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In addition to the hammer assembly, the kit includes the mainspring, the ambidextrous safety assembly, and an extra power plunger spring.
What they've done is built a locking mechanism into the mainspring housing of the 1911 design.
A smooth border edges the mainspring housing and front of the grip strap to reduce drag and snag when carried concealed under.
The next step involves the external fitting of the safety, beavertail and mainspring housing.
Lifting the bolt handle to extract the fired case and compress the mainspring is very difficult.
In Murphy's account, the mainspring of Douglas's public career was his aching, but never fulfilled, ambition for the presidency.
I would be very careful in replacing a mainspring with one that is less than half as strong as the former.
Maybe there's no firing pin, maybe it's broken, or perhaps the mainspring is weak.
I did get a few misfires, so I believe a stronger mainspring or perhaps a longer firing pin or both would take care of this.
The only recurring mechanical problem uncovered in my informal canvass of enthusiasts was mainspring breakage.
The mainspring, and other parts do need to be checked and cleaned a little further.
The actual percussion lock has been modernized to include a coil mainspring and parts proven reliable and trouble-free.
The need to feed a drugs habit is the mainspring behind much violent crime, say police.
The vital mainspring in this process is the party, just as the vital mainspring in the mechanism of the party is its leadership.
It is they who constitute the mainspring of our human resources, the Community's most valuable asset.
Globalisation is the mainspring of democracy and prosperity for underdeveloped countries.
At the age of 85, he presented to the Geneva Society of Arts a non-magnetic chronometer in which only the mainspring and pinions were of steel.
Could this new regional organization serve as the mainspring of the drive for greater economic and political integration in South America?
Instead of personal gain-seeking being viewed as the mainspring of progress, it was perceived to sow the seeds for economic polarization, and hence social discord and decay.
If we were told that there was a watch without a mainspring, we would hardly be reassured by the further information that it had, however, an infinite train of gear-wheels.
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Examples from Classical Literature
That need is the mainspring of life, the key to heaven, and the root of all evil.
Mentally he was wondering if this was the mainspring of conduct in all women.
The words were an echo of those which formed the mainspring of the Admiral's life.
Perhaps this had originally been the mainspring of the understanding between them.
That it should do so it must follow now and for ever the ideas that are the mainspring of Pan-Islamism.
Love must always be the mainspring of life and honour its loftiest ideal.
Here, in truth, lay the mainspring of this strangely-constituted organization.
The navy was the mainspring of Victoria in more ways than one.
It was the silicon bronze mainspring of his non-magnetic watch.
If I was to go, that 'ouse would run down like a watch with the mainspring out.
But, losing her brother, the mainspring of her life seemed broken.
This relieves that heavy mainspring tension, and leaves only the recoil spring to resist the shooter's rearward pull of the slide.
If the mainspring is bad or inoperative, break it, and choose another.
For that was really the mainspring of her fantastic actions.
You see, the mainspring of her nature must have been vanity.
In spite of the gulf set between us, you will still be the mainspring of all my actions, and all the virtues are inspired by penitence and love.
That this dog and White Fang should come together was inevitable, and for a week the anticipated fight was the mainspring of conversation in certain quarters of the town.
It will probably now be evident that the mainspring of the undeniable and volcanic power of 'Sartor Resartus' is a tremendous moral conviction and fervor.
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