1858 Remmi Euroarms present for me

[bothenook]

So i have this horrible habit of messing things up, then going out and figuring out what I should have done differently......after the fact. Broke a ROA base pin by not remembering to turn the darned retaining screw 90 degrees after i cleaned and lubed. should have thought something was up when by the third round I tried ramming down went really, really hard.
I just became the proud owner of a brandy new never fired, stored in the box stainless ROA (my second) and the dude tossed in a Euroarms 1858. ROAs are rapidly becoming a known entity, but these Remingtons are a whole new ball game. According to the marks, it's a 1972 vintage pistol, looks to be about a 6 1/2 blued barrel and frame with a brass trigger gaurd. The metal and wood work/fit is excellent. It doesn't even look like it was ever fired, but the tin of Remington center fire caps have about 12 missing (yeah, white can, red dot on the top). The front sight is dovetailed in and the blade looks like someone tried adjusting the POI by bending it a bit to the right. No tooling marks on the blade though.
So here's the question I'm posing to the gurus: Over the years, various manufacturers produced firearms of varying levels of quality. Are there any specific no-nos with this vintage pistol, from this manufacturer? BP revolvers are a brand new to this old shooter, and I'd hate to wreck a second gun by not having enough info to prevent it. Any thoughts on on-hand spare parts to replace known high failure rate bits and pieces?
many thanks for any and all info you might have to share. I've learned an amazing amount of stuff banging around the various threads here.

 

[Zonie]

Sounds to me like your chief concern should be the ROA. Parts for these are getting almost impossible to find anymore.

As for the Remington, about the only parts I've heard of that can cause a problem is the spring on the hand that rotates the cylinder.

A few have had problems with the loading lever latch coming loose from the barrel.

Beyond that they are pretty rugged pistols.

 

[bothenook]

thanks zonie. yup, the ROA is going to be a problem, especially since the base pin is now in two pieces......
Looks like a belt mt. pin and latch assy is in my immediate future. the second ROA will be treated with kid gloves, especially since I know at least one way of breaking the gun now.
the remmi is a really sweet looking firearm. very clean lines. found winchester suttler for a source of spares on the euroarms front, so it looks like parts will not be insurmountable like they are for the ruger. just to be safe, i've ordered a loading stand from black dog. looks robust enough to handle even my clutz moves.
BTW, the presentation case the remington came in has a paper label "Hawes Firearms Co.". weren't they a player in the 70's importing replicas under their own brand? wonder if they are still in business. time to visit the search engines.

 

[M. De Land]

Can you lay out the broken parts and post a picture of them on here. I'm very curious what exactly broke.
Most things like that can be carefully jigged and TIG welded and made good as new.
I just pulled mine out of the safe and took it apart for a look see. I bet it broke at the retaining cutout in the base pin. If so you can do as I already described or turn a new one and mill out the head. This part is small enough to do on a Unimat lathe I think. MD

 

[bothenook]

yup, at the notch. probably could have recovered with a lighter touch trying to bend it back straight enough to fit back into the gun..... and i took the pieces to our welder to see if he would be able to work his magic. he told me that the hardened steel (the fracture was very grainy, indicating brittle, not ductile fracture)would be a sumbich to weld with any real luck of success.