Steve: I thought about something like that, but the barrel on my Standard D has a round metal plate that covers the spring on the open end. I thought about leaving the cover off, but I didn't like the idea of omitting original parts. I am beginning to think that the little hole in the back of the barrel was there to enable one to use a tool to push the spring coils in as I did to get the spring to hook. I often wondered what that was for.
By the way, this was a replacement spring that I installed in the machine about 14 years ago. It came already tightly coiled up to fit the barrel. After removing the broken spring, all I had to do was push the new spring down in the barrel and clip the bailing wire to allow it to unwind and hook the barrel. I had no trouble getting it to hook the winding shaft. The new spring that I have is not tightly coiled and it requires feeding into the barrel, making replacement that much more of a hassle. I am glad I did not have to do that this time! I guess Sean is right. If you can, just send your spring barrel out to a reputable repair person. Spring repair is messy, dangerous, and often frustrating, especially if you have low mechanical aptitude. -Phil On 7/24/04 11:05 PM, "Steven Medved" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I have had a spring that would not catch on my Standard D I used a rag to > compress the spring end to get it to start, & pulled it out when it started, > and did not let it unwind. > > Steve > > I >> reassembled the machine, but I just could not get the spring to catch on >> the >> hook on the winding shaft. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.oldcrank.com/mailman/listinfo/phono-l_oldcrank.com >
