Originally Posted by
clarky
In all due respects i would actually flip your comments over on their head.....the walther is actually over sprung in its std stock format .....I have worked on the 53 for years and many years before this mod was offered by Proteks..
It is a fabulous gun but i wanted to try and improve it.....probably because it looked fabulous.
The issue is that in the 50s Walther decided on duel mainsprings to give it power from the relatively short stroke but they did not need to over spring it in this way.
The Walther is actually very efficient in its ratios of stroke against piston diameter and almost perfectly balanced with the stock transfer port size.....far more so than any webley pistol.
This is a near on 500 fps gun set up right and not needing of binding and boingy duel springs.
Correctly guide rodded with a spring of similar .....or even slightly less power than that of the duel springs, the single spring will actually place the system under less force and wear will be smoother to cock and fire and the speed of the piston will be much quicker...
So the question is.....why would one not wish to improve it in this way, provided we did not permanently alter the gun, and retain the original internals for a future collector if passed on.
I have converted one of mine to a short k version which looks fantastic and handles even better but im not suggesting that.
Ill wager mine will out shoot yours in accuracy and power terms, is more useful over FT knock downs and everyone loves the thing at my club, consistantly out shooting a HW45
Both mine run 480 to 490 fps and super smooth with potential for 1/2" gps at 10 yards