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Obsolete Recoil Spring

I guess that my question is whether it would be reasonable to make one with some stock spring steel. Could anyone comment on this?
 
rglouc said:
What does one normally do in this type of situation? Is there something to do other than wait for one to appear on ebay?

Thankyou.
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You could go to your local Mercury dealership with the part number (42194A2) and ask them if they could help locate one for you using their Non-Active Parts Inquiry system. The list of mercury dealers that have this part number in stock is long.;):) Good luck.
 
I never knew that something like that existed. I had naively assumed that an hour of searching for the part number, or related parts numbers would yield anything that was available.

Why do they hide the "Non-Active Parts Inquiry" system from us? Protect the dealers maybe.
 
For the record, I repaired the recoil spring. I had lost ~10" of the original spring, but it works ok for now.

In order to put a bend in the end of the spring, I tempered it by heating it with a torch until red hot. The original spring end had been tempered in this way, as it also was also malleable and non-spring-steel-like.
 
Many of these motors ended up on the rack for parts.----------Should be lots of good used springs around, especially on the electric start models.-Availability may depend on where you are.
 
Sorry to bring up an old thread. I just broke the recoil spring 42194A on my 9.9 mariner! To brittle to repair. There's one on ebay for over $100 shipped. Any alternatives? Nobody local has any.
 
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