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skcincy
02-14-2013, 04:32 PM
I'm still experiencing occasional failures to feed in my new CW40....about 400 rounds through it now....I remember seeing a thread on here about Kahr magazine springs possibly being installed backwards from the factory. Its not the first round out of the magazine...usually around the 3rd i believe that causes me problems. Will be careful to note next time which round in the magazine fails to feed. Trying to chase down all possible causes before I sent the weapon back to Kahr.

But I can't seem to find a picture to help illustrate the issue...looking for a pic of how springs SHOULD be oriented in the magazine.

Does anybody have a pic on hand? or is there a link that i'm missing?

Thanks for your help

adamog133
02-14-2013, 04:50 PM
The magazine spring highest end goes in the same direction as the follower towards the feed ramp.

Your issue sounds a lot like mine, the magazine release button (actually the slot on the magazine that the release button engages into) is hanging up on the plastic follower, hence round 2 and/or 3 would not feed all the time. I modified my followers and the issue was gone on my pm45 and my p380. Hope this helps.

Greg has a sticky on it. http://www.kahrtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1612

http://www.kahr.com/PDF/kahrmanual.pdf shows the spring orientation as well.

http://www.kahrtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9193&highlight=MAG+SPRING

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skcincy
02-14-2013, 04:54 PM
Thanks for the quick reply. I will get to work tonight after i put the kids to bed.

SK

adamog133
02-14-2013, 04:56 PM
:cool: Anytime. The members of this forum are Awesome. They have helped me out tremendously. :)

Booker T
02-15-2013, 08:58 PM
+1 to what adamog133 said.