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I recently got a new in factory sealed Sig package, Recoil Spring for 229, .40/.357.
It is the old style 3-wire braided coil spring.
It has yellow paint on the end, vs the blue paint that any other recoil springs for the P229 40/357 that I have seen or used in the past.

I will add that this was from a reputable Sig parts dealer that I have purchased many Sig products from.

I seem to recall a rumor about a special recoil spring for ICE P229 pistols Sig was using several years ago with yellow paint on them.

My apologies if I am rehashing old news, but this is the only one I've ever seen with the yellow paint.

What do you think SIGforum? Send it back or use it and forget about the color?
 
Posts: 782 | Location: NW OHIO | Registered: December 31, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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The internet has nothing about yellow paint in my quick search. I wouldn’t use it. Mine are blue.


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Posts: 5041 | Location: Commonwealth of Virginia | Registered: January 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Sig did have P229 yellow spring.
Listed for 40/357 ICE use only.

https://www.midwestgunworks.co.../mgwi/prod/SPRING-29
 
Posts: 1538 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: March 21, 2017Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Interesting. For steady use with hotter loads?




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I'm not positive, but I think I.C.E. was using a hot 155gr 40.
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Posts: 1538 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: March 21, 2017Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I purchased a yellow one myself from Texas Armory. He checked and said all of the ones that he had were yellow. Package said Spring 28. Yellow should a be Spring 29. I returned it and found a blue one elsewhere.
 
Posts: 150 | Location: Long Island, NY | Registered: December 19, 2021Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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ICE was shooting 155gr federal before switching to 180gr. I have seen yellow painted recoils and they work just fine.
 
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