[TR] Finger Breaking Choke Pull, TR3

[Hans de Ferrante]

Thanks for testing them, Randall. Interesting, your old ones were  
weaker than your new ones(!?) Don't know what to make of it, but I am  
definitely staying with the new ones
that at least  allow me to pull it out far enough.
Hope this message will get to you on the List, because I seem  to have  
been banished (reason "don't allow non-members to post"). I have been  
a member for over a year.
Oh well, hopefully just some computer glitch.
Hans

On Mar 14, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Randall wrote:

>> So I tested the (probably original and nearly 1/2 century old)  
>> springs
>> with a spring scale and found that it took 5 - 6 lbs. each to pull
>> them out 1/4'' beyond the in-place pretension  point.
>
> FWIW, I checked both an old spring and a couple of new ones last  
> night, with
> my digital fish scale.  Didn't have a number for installed length,  
> so I just
> pulled them out from coil bind.  The new springs took about 4 lbs to  
> pull
> 1/4", the old one a bit less than 3 lbs.
>
> Doesn't really help with your problem, but I think it indicates that  
> your
> old springs were pretty close to correct.
>
> Sounds like you've got your jets & seals really slicked up.  Hope  
> they stay
> that way.
>
> -- Randall 
>