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Never met anyone who thought they were “toys”. If they are out there I hope to avoid them forever.

I don’t have an outfitted shop or a Ph.D in metalworking. Why not just buy one from VTI?

Lubriplate 630 AA non-petro white lithium grease on full length of arbor. Most folks and I only use anti-seize on cone threads.

Whew! Get up, go outside and breathe some fresh air. Jeez.

STP: If it’s petroleum based then it’s a loosing proposition.

Lubriplate white lithium grease.

Sure, that’s a Walker but In Larry McMurtry’s book Lonesome Dove McCray carries a Dragoon. It was Deets that carried a Walker, with a broken hammer spur. It was noted that Deets was the only man in the Hat Creek outfit “stout” enough to pack one all day. In the movie Call uses an 1860 but...

Any rational calculation of a risk involves two factors, likelihood & gravity: The likelihood of a mishap occurring; The gravity of the harm should a mishap occur. The likelihood here may be low but the consequences potentially catastrophic. That’s why I’m sticking with the hammer down on an...

I don’t know whether to take the OP seriously or not but some of the responses here are next level OCD.

Nomenclature matters. Cylinders contain chambers, usually six. Chambers are where the lead goes. Springer is right, using .454’s may simplify things.

Those aren’t really shooters, they just happen to be in possession of a Walker for the afternoon.

How old is too old to entertain or consider varying ideas? How old is too old to learn something you can admit you didn’t already know? I’m not there yet - hope I never am. As far as “wasting space” goes, it’s not like you’re paying rent on a storage shed, bub.

No hammers! Use a resin or leather mallet. Mike Beliveau has the best assembly / disassembly vids. Takes newbs all the way through the drill and back again.

VTI GunParts for a new wedge. Don’t know if a new one would be wider than the one you have. It’ll be brand new though.

Dribble? Is that what it is?

It’s an original then, right?

There is more flexibility here than beginners ever imagine. There are about one-hundred ways to load these things - all of them correct. Try 25 grains for starts. On a .44 I range between 25 and 35 grains. Thirty grains verges on perfection. Can’t overload if a ball still fits. Take that...

Keep carding and bring the frame and brass up to speed.

It’s not a problem at all. Colt did a prototype on a 51 Navy type in .40 but it did not fly. They moved on to the .44 1860.

So … No money cause clubby mean-tweets and reasons. Talk about off-key? The guy’s killin it.