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MG MGA - coupe door handle springs

The coupe outer door handle has a small spiral spring around its axle. G.T. Foster has done a great article on replacing these springs on Barney's Guru Site, dated 2007. Does anyone know where I can get two new springs? (Cecilia does not have them, but my guess is that someone in the UK will have them).
Thanks, Peter.
P. Tilbury

Peter, you've asked a tough one this time. The only supplier I can think of is Brown and Gammons in England; they list the coupe door handle in their catalogue but they don't show the spring as a separate item. However one assumes that someone is making the handle for them.

Otherwise buy some old handles on Ebay and try not to break the spings when you remove them.

Good Luck,

Andy
Andy Preston

Peter,

In Dec. 2006 Colin Parkinson from Halifax in the UK had a batch of springs made up & offered some for sale on this site. Apparently all supplies were taken up very quickly which would indicate some demand for the item.I was fortunate enough to obtain a pair which fitted very well.
May-be Colin can help you out. He can be contacted on "colin@firenet.uk.net"

Good Luck,
Rod.
R Fisher

I had a lot of trouble sourcing these springs years ago and now wonder if one could take some piano wire or similiar of the right gauge and heat it around a tube to form the spring coil and then quench it in oil say to try and re-establish some of its spring properties. I know that one cannot fully reverse the heat process but it might be worth a try. Any metallurgists out there?
J H Cole

I have wound springs on a lathe. This matter came up a couple of years ago and as I recall the wire for these springs is quite a heavy gauge, making do-it-yourself winding a little difficult.
Anyone interested in spring winding might try this site http://home.earthlink.net/~bazillion/intro.html
John DeWolf

Hi Peter, I will look this afternoon I may have 2 springs, if I do I'll let you know. After taking the handles apart I found the pins, not the springs were bad.
Cliff(SC)
Jones

Am I getting old? I think I just proved it without a doubt! I emailed Colin Parkinson yesterday to ask if he had any springs left. (No-one else has been able to come up with a current source.) He told me he had got rid of them all.
Today I was going through my thick Coupe file, and guess what - I found that I bought two springs from Colin in January 2007, "just in case" I needed them. How lucky was that - ordering them I mean, and then finding them, 3 years later.
Rod - thank you for leading me to this conclusion. Now I have one spare spring.
Peter (the dim wit!)
P. Tilbury

Gentlemen,
The good news is that even if this spring breaks the door handle still functions just fine.
Cheers,
GTF
G T Foster

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