k17 no dash cylinder

[macgyverman]

Hello,I just acquired a fair 1948 k17 but someone tried to drill out the cylinder for 22mag and botched it all up. The cylinder and extractor are trashed. Im looking for a cylinder assembly the ejector rod is right hand threads. anyone got one for sale?

 

[Green Frog]

That's a shame. Like Dirty Harry said, "A man ought to know his limitations." If you can live with it, a later cylinder will work fine... if it's got the right hand threads, just use a RH thread e-rod. Be sure and keep the original yoke though. BTW, there seems to be a cottage industry these days reaming out K-22 cylinders to 32 calibers of various lengths (I know I've had two of them done) so you may still be able to get something out of the existing cylinder. Good luck!

Froggie

 

[macgyverman]

Thanks for the info froggy I might try to get it welded up and then use a chamber reamer as it has a matching serial#

 

[Hondo44]

Thanks for the info froggy I might try to get it welded up and then use a chamber reamer as it has a matching serial#

Welcome to the forum.

If truly from 1948, you have a K22 Masterpiece, a Pre Model 17.

I agree, correct the cyl if at all possible. Sleeving the chambers and re-chambering may work better/easier, and welding the extractor star.

 

[walnutred]

I'd try and find someone willing to sleeve your existing cylinder. It's not that hard a project and the cylinder is already ruined.

 

[Green Frog]

I guess I thought about it as a Philistine (or as a shooter) and wanted to get your K-22 operational again ASAP. Sleeving the chambers is not that big a job for a real gunsmith, but depending on the damage to the extractor star, the welding and recutting may prove expensive and time consuming. Any such repairs done by a real gunsmith (who is probably busy already) will probably take weeks or months to have done. I guess it comes down to whether you are dead set on originality and how much time and money you want to spend. Personally, unless the gun has historical significance or is otherwise pristine and collectible, I'd change cylinders and get it shooting sooner and for a lot less money... but then again, I think like a Philistine.

Froggie

 

[Green Frog]

PS to last; If you want to have your cake (originality) and eat it too (repair and shoot quickly) you might follow both strategies. Buy a replacement cylinder and install it so you can be shooting right away, and send the original cylinder to a gunsmith for repairs. Since the only work he has to do is limited to the cylinder, unless the whole chambers are screwed up to where the new chambers need to be line bored, he doesn't need to "tie up" your gun as the work goes through his queue. When you get the original back, good as new, in a few weeks or months, you can reinstall it and then resell the replacement.

Since there is a relatively brisk turnover in those cylinders as donors for projects such as building 32s (I should know! ) you should be able to sell it quickly with little or no reduction in the price you paid. Meanwhile you retain use of your K-22 in the interim. I'm assuming you bought it to actually shoot and not just admire, right? Win ~ win.

Just thinking out loud, and of course you can take any free advice I give as being worth exactly what I charged you for it, since YMMV.

Froggie

 

[bgrafsr]

Sounds like the cylinder needs to be sent to Andy Horvath.

 

[macgyverman]

thanks bill any contact info on andy?

 

[Green Frog]

Andy is old school and doesn't do the e-mail/website/internet thing. His info has been published here often and can be found with an internet search. He's Andy Horvath at Diagonal Road Gun Shop on Diagonal Rd, LaGrange OH. Best to catch him by phone or snail mail.

If your extractor star needs rebuilding/repair I'll mention that he had to alter the one on Project 616 when he went from 22 to 327, and he did a good job on it for me. He's usually not fast... too many people know about him, but he's good and his prices are reasonable, in my experience.

Froggie