I bought a post-war 1917 that arrived without a hammer block. The part # is N53. I've already tried Jack First and Numrich without any luck. Much appreciate any help if anyone has this part for sale, or any ideas on where one might be found.

Thanks.

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Cy

Since yours is a post war one, it could have the same one that was used in the late Victory Models and in the immediate postwar K frame guns. If so , it looks like the modern hammer block but the dimensions are different. Can you post a photo of the inside of your revolver and of the inside of the sideplate also? If you can lay a scale near where the hammerblock would ride in the sideplate that would help.

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That was a good idea. I'm pretty sure that it still would have been an uphill climb, even if the post-war K and N frames carried the same hammer block. But an interesting exercise, so I pulled the side plates on a late SV serial numbered Victory and a post-war 1917 transition model.

Imagine my surprise when I then pulled the plate on the Brazilian 1917 and found it wasn't cut for a hammer block after all. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I am conditioned to expect the part to fall out of latter guns, or to see one attached to the side plate on the earlier guns. I had looked all over for it when I originally cleaned the internals, thinking it had popped off the table when the I popped off the side plate. Somewhere along the line I didn't examine the side plate but convinced myself somehow I had.

While I was mulling over the idea that there was never a hammer block fitted to this WWI framed/post-war shipped, export type 1917, I reassembled all three without comparing the K frame hammer block with the N frame part. I wasn't about to pull them again tonight, so that's an experiment for another time.

Thanks for the post and the idea. At least I didn't search for weeks, pay way too much for a part and then find out the darn thing never had one fitted.

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