Help with Model 3

[moralem]

Which part would it be in Chicoine's assembly illustration?

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[BMur]

Replacement pin

See photo.

A replacement pin would help a lot but the boss is worn also so the proper repair would be to fit and press an oversized pin to the hammer and saddle link.

Murph

 

[moralem]

For now, since it isn't getting shot, I will just see about understanding the mechanism and try to find smith who might be able to help.

 

[moralem]

Well I found some .44 Russian but I am hesitant to shoot it. No smiths around here in north Texas that would know how to give it a clean bill of health. I have checked the lock up and it does work. I think the young kids at the gun shop thought the rotation of the cylinder lining up with the barrel meant it was out of time….but I don't think that is the case. I think it is simply the cylinder locking up coming from the free wheeling state that it goes into when you break open the gun. There is no detent to hold the cylinder in line with the barrel and it freely rotates. But once you cock the gun it lines the barrel up with the cylinder, at least that is my assertion. I want to shoot it but I don't know if I should.

 

[iby]

If it locks up tight when you have pulled the trigger and you hold the trigger down it is probably good to go.
Rig it to fire in SA with a cord
do it a few times

 

[moralem]

If it locks up tight when you have pulled the trigger and you hold the trigger down it is probably good to go.
Rig it to fire in SA with a cord
do it a few times

That is what I was thinking….it holds tight when I hold the trigger down after pulling the trigger so I am very tempted.


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[JDBoardman]

Looking at your photos, the headstamp on the ammunition shows .44 Magnum. I sincerely hope that is not what you have loaded into the cylinder, as it will send parts of the venerable revolver into low earth orbit.

 

[Frontier44]

I don't think you are reading the headstamp correctly. Clearly says 44 Russian.

 

[iby]

fortunately 44 mag will not fit.

 

[Frontier44]

Now my eyes are playing tricks on me! Do the chamber walls of that cylinder look extremely thin to anyone else?

 

[moralem]

Now my eyes are playing tricks on me! Do the chamber walls of that cylinder look extremely thin to anyone else?

Let me get a picture up, I sure would like to know. This gun may just wind up as a wall hanger.


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[moralem]

Some do look thinner than others.


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[Frontier44]

Mic the chamber throats. They may have been bored out or someone has removed metal from the outside of the cylinder.

This chamber looks bigger than the others. There's no step down inside any of the chambers either.

 

[Model19man]

Looking at your photos, the headstamp on the ammunition shows .44 Magnum. I sincerely hope that is not what you have loaded into the cylinder, as it will send parts of the venerable revolver into low earth orbit.

Maybe your monitor needs cleaning?

 

[moralem]

Mic the chamber throats. They may have been bored out or someone has removed metal from the outside of the cylinder.

This chamber looks bigger than the others. There's no step down inside any of the chambers either.

T

That picture is the front of the cylinder. There is a step down on the back side of the cylinder.is there supposed to be a step down on the front of the cylinder?


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[Frontier44]

There should be a ring inside the chambers where the diameter steps down to a smaller diameter.
Here is a pic of the step/ring in a 44 Russian cylinder.

 

[mmaher94087]

Post #56, forth photo down shows the "Russian step". Click too enlarge.

 

[moralem]

I see what you mean. The steps are ever so slight in my cylinder.


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[Frontier44]

(You may have done this already) Compare the dimensions of your chambers to those in the link below;

http://smith-wessonforum.com/redirect-to/?redirect=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.44_Russian

 

[moralem]

I need to mic the chambers, but a 44 Russian fits as does a 44 special except for the length. I need to find my micrometer and get back with y'all.