help with a 686 cylinder hand

[walter o]

Is the pivot pin on the hand supposed to be loose on the hand of a 686 -2?
If not what type of new hand do i need ?How could the pin come loose ?

 

[Nightowl]

You may have what is called a "floating" hand! That was a short lived design, and should be replaced with a standard type one. A picture is worth a thousand words here, to see if my guess is right. If it is functioning correctly you can leave it alone. If it is not functioning correctly, you can replace it with a standard hand. You need measure the width of the hand across the tip, standard width is .092 to .095 and oversize will be up to .099. It has been my limited experience that a new hand will need to be wider by .002 than the floating hand you are replacing. May just be my experience, so you might want to get several of different widths. Sometimes the wider hands need the frame slot opened to allow the hand to slid in the slot. To me that is a last resort and most likely your gun is not worn that much yet. A visit to a good gunsmith may be worthwhile if your are not used to working inside the sideplate.

 

[walter o]

sir i am familiar with a floating hand . This is a problem with the pivot pin that the hand rotates on , not the small pin that the spring works on ,
the hand will lift off of the pin it supposed to pivot on ,

 

[Nightowl]

sir i am familiar with a floating hand . This is a problem with the pivot pin that the hand rotates on , not the small pin that the spring works on ,
the hand will lift off of the pin it supposed to pivot on ,

That is the pin the floating hand uses. If it is not a floating hand, then the pin and body no longer fit and the whole hand needs to be replaced.

 

[walter o]

sorry I may have not under stood, the hand has 2 pins that fit into the trigger 1 that it pivots (rotates) on,and 1 that the torson spring inside the trigger
acts on.If this is a floating hand i was mistaken on my reply to you