I kill recoils( and I'm man enough to admit it)

[david newbie]

My success rate on taking apart and putting back recoil spring is terrible. I've ruined at least 2 ms260/026 recoil springs. I'm very good at taking them apart to clean them if the get sticky, however, I cannot get them back together! Today I ordered an aftermarket recoil cover as I damaged the spring in my attempt to put it back together. Am I the only guy in this group with this problem? I think I can manage when it's a spring contained in some kind of cartridge, but if it's loose spring I'm f*#%ed.

 

[ammoaddict]

I did ruin one. I had a brain fart when I was rewinding it and went the wrong direction and it broke off the end that holds it in.

 

[Backstage]

You can do it! I believe in you (and it’s not really that hard)!

 

[MacAttack]

There are some youtube videos that show how to rewind and install those springs. It was a gamechanger for me

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Ill have to take a photo, but I made a tool for winding them with my little screw gun out of a old poulan starter pulley. Once I get them wound I use the large zip tie to hold them and then drop them back in and take the ziptie off.

 

[grizz55chev]

I did ruin one. I had a brain fart when I was rewinding it and went the wrong direction and it broke off the end that holds it in.

That's fixable as well. A little heat makes em easy to bend into shape, then quench it in water, easy peazy.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

In my older years I tend to get a little lazy and just replace the whole starter assembly. I do the same with carburetors. use to kit them, now I just replace them..

 

[grizz55chev]

In my older years I tend to get a little lazy and just replace the whole starter assembly. I do the same with carburetors. use to kit them, now I just replace them..

At least yer honest!

 

[buzz sawyer]

Never had a problem with them, just wind them in from the outside-in. If the end breaks, I heat the end and bend a new hook.

 

[david newbie]

Never had a problem with them, just wind them in from the outside-in. If the end breaks, I heat the end and bend a new hook.

sure, easy IF you have a brain AND some skills

 

[cookies]

To hell with fighting bent, rusty, sticky clock springs, i spend the 10-15 bucks and put a new one in and spray with dry lube. Same with the rewind pulley and pawls, oem only after fighting the crap aftermarket stuff that fails the second day of use.

 

[2StrokeFondler]

just wind them in from the outside-in

This

 

[stihltech]

Buy 1 new spring to see if it comes with a holder in the package. The holder is reusable. That is what I use in the shop.

 

[PEK]

I did ruin one. I had a brain fart when I was rewinding it and went the wrong direction and it broke off the end that holds it in.

Brain fart, I love it, nice expression, 10 out of 10 and a barrel of kudos!