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My Rivoli upright project is in final stages. The Heineman motor has two spring barrels, the barrel with the winding gear just spins My question concerns the rivet on each barrel -- do the springs merely hook on the rivet or must the rivet be replaced in order to replace spring?? Thanks

Bill K

I never saw a rivet that had to be removed. You will find a hook on the inside.

I've just done the spring on a Heineman motor. The rivet is fixed, and the spring has a pear-shaped hole in the end that hooks over the rivet.

Thank you gentlemen - guess I'll buy 2 springs and give it a whirl. Who carries these springs? Thanks


Bill K

Ron Sitko has these springs.

Bill
Make sure you mark the direction the springs wind or unwind. I scratch an arrow in the bottom of the drum so when you get the new springs you'll know how to put them in.At least take some pictures.

Kevan

Kevan wrote:Bill
Make sure you mark the direction the springs wind or unwind. I scratch an arrow in the bottom of the drum so when you get the new springs you'll know how to put them in.At least take some pictures.

Kevan

Thanks I'll give Sitko a call. I've only replaced one spring (or tried to)since I got into this hobby in 1970, I was living and working in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It got away from me and bounced all over the kitchen (marble floors), almost killed the dog and sliced the tip of my shoe

Have a good weekend Cheers

Bill K

dutchman wrote:

Kevan wrote:Bill
Make sure you mark the direction the springs wind or unwind. I scratch an arrow in the bottom of the drum so when you get the new springs you'll know how to put them in.At least take some pictures.

Kevan

Thanks I'll give Sitko a call. I've only replaced one spring (or tried to)since I got into this hobby in 1970, I was living and working in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It got away from me and bounced all over the kitchen (marble floors), almost killed the dog and sliced the tip of my shoe

Have a good weekend Cheers

Bill K

That's why I send my spring work to a pro. I'd as soon not have to spend my remaining "golden years" with various body parts shredded.

Clay

FloridaClay wrote:

dutchman wrote:

Kevan wrote:Bill
Make sure you mark the direction the springs wind or unwind. I scratch an arrow in the bottom of the drum so when you get the new springs you'll know how to put them in.At least take some pictures.

Kevan

Thanks I'll give Sitko a call. I've only replaced one spring (or tried to)since I got into this hobby in 1970, I was living and working in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It got away from me and bounced all over the kitchen (marble floors), almost killed the dog and sliced the tip of my shoe

Have a good weekend Cheers

Bill K

That's why I send my spring work to a pro. I'd as soon not have to spend my remaining "golden years" with various body parts shredded.

Clay

After watching a few training tapes on You Tube think I shall defer to your infinite sagacity and call Sitko.......Cheers Bill K

I've only done one 2 spring Victor motor myself and took the advice of something I saw online about removing the spring in a pillowcase and went a step further and did that inside one of those Home Depot 5 gallon buckets. Worked out well, I think the rougher part was putting it back in and hands seemed to cramp up a bit from that part of the process. That being said, when it was time to overhaul a 4 spring Credenza motor, I sent the whole thing out