removing the flat spring

[leedway]

I have always used a large screw driver and pair of needle nose
the screwdriver is used to push the tab in on the flat spring in from the mag well then I use the needle nose to pull out the flat spring.

has anyone ever just used a pair of needle nose and no screwdriver to remove flat spring?

I am a certified HK armorer.

[Backstop]

I did it in less than five seconds with my hemostats using the new flat spring I bought from you an hour earlier: Grip the center tang, light pressure toward the muzzle, push-up with the hemostats, grab spring with fingers, lift.

The point I intended to make while on the phone was that even if in the use of the screwdriver, there would be absolutely no reason for so much force to be required such that the curled end of one of the spring's fingers breaks away from the spring - an indicator that the center tang was not depressed sufficiently enough and was still catching polymer; as obviated by the depressions in that area under hi-power looking glass.

I've got an RA# from Columbus, GA. Just going to send it on in to Trussville. Then sell it when it comes back. I will not own a firearm where the serial numbers are not matched between the slide & frame.

Field expedient methods are only acceptable when it all hits the fan in theater - wherever "theater" happens to be. Beyond that, a screwdriver that could be used to adjust the drum brakes on a one-ton Chevrolet has no place in a nearly 1000.00 pistol designed to exacting standards of precision German engineering.

I am not a certified Hk armorer.