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Gamecab:
Try "Sears Hardware" if one is in your area.  They have a small parts area in which you can puchase springs from model 22 up to 90 (Chicago Spring Inc Standard sizes).  That's where I get my springs from.

RayB:
Lancelot and others: Unless the springs are rusted up real bad, I don't think you need to replace them. The biggest cause of buttons sticking isn't the strength of the spring, it's gunk built up between the two plastic parts of the button (ie: between the part that moves down, and the part that's around the part that moves down).

I may be wrong, as I haven't been through 60 to 80 buttons as Lancelot has, but I've had a few used ones stick, and what I did was pop the button part out of the holder part, used some warm soapy water and cleaned the suckers. Now they bounce back just fine!

~Ray B.

andrewonawall:
Thanks for the tips guys :). I think that I'll check at Sears first, and then Happs if I can't find anything.

And yes, they are extremely rusty. There was so much rust that the buttons, which were an opaque white originally, where corroded in rust all around where the two plastic parts meet. I took them apart and was able to clean them up okay, but I don't want to use the old springs that caused this in the first place.

Just out of curiosity, is the reason that the springs are tempered so that they will maintain their shape?

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: andrewonawall on June 11, 2004, 03:13:58 am ---Just out of curiosity, is the reason that the springs are tempered so that they will maintain their shape?

--- End quote ---
Tempering increases the strength of the steel and thus the resistance of the spring.

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