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Hi All,
The Honker thread has me curious. I was told by someone that I shouldn't throw complete sidelocks into a hyrosonic cleaner as it can mess up the leaf springs.
Has anyone experienced leaf springs breaking or any other issues after using a hydrosonic cleaner?
Having springs made is something I would really like to avoid, on the other hand disassembling and then reassembling locks isn't real high on my list either.
Thanks

Ultrasonic cleaning. No, I highly doubt a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner could fatigue a spring and break it.

In regards to disassembly before cleaning. I always fully disassemble the locks, action, etc before putting all the bits into the ultrasonic. Everything including the ejector work gets completely torn down. I do this because if there’s any corrosion whatsoever on the parts, the ultrasonic will clean that out and the parts will come out spotted and blotchy at times. You should polish the bits until the blotchiness is gone and it all matches up as polished steel. Lube and then reassemble.

Another note…..not all ultrasonics are equal. There’s things called ultrasonic cleaners and there’s real ultrasonic cleaners. It’s all in the power of the transducers. The cheap ones just don’t cut it in my experience.

Thanks Gents, small sample size but I will go ahead and try. I seem to have accumulated a large hoard of Pieper/Bayard hammerguns and have found they are mostly interchangeable on the lock parts if same design. After paying to have a spring made, I found it can be cheaper to buy a basket case gun - sort of like cars and motorcycles. Easier to swap out an entire lock than to harvest a spring but they are often filthy.