What do you do with old magazine springs and followers?

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What do you all do with old springs/followers?

I replaced a bunch of prebans with new springs and magpul followers. Any use for the old springs and black followers?
 
If they're worn out, trash. Same with broken mags. In the old days i used to throw broken mags downrange and shoot them. (where permitted, lol).

-Mike
 
Keep them, just in case.
i'm confused, why would you guys want to replace suspected springs and then keep them? springs are cheap enough, if i'm buying magazine springs I tend to get a few extra.

light bulb on now.....i'm going to have a huge sale in classified on old, worn mag springs. look out for it, coming soon.
 
i'm confused, why would you guys want to replace suspected springs and then keep them? springs are cheap enough, if i'm buying magazine springs I tend to get a few extra.

light bulb on now.....i'm going to have a huge sale in classified on old, worn mag springs. look out for it, coming soon.

Maybe also they have some kind of exorcism or gnomish mysticism we're not aware of that they they can use to impart on magazine springs to restore them to full strength.... [rofl]

-Mike
 
i'm confused, why would you guys want to replace suspected springs and then keep them? springs are cheap enough, if i'm buying magazine springs I tend to get a few extra.

light bulb on now.....i'm going to have a huge sale in classified on old, worn mag springs. look out for it, coming soon.

Good point. I'm guessing there are enough DIY skinflints here that would cut springs from old G17 mags for a G26. Leave in a couple extra coils to give it that 10% extra power. BOOM! Saved $2 here.

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i'm confused, why would you guys want to replace suspected springs and then keep them? springs are cheap enough, if i'm buying magazine springs I tend to get a few extra.

light bulb on now.....i'm going to have a huge sale in classified on old, worn mag springs. look out for it, coming soon.
Well he said he changed out some prebans, I did the same just because I got them used and to upgrade to the newer followers. They still worked fine but since I had them apart I did the springs as well. So ya I kept the old ones.
 
Anyone know where to get replacement springs for 20 round mags? Several people have said to take a 30 round spring and cut it down.
 
I'd keep the followers in case you resell them. I've found some of the mag buyers here are quite picky and won't touch something that doesn't appear period-correct.
 
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