come up with these names, silly Germans...)

It sits in that little bit of plastic (hammer buffer-something-or-other) behind the hammer & is held in with one very small pin. It is also a bit of a ##### to remove/replace. I think it's a 1/16 pin punch you need, but I could be off.
 
Oh, and the only real problem I can think of offhand is that the sear now won't engage the safety intercept on the hammer when it's decocked. But you also have a firing pin block, so it shouldn't be a HUGE issue if the zombies come tonight, but yeah, replace it, it's one of the safeties.
 
After following that video and completely disassembling the gun, it appears to be this!!!

Everything else is in good working order, but this is the spring that broke

Is this the hammer reset spring as stated above?

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Yup, that's her.

And after further thought, the sear may actually engage the safety intercept on decocking regardless, don't have one in front of me.
 
Mine broke about a year ago and the boys at the shooting edge in Calgary fixed me up right away. Seen as you already have it apart mostly, they maybe able to hook you up with parts you are needing.
 
So I opened her all up and removed the hammer reset spring.

Sure enough it was broken.

I watched a video of how the spring should have looked and then took the pliers and pried one coil out of the spring to get the extra length that had broken off, then bent the extra coil so it to looked roughly the way it should, and put it all back together, after a function test of 25-30 dry fire's in both SA, and DA it works fine again.

I will definitely still be in the market for a replacement spring
Thanks for all the help everyone:D
 
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