Cylinder for Uberti Remington Navy

[krkrzy]

Hi I just bought a great Uberti New Model Navy 36 caliber and am trying to find a spare cylinder for it. The Pietta cylinders won't work with the Ubertis as I have heard that the Uberti are closer to the originals. I bought a cylinder from a dealer and had to return it as it would not fit the Uberti. Will I have to go to the factory? Any suggestions?
Thanks R Edwards

 

[renovato]

Cylinders shouldn't be too hard to find, as folks sometimes buy an extra or two. You might check Dixie or Track of the Wolf. They usually keep a good selection of parts available.

 

[mykeal]

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The third item 5, part number UB:110005.

Buying any cylinder for any gun is a bit of a manure shoot. Cylinders are moving close tolerance parts, and sometimes the tolerance buildup is against you. I'd take the gun and the cylinder to a gunsmith for custom fitting if it doesn't work out at first.

 

[Patrick Hemken]

If you look at the fine print on cylinders, you know that little scrible..., you will see "fitting may be required by a gun smith" I just picked up a Rem Cattlemans Carbine with two cap and ball cylinders and a new Converison LC cyclinder. Had to shave off .013 to make it work. Good luck finding one off the shelf. Perhaps you can ship the gun to a supplier and have them try it out. Your going to pay a lot of shipping back and forth right now otherwise.

Pat

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Excellent advice :thumbsup: ! Some of those "drop-in" parts don't quite drop-in. Same can be said for cartridge conversion cylinders as well. Best fit is sometimes found by sending the gun to the cylinder place for a proper fit.

Dave

 

[mazo kid]

+1 on what smokin 50 said. Two out of three of my conversion cylinders dropped right in; the other one required a bit of file-try-file-try, etc. Emery

 

[TANSTAAFL]

May be true for some, but on my Pietta Rem 58 .44, I bought two spare cylinders and the fit up for both was as good (which was great) as the original that came with the pistol.

 

[krkrzy]

Thanks for all of the good advice, I finally got frustrated and bought a cylinder from Cabela's and took the file to it, I had to file down the cylinder to fit, I was able to do that and it works great, however it is not blued but I will leave it that way to be able to tell the cylinders apart. Thanks again for all of the good advice.
RBE