Last week I received a Kentucky flint lock pistol which I ordered. It arrives with “NO” flint, we have been through this last week, ask what you shall receive when ordering.
This week, the Uberti Remington 1858 New Army arrives which I ordered. I read all the instructions and proceed through them. I get top the point of, remove the cylinder to properly clean the pistol. I was wondering after removing the cylinder, will it go back in?
The above was a very wrong assumption on my part; the cylinder will not go back into the pistol frame. After repeated attempts to put the cylinder into the frame, no luck.
Okay, I give up and ask the other half to put the gun together. No luck for her either.
I called the vendor and he acted like I was a moron, you can’t put a cylinder back into the pistol? My sense of humor is now gone.
About 15 minutes later the phone rings, it’s the vendor and tells me how to put the cylinder into the pistol. Okay, we talk for 10 minutes and the cylinder will not go into the pistol, this is while he is telling me how he put the same kind of pistol together three (3) times while he is talking to me. I will give him credit for calling to check to on how things are going and he said he will not leave me out to dry.
AAAAARRHHHH.
Off to my friendly gun smith with the pistol the next morning. He is unable to put the cylinder into the pistol off a wager to the coffee fund. From the back of the store arrive 2 more gunsmiths to haggle the boss for his lack of knowledge of guns.
Huh, the other 2 gunsmiths cannot get the cylinder into the pistol after repeated attempts.
The only way anyone could get the cylinder into the pistol was to push in on the pall with a pocket knife.
They miked the gap between the cylinder and the forcing cone and the gap has a .001 clearance and there is no way for the cylinder to go into the pistol, a physical impossibility. They said that normally the pistols have around .003 clearance. Thus there is a problem with the pistol.
I called the people who handle the repairs for Uberti and was treated nicely.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, the vendor said he would take care of me and Uberti will fix things. What irritates me is having to pay extra postage to have a new pistol repaired after having paid to have it shipped originally.
When ordering anything, ask the seller/vendor to do a functional/operability test of the fire arm before shipping it. If the seller/endor will not do so, I will no will not buy from them and pay additional postage to have it repaired.
RDE
This week, the Uberti Remington 1858 New Army arrives which I ordered. I read all the instructions and proceed through them. I get top the point of, remove the cylinder to properly clean the pistol. I was wondering after removing the cylinder, will it go back in?
The above was a very wrong assumption on my part; the cylinder will not go back into the pistol frame. After repeated attempts to put the cylinder into the frame, no luck.
Okay, I give up and ask the other half to put the gun together. No luck for her either.
I called the vendor and he acted like I was a moron, you can’t put a cylinder back into the pistol? My sense of humor is now gone.
About 15 minutes later the phone rings, it’s the vendor and tells me how to put the cylinder into the pistol. Okay, we talk for 10 minutes and the cylinder will not go into the pistol, this is while he is telling me how he put the same kind of pistol together three (3) times while he is talking to me. I will give him credit for calling to check to on how things are going and he said he will not leave me out to dry.
AAAAARRHHHH.
Off to my friendly gun smith with the pistol the next morning. He is unable to put the cylinder into the pistol off a wager to the coffee fund. From the back of the store arrive 2 more gunsmiths to haggle the boss for his lack of knowledge of guns.
Huh, the other 2 gunsmiths cannot get the cylinder into the pistol after repeated attempts.
The only way anyone could get the cylinder into the pistol was to push in on the pall with a pocket knife.
They miked the gap between the cylinder and the forcing cone and the gap has a .001 clearance and there is no way for the cylinder to go into the pistol, a physical impossibility. They said that normally the pistols have around .003 clearance. Thus there is a problem with the pistol.
I called the people who handle the repairs for Uberti and was treated nicely.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, the vendor said he would take care of me and Uberti will fix things. What irritates me is having to pay extra postage to have a new pistol repaired after having paid to have it shipped originally.
When ordering anything, ask the seller/vendor to do a functional/operability test of the fire arm before shipping it. If the seller/endor will not do so, I will no will not buy from them and pay additional postage to have it repaired.
RDE