With a little perseverance a fella can make one. Start with annealed spring steel stock of proper thicknes and file/grind/bend to shape. Heat, quench, temper- done. Guys have been doing it for literally hundreds of years- if a backwoods blacksmith/gunsmith in 1760 could do it, so can you!
....was thinking the same things but hadnt got there yet... I have tried to repair/rejuvinate the original one in it...(was broken..) couple time trying to weld, shape, etc....but could never get the spring back in it...
dave
