The Cadlac Effect

[Maghog]

You're thinking of spring steel, the steel that they make springs out of.

It's an interesting version that you have there, and using a thick enough piece of spring steel might work. I could see some different kinds of problems happening, but it also could work well.

I can't wait to see what happens,
Dan

[blake20]

Bending steel for a living

What you need is some tempered steel that would hold it's shape, or a small pc of flat stock spring steel. For a pc of tempered steel you might try steel banding material, it's cheap and readily available but hard to work with. As for spring steel good luck I have not seen any as thin as your looking for but I'm sure it's made.

[TippmannGuy]

I would try to temper it by heating the piece with a torch or heat source then cool it rapidly by placing the piece in water. You can try this and it'll cost you nothing but time. I would look to get the steel to change shade to a light orange, shade immerse it in water then test in the tigger.

Hopefully this can help you complete your project

[Beezleboss]

you could try a piece of fiberglass, its stiff and springy, but it would probably have to be thicker than that piece of steel in the pic
or maybe some stainless

[ManInBlack]

I'll try that, thanks.

[snoopay700]

you could try a piece of fiberglass, its stiff and springy, but it would probably have to be thicker than that piece of steel in the pic
or maybe some stainless

Fiberglass would probably break. Stainless would probably bend.

[ManInBlack]

I'm going to try for some spring steel and see what I can do. I tried tempering a piece of what I have and it bends even easier.

[warbeak2099]

Magnets?

Woah that would be interesting. He'd need a magnet on the end of the sear rod and a magnet on the trigger.

[ManInBlack]

That would have to be a pretty strong magnet.

[snoopay700]

That would have to be a pretty strong magnet.

Ah, i'm sure you could do it

Get the rare earth ones that you can't get apart if you get them stuck, or get huge ones, but i don't think magnets would work.

[TwilightG]

Woah that would be interesting. He'd need a magnet on the end of the sear rod and a magnet on the trigger.

I was thinking that he could use a magnet on the back of the trigger and a magnet on metal strip. This would be similar to putting a spring between the two and possibly help prevent the metal from bending...

Either way, they'd probably need to be pretty strong.

[Beezleboss]

Fiberglass would probably break. Stainless would probably bend.

thats what i was thinking about the fiberglass too, but id say its worth a try cuz its cheap and easy to work with, but i wouldnt go out and buy the cloth and resin if thats all i was gonna use it for, but about the stainless, i thought it was stiffer, another idea though, maybe use a piece of an old hacksaw blade, i dont think that would bend

[MAGslinger]

I wish I could get one of my trigger frames modified with that! It would be nice if you posted a how-to for that (they already have a how-to for phneumags for crying out loud). Once your done please let us all know how you did it.

[ManInBlack]

Uh, I used a hacksaw and some files? Not much to it other than that.

[ManInBlack]

I HAVE FOUND THE MOTHERLOAD!!!

So I went up to my dad's place because he has a bunch of junk in the garage and I remembered seeing some bandsaw blades there before. Turns out he had a broken one I can use for this. It's about 10 feet long and almost 1.5 inches wide! There is enough steel in my basement right now to make a couple hundred of these triggers. In any case, here's what my trigger looks like now:




I actually had to thin the metal down a bit. It will now bend all to way until it touches the main part of the trigger and it comes right back, no permanent bending. It still may be too strong, but I can't test it because I have no air until friday.