Before I knew anything about how the coil spring and support foot worked, I yanked out the entire set up because the plastic cover was completely broken up and the window wasn't staying open. I thought the replacement part would be one piece, not two or three. Now I realize that the cover is the only thing that was broken and I probably could have simply repositioned the coils, replaced the plastic cover and rescrewed it in over the functional coils.
What's further unfortunate is that I didn't take a picture of the coils before yanking them out and discarding them. Because there is nothing on the window to identify the manufacturer, I planned to to remove an intact functional coil spring unit on another window in order to take a picture of the inside for identification for replacement purposes, but am flumoxed as to how to remove the 5" coil springs and cover from a 2 " cut out area of side jamb which only barely allows removal of the 2" support foot.
All the videos I found show a large enough cut out to simply pry the coils out within the cutout area in one piece. I do know that the coils had 33" and #5 on them. I hope the picture I sent is enough to illustrate the narrative of my dilemma.
