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Offline woodman

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Trigger Spring
« on: January 04, 2010, 05:00:47 PM »
I have a friend putting together a CVA frointer kit in 50 caliber for another friend. He got ready to set the trigger and found that the trigger return spring is broke.
  Any body know where to find one at?
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2010, 05:08:58 PM »
Seand a PM to Captchee, he's got a bunch of CVA stuff around his shop, if not he could probably make one up
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2010, 06:45:36 PM »
woodman .
  the spring is  very easy to make . infact he can make a better one way cheeper then buying a new one .

 have him go down and get a piece of piano wire .
 most harware stores carry K&S
 if not , if he has a hobby store close that cells RC cars and planes .
3 ft should run him around 50 cents .
just bend it slowly with a set of pliers and he will have a speing that much smoother and with a better responce  then the  factory
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2010, 07:09:35 PM »
I knew Cap would be the man to see on this!
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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2010, 08:23:27 AM »
thanks for the replies... and the info
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« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2010, 01:05:36 PM »
i have made them from guitar strings,may be easier to find than piano wire,just strip the outer windings off.
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« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2010, 01:18:29 PM »
GOOD call david . i never thought about cromium strings .
 now im going to have to  try one of my fiddle next time a string breaks  ;)
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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2010, 02:47:59 PM »
used to have a CVA SXS .12ga that the trigger springs broke on.i happen to play bass guitar so i just stripped the windings off an old lower E string and wha-la,lifetime supply :)
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« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2010, 09:06:04 PM »
I have a question.When did your friend purchase the kit?
i didn't think CVA made that kit for decades.
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« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2010, 09:50:42 PM »
I don'y know about the kits but they were still selling the frontier model into the mid 90s/ By the way , a wrapped instrument string makes a good vent hoke cleaner.
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« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2010, 10:38:52 PM »
I keep a few cutoffs of guitar and fiddle strings when I change them out.
That is very good info ,never know what you can learn.
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« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2010, 10:58:13 PM »
We bought  a CVA Frontier Hawken kit for my son in 1991.  Have not seen them for sale since.
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« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2010, 08:39:18 AM »
They have had the kit for decades and never did anything with it untill recently.
   Thanks for the input , Preach made a spring out of a piece of piano wire .
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