Good Morning,

Another question. Wrote in earlier about missing cylinder & received inputs as to where I could find one. Lots of help but none available. Returned from Mid West & lo & behold the company that had blued the frame, found the cylinder that they did not have. They returned to Gun Shop but did not blue it. Gun shop owner wanted to keep it until he had found another company to do blueing. He will have it blued when he finds Company. I wanted to put it togerther. I did, it shoots great. Now my question. According to Numrich there are two sideplate with different hammer blocks. The block on mine is an integrel part of the side plate, pressed in. When you cock it the hand cams against the block & moves it out of the way of the hammer. With the gun cocked, I can see about an 16th to a 32nd of the hammer block protruding. When I lower the hammer, I can feel the hammer hitting the hammer block. Is this normal, or is the hammer block out of possition. I have Jerry Kuhnhausen's book, but there is no mention of this.

Thank,

Rn Grnwd

What you describe does not sound right to me, but unless there is evidence of a heavy drag mark on the side of the hammer (or worse, the protruding block keeps the revolver from firing), I'd say there is no problem. When you lower the hammer, I take it you are keeping the trigger in back position so that the hand's relation to the embedded block does not change. If you are letting the trigger back forward, then the hand is also retreating and the hammer block is starting to function as intended.

Unless you have given the lockwork and inner side plate a thorough cleaning, there is the chance that some grime is keeping the embedded hammer block from going through its full range of motion. Or maybe it is just slightly bent. I had a heavily used prewar gun once in which the hammer block channel was so thoroughly fouled that the block action was a sometime thing. After I soaked it in BreakFree and brushed it out, it worked fine.

Apologies if my response is off target. I may not completely grasp the mechanical actions you are describing.

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David Wilson

Dave,

Thanks for reply. You are on target. Trigger is back. I really think that this is normal, but wanted other opinions since I can find no literature on it. Gun is clean. I had it completely broke down for cleaning, sanding, filing & polishing prior to sending for blue job. I think the way this works is the reason for modifications to the hammer block. No obvious wear on right side of hammer where it contacts the block.

Rn Grnwd

I don't have much to add except to say that its really good you got your cylinder back. I was "steaming" when you told us this story last month about the cylinder being lost by the gunsmith/refinisher. Hope everything ends up working out for you on your Brazil project.

Thanks for the reply. Gun is working good. I have not used the moon clips yet. I was mainly concerned about timing etc. I fired 40 rounds through it with no problems. Per usual with all my guns, it shoots better than I can hold it. I have the original grips which are really beat up but they have the S&W tabs (wrong word, but I'm old and allowed to forget). I picked up a used pair of Herret grips, sanded off the checkering & installed for a better grip. Used a Zip dril & files to cut out a slot for the lanyard ring.

Again thanks for your interest.

Rn Grnwd

You will wake up in the middle of some night around 2:30 AM silently talking to yourself say " They are called medallions. they are called medallions:

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I'm going to write that down before I forget it again.

Spent 3 in Corps & 27 in the AF. Son spent 16 in Corps, now works for Bell as Rotar head test pilot.

Thanks for reply,

Rn Grnwd