Bent spring on my CM40

[Brownie65]

So...I last shot my CM40 about a month ago. First time that I didn't have any ftfs or the like. I finally felt good about purchasing the gun (in June). I hadn't cleaned it since the last trip to the range. I thought that I would clean it while watching football yesterday. Field stripped it and WOW! What a neat looking spring! I sent same picture to Kahr. They are sending me a new spring. When I asked, they would not speculate about what would cause the spring to get deformed.

Any ideas about why this would happen from the knowledgeable masses on Karhtalk?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9ptY18Thojw/VCnmA6B3q2I/AAAAAAAACS8/RTwERpBWMtY/w1226-h690-no/IMG_20140928_142427_719.jpg

[Bawanna]

I don't see a picture but I surmise your probably talking about the slide stop take down spring.

[Brownie65]

Edited to include image


———You can't always get what you want, but if you try you get what you need.

[Bawanna]

That's strange, must have been bad from the get go. Send that picture to Kahr and I'm sure they'll send you a new recoil assembly.

Is that extra coil attached to the main spring anyplace or just floating extra. Don't look like it could be a part of the main spring in the photo.

[Brownie65]

It's part of the main spring. Definitely deformed. Kahr is sending me a new spring.


———You can't always get what you want, but if you try you get what you need.

[b4uqzme]

Cool! Gotta just assume it was a defective spring. That new recoil assembly should fix you right up.

[CJB]

That spring reminds me of some sort of strangled intensinal disorder..... jeeeze. The fix is easy. Slide off the old spring, slide on the new, and.....you get to run a few break in boxes of ammo thru it again.

[Bawanna]

I don't think Kahr sells just the outer spring. I suspect he'll get a whole new assembly.

[yqtszhj]

That looks like you let one of my kids work in your gun.

[muggsy]

Or maybe he let Jocko shoot it. Jocko could fokk up an anvil with a rubber mallet. :)