On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:14:08 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:




Surely you don't mean "main spring," Greg.

As I said, I was just playing along. Quibbling about nomenclature is
silly as long as we all know what we are talking about.
It was clear John was talking about that coily thing that returns the
slide into battery. The mainspring is the one that pushes on the
hammer strut (in that housing behind the magazine well, flat on the
11, arched on the A1).