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mndoggie · July 17th, 2012, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Jack D

I'd be interested to know what happens when the rubber falls between the coils of the spring during firing. Doesn't seem like it would last long.....either the spring or the rubber.

It doesn't stay between the coils. As the recoil spring starts to compress, the lubricated O ring moves out of the way since it is larger than the metal spring. The coils get fully compressed.

People have been using this same O ring over the recoils spring in the P22 to minimize issues for thousands of rounds.

Even if it only lasts for a thousand rounds, when a person can buy 10 for $2.50 it sdoesn't seem like much of a problem.

Rocad · July 17th, 2012, 01:03 PM

Can someone post a picture of where they installed this o-ring

Jack D · July 17th, 2012, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by mndoggie

It doesn't stay between the coils. As the recoil spring starts to compress, the lubricated O ring moves out of the way since it is larger than the metal spring. The coils get fully compressed.

People have been using this same O ring over the recoils spring in the P22 to minimize issues for thousands of rounds.

Even if it only lasts for a thousand rounds, when a person can buy 10 for $2.50 it sdoesn't seem like much of a problem.

Hard to argue with success. I'll give it a try myself, even though mine is working OK. I can see a mark where it makes contact with the lever..

gmsoapy · July 17th, 2012, 05:54 PM

For those of you looking for more about this go to rimfirecentral.com and look under other guns>ruger-other name of the thread is take down lever failure there are 5 pages with pictures. Give it a look. lot of information there. As I said before I put one on one of my SR22's and can feel the difference when you rack the slide back. I would add don't go by what I do. Go to rimfirecentral and go thru the 5 pages of the thread and make up your own mind as to is this something you want to try. It sure SEEMS like an easy fix.

EYAKER · July 20th, 2012, 10:09 AM

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gmsoapy · July 20th, 2012, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by gmsoapy

I just put an o ring over my recoil spring as per the guys over Rim fire central 3/8" od ,1/4" id & 1/16' thick can feel the difference when I pull the slide back. I have @ SR22's so I can test the feel with and without ,without having to break down. With the o ring it's a softer hit when pulled back and a hard hit without. No trouble getting the slide off .Will let you know how it does when fired.

Just had it out the range today with the o ring in. Ran 400 rds Ferdal bulk thru it. No problems at all. Bought it home broke it down,no trouble getting slide off no wear on the o ring. the recoil feels a little different with the o ring in not as sharp not that a 22 has much recoil.

Jack D · July 21st, 2012, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by gmsoapy

Just had it out the range today with the o ring in. Ran 400 rds Ferdal bulk thru it. No problems at all. Bought it home broke it down,no trouble getting slide off no wear on the o ring. the recoil feels a little different with the o ring in not as sharp not that a 22 has much recoil.

Sounds like a good solution...at least until Ruger comes up with something different. I guess I'll give it a try.

gmsoapy · July 21st, 2012, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack D

Sounds like a good solution...at least until Ruger comes up with something different. I guess I'll give it a try.

That was my idea. Seems like the P22 guys use them alot as they have problems with the slide deforming . Which Walther doesn't seem to want to address. That is just something I picked up when looking into P22's for a friend of mine. How true it is I don't know. All I know as this o ring idea came from P22 owners.

TxRuger65 · July 24th, 2012, 07:43 PM

Shipped my SR22 back on Friday. Got an e-mail today with a tracking number, gun will be back Thursday. Wow, less than a week.

Jack D · July 26th, 2012, 09:44 AM

I bought a half dozen of the "O" rings and installed one on the guide rod/spring, dry, no lubrication. As reported previously, it does not interfere with installation or removal of the slide and certainly does soften the contact with the stop/lever. Obviously, the slide cannot go back quite as far with the ring installed, so I checked to see if it goes far enough to pick-up a cartridge from the mag. It does. It also ejects OK. Close inspection of my lever before I installed the "O" ring shows some indentation of the lever and I have no doubt that it would fail at some point. And probably sooner rather than later. I'm off to the shop to test the gun with the "O" ring installed.

Upate: Fired 60 Federal HP bulk, 40 CCI Mini Mags, 20 CCI Stingers and the "O" ring still looks new. It was not lubricated. Of the 60 Federals, I had 3 FTFeed. Was rotating three magazines and do not know if all FTF's were from the same magazine. No jambs or other failures of any kind. I doubt the "O" ring had anything to do with the FTF's.

TxRuger65 · July 26th, 2012, 08:24 PM

Got my gun back and took it out. Fired without any issues with Blazers. Does anyone have a pic looking under the barrel at the takedown lever with the lever in in the closed position? I would like to compare to my lever, I think it is different.