I am fairly certain especially after Bad Karma found the documentation on bedding the arbor, that Colt would have made sure the arbor was properly seated. I can state from repairing Walkers that full house loads fired on a short arbor will stretch things to the point of the wedge becoming so loose that it falls out when the pistol is turned sideways. The only ones that demolish wedges are the ones that aren't set up properly. When the wedge is tapped in firmly and everything is held tight it's not going to destroy the wedge. I own an ASM Walker that stretched the frame and bent the wedge into a slight crescent shape. This was before the arbor correction. I made a wedge after all the work was done to get the pistol back to shootable shape, It hasn't shown any signs of becoming loose, no changes to the barrel/cylinder gap. I shoot full house loads with both ball and conical. Another thing that eases the pressure on the barrel assembly is to cut a proper forcing cone in the barrel.
Keeping Walker cylinder turning freely
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