cylinder hand

[Nightwind]

Reading the post "'58 revisited", jarred the memory bank to retime the wife's 36 cal. '58. I filed the bevel on the cylinder stop so that the chambers line up with the bore. Now I need a longer cylinder hand.

Does anybody know where I can order one that maybe isn't already ground down. This one is a Pietta.

ps; Now the nipples line up with the hammer slot perfectly too. hint hint :winking: ...Thanks Zonie

 

[John Taylor]

The hand only holds the cylinder when the hammer is in the cocked possition. As soon as you pull the trigger there is room for the cylinder to move. This may not be a problem but a better fix would be to make the bolt/ stop wider and offset to hold the cylinder tight till the hammer gets all the way down. New hands can be bought from Dixie.

 

Every hand I have purchased from Dixie has required removal of metal. Try them.

One can always peen the hand to flow a tiney bit of metal in the proper direction.

Are the chambers lining up with the barrel cone properly?? That is the critical allignment!! The hammer/nipple allignment is a convinient relationship, not critical.

Any phobic compulsion should be aimed at where the bullet is pointed and not how the cap stares at you!!

Timing is done from the barrel/cylender relationship and indexing is measured at the front, not the rear.

 

[Nightwind]

Actually, the hammer pulls back ever so slightly past the full cock position. Then the cylinder stop jumps up and holds it in position. As the thumb eases the hammer forward to the full cock position, the cylinder hand must be retracting a little as well? The cylinder stays put so far.

I can rotate the cylinder backwards with my fingers slightly after full cock, and that's why I figured I needed a longer cylinder hand. But it seems to stay perfectly aligned for now.

But what happens after the first three shots on a fully loaded cylinder? Will the remaining two loaded chambers weigh enough to rotate the cylinder backwards a tad?

Also, other than visually looking down the bore with a flashlight, how do you determine exact alignment of the bore and cylinder chamber?

 

[Doc Arroyo]

Polish or turn a wood dowel to bore size. Slide it down the bore when the unloaded pistol is at full cock. If the dowel won't go into the chamber in the cylinder, then you are out of alignment. Check them all. You may find one bad chamber in a cylinder.

Most pistols that I have checked are a touch out of alignment. You can feel the edges of the cylinder face as the dowel enters the chamber, but not alot. In theory this would effect accuracy, but it does seem to that much. Then again Col.Colt and Mr. Remington weren't making Swiss watches! :hatsoff:

By the way, I by most revolver parts from VTI