RL51 spray gun rebuild

Pat Norman

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Russ, I've got an RL51 gun I'm rebuilding. I've rebuilt Suttners many times but this is my first RL51. Anyway I have a rebuild kit and tore into it today and found the spring that goes against the ball is broken in two. It is not in the rebuild kit. I assume it is stainless steel? Going to look for one at a hardware but doubt I will find it. Is that something you stock?
 
Yeah I mostly use Suttner easy pulls. The RL51 is nice too. Comes stock with a ss ball and since I'm rebuilding im going with the ceramic ball option. Gun has been sitting a year before I found a diagram to show how to rebuild it. I was surprised how corroded the ss ball was and really surprised the spring broke. The spring wasn't corroded don't know why it broke.
 
I can get the spring by itself. I'll have to check availability tomorrow. It is stainless. Here's a breakdown of that gun with the spring dimensions.
 
Pat, that spring is going to cost you a whopping $2.81, but it's special order, so it will have to come in from my supplier in about a week, and then another couple of days to you. I do have a spring and ball out of a scrapped gun...yours free with $5.50 Priority Mail.
 
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