Keeping Walker cylinder turning freely

[Smokerr]

I'm a counter puncher, someone gets rude with me I tend to react in kind.

Spot on, I don't start things but I have ended a few.

As one boss explained me to management, he is a technician not a politician.

When someone spews technically incorrect stuff and presents it as gospel, then they not only deserve what they get, they need to be shutdown. We have enough Internet lies, we don't need them in a technical area. In fact they need to be snuffed.

Back about 6th grade a young girl decided she had every right to cut in front of me in a line . I just gently moved her out of the line. Well, I have every right. No you do not, you can ask, but you have no right. Ladies first does not apply here.

So she kicked me! I kicked her right back, as easy as I could. She is now totally incensed. You can't do that, you just ruined my nylon! I hate to tell you this, but obviously I can. Well, I am reporting you to the teacher. Go right ahead, no one hits me and does not get hit back, count yourself lucky I pulled the kick. You gave up any deference to being a girl when you kicked me. Off to the back of the line she went. Funny no one else was giving her cuts either.

Yes I was taught you never hit a female. But the flip to that respect is they don't attack you. After that the minimum force needed to stop it. I had one brother who stopped to help a woman in the ditch. Turns out she was drunk and then attacked him. Bro, you should have punched her.

 

[Smokerr]

Yap, so far in this thread I've been told my ideas are dumb and I'm ignorant and want to remain that way !!

Mike

To add insult to this, they are not ideas, they are executed and proven in fact. That is enough to tick off the Pope. Which guy did they persecute because he burst bubbles about planetary relationships? Well do the math, my pencils out and yours does not.

I had a hard time figuring out what Mike was explaining, he was patient with me. Its not I don't understand tech, its this obscure branch of tech that had me flumoxed. In fact I insulted him over some stuff I had read on the internet (sound familiar). I can at least man up and bless Mike, he did not take umbrage but kept patient with me.

So, not understanding it and working through it is one thing. Flat saying someone does not know what they are doing when they have proven they indeed do know what they are doing and talking about, that is the height of a lot of things, but astute sure is not one of them.

 

[Smokerr]

So, Mike has stated a number of time that stacking shims is not the way to fix these. I have enough tech background that I got it, but I did not want to take the time to do it right. When the gap closed up, I would add a beer can shim. Not right, but it works and I don't shoot so much that an excessive gap is an issue. More unmentionable in the winter as loading chambers in the cold is no fun.

So, my gap is gone, yep, my beer can spacer crushed. Now, I may be stubborn but I can pull an occasional rabbit out of the hat. What shim materiel do I have? Brass cases, so I carve a shim out of a brass case.

Was it right? Nope, big gap, .012. Did it work, yea, I was able to keep shooting and the results were good. I wasn't shooting BP so did not have the larger crud erupting.

Am I fixing the spacer right? Yep. Started last night.

But, I did not discount what Mike said, I was just lazy or stubborn or both and knew what the consequences could be. I should have had a bit of beer can material in my shooting stuff if I was really thinking.

 

[D Yager]

One thing that chaps my backside is when someone changes the narrative and then takes credit for the idea that someone else presented. That and telling you that their way is the only one. Plus laying out a bunch of technical gobblygook that has nothing to do with what the original conversation was about. I am awaiting a certain somebodies response to some questions I threw at him. He's been quiet for a while... guess he's busy looking up answers to my questions.

 

[D Yager]

That is one method of several, a fellow called Pettifogger would drill and tap the end of the arbor and use a button head screw for the correction. It takes a bit of work to get it right but its a good fix. Another method is to weld up the end of the arbor and dress it back to get the fit you want. Depending on how bad the gap is determines what method I use. On one of my shop guns I turned about .030 off the cylinder face to get things to fit. Only problem with this method is the gun becomes truly custom as a replacement cylinder would have to treated in the same way. I am always experimenting and trading ideas on different ways to do the arbor fix.

 

[SPQR70AD]

They can certainly be made into fun accurate and reliable pistols....just fix the short arbor if it hasn't been done already. With a cap post, action shield, action stop and a bolt guide they are even better.

so in other words cut the pistol up for scrap

 

[D Yager]

That's a peculiar response. Just saying with a little work and improvements they can be made into solid reliable pistols

 

[45D]

so in other words cut the pistol up for scrap

Who does that ? Makes absolutely no sense . . .

 

[Dickydalton]

There's more than one empty gumball machine on this forum...

 

[deerstalkert]

me thinks a bit of etoh is involved with some of the sniping done here.

 

[French Colonial]

We went from "how to keep a Walker cylinder turning" to this....

 

[SPQR70AD]

Who does that ? Makes absolutely no sense . . .

I meant with all the work has to be done to a NEW open top better off cut into scrap