Looking for places to buy springs, mainly valve springs for my AEA guns that are absolutely impossible to find so far. Going off the measurements and everywhere I have looked id have to say they make there own because nobody has anything close and there's very little room to play with size. I'm looking for stiffer springs not factory fyi. Thanks in advance
Where to buy Springs?
- Thread starter oldmojo
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if you don't find exactly what you're looking for....there are places that can make you springs. i learned this from a dear friend who is a gunsmith. i don't know where he purchases his from exactly but a brief search for custom firearm springs turns up a number of places. perhaps they can help you. just a thought
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Buy whatever thickness springwire and wrap around a bolt of the same pattern. Drilling a hole near the bolthead to hold the start of the wire helps.
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Lee spring, century spring are both spring specialty houses that have huge selection of off the rack springs. Mcmaster only carries their hot sellers.
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AliExpress, I measure a lot of the springs in my guns and then buy various springs that are the same, shorter, longer, heavier and lighter. Then if I want to play with hammer springs, return springs, valve springs I get out the appropriate container and pick a spring.
Usually just a couple bucks for 5 or 10.
Usually just a couple bucks for 5 or 10.
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Right there with you! I’ve been searching for an S45 hammer spring for a while now. Bintac service blew me off repeatedly. Aliexpress had a few that come close to the part # dimensions but won’t fit. The closest I got was a company that could do a custom run to spec of 10 springs for ~$150. No thanks!
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Please let me know who they are. Most of my suppliers wont take a custome order for less than $250
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I went back to Lee spring and added to the tolerance and found some that should work , even if I need to shave a couple thousands off the retaining cap or retaining stem on the valve I'm able to do that but hoping I won't need to. Awhile back I splurged and got hammer springs from compression springs. Com, with the $40 minimum I have spares for everything and I found the perfect heavy hammer spring for my aea .25 challenger that nobody sells, it is shooting. 251 33gr slugs like a lazer and I think I'm going to up it to 40gr. Lee spring prices are very reasonable unless they have a minimum I havnt seen yet but I'll have a few in the cart. I'm trying to duplicate the hillairgun.com matched parts kit for the marauder. It's basically heavy hammer and valve spring with bigger transfer port and omg, my 177 marauder with lother barrel is shooting 20gr slugs so awesome it's just incredible and no regulator needed, it's so consistent . It actually shoots anything I put in very well, 178, 177, 10gr 16gr 20gr, pellets slugs
If you have a caliper and can take measurements,
Lee spring looks very reasonable, I'll be ordering tomorrow. These guys are also very reasonable, if you need a few with the $40 minimum but i got lots for the $50 i spent. https://www.compressionspring.com/
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This info is very good .
We can’t find springs locally , only for door handles (used in emergencies) at True Value hardware store .
We can’t find springs locally , only for door handles (used in emergencies) at True Value hardware store .
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So I just placed a order with Lee spring and no minimum but if you don't spend $40 you get charged a $20 fee and no free shipping option but if you spend at least 40 there is a free shipping option so naturally I choose more springs than needed. Soon I might even start selling my extra unused things. Not likely though because just incase.
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Oh and at Lee spring if you put too much in your cart the only way to modify is put the quantity to 0 and click continue shopping, and if you forget what something in your cart is copy and paste into search bar, but maybe it's because I'm using mobile?
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