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Removing recoil spring from guide, Sig P210
- Thread starter JeffK
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No problem at all, sounds like this spring is different from the older ones.
Just out of irresistable curiousity, I did give unscrewing it a try, and it came off easily - little 6 mm open-ended wrench on the flats, end piece in a vice, turn the wrench. There is threadlocker in there, so I cleaned everything off and then put it all back together with locktight blue (242). I'll keep a close eye on it for a while, next time I take it out, to make sure it doesn't start unscrewing itself. If that's a problem, I have two stronger flavors of locktight.
So, it does unscrew, but I can't speak to the wisdom of unscrewing it, and I see no real reason to do it again given that it's threadlocked together, and it can be cleaned as one assembly. If anyone else has any reason to want or need to do this, be cautious because 5 Nm is not much torque - basically, just enough torque to realign the flats on the rod to the flats on the end piece.
Just out of irresistable curiousity, I did give unscrewing it a try, and it came off easily - little 6 mm open-ended wrench on the flats, end piece in a vice, turn the wrench. There is threadlocker in there, so I cleaned everything off and then put it all back together with locktight blue (242). I'll keep a close eye on it for a while, next time I take it out, to make sure it doesn't start unscrewing itself. If that's a problem, I have two stronger flavors of locktight.
So, it does unscrew, but I can't speak to the wisdom of unscrewing it, and I see no real reason to do it again given that it's threadlocked together, and it can be cleaned as one assembly. If anyone else has any reason to want or need to do this, be cautious because 5 Nm is not much torque - basically, just enough torque to realign the flats on the rod to the flats on the end piece.
stephen426
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I'm so freaking tempted... Just saw a couple of P210 Legends going for just over $1700. I think the wifie will get mad if I make more frivolous purchases right now. We just redid the pool for about $12,000. I also gave in to a few knife purchases for BOUT $700. I also picked up a Springfield Armory XDs recently. Arghhh... Maybe I should just get the beavertail they sell to retrofit the P210.
Follow-up, 200 more rounds through the Legend, no problems and the rod didn't start unscrewing itself so I reckon it's fine. Once thoroughly cleaned of all the shipping grease, it actually doesn't get very dirty from use. So, my take is, it might be worth carefully taking it apart once to clean it thoroughly, but beyond that it's safer to just leave it alone and clean as-needed as a complete unit.