When honeing a cylinder it is best to remove it from the revolver first, This will keep any rubbish & slurry from the honeng proccess from getting on the weapon..
You simply remove the most farward side plate screw which is also the end shake screw with a propper fitting paralell screwdriver, open the cylinder up & while holding the cylinder still pull the crane/yolk toward the front, The instalation is in the reverse order..
I would hold the cylinder in a padded vise with some rags around the piece to absorb any extra oil as it's messy, I have some pieces of leather from an old belt that make a great pad to protect the cylinder from the vise jaws if a rubber jawed vise isn't available, In fact you could hold the cylinder to a table top with a C clamp if a vise isn't available as long as you pad it to prevent scarring the piece up..
You want to hone with the ejector/extractor star in place..
Coat the inside of each cylinder to be honed with hone oil with a Q-Tip & coat the hone with oil as well..
A slow speed drill is gonna be the best as you can't put back metal that you've removed, I use a cordless drill set on slow speed, You keep the hone moving in & out as your spinning it in the chamber to give a cross hatched pattern to the cylinder.
That's just about all there is to it.. If it's realy bad I'd start with the medium hone & finish with the fine one..
Clean Up is best with gun scrubber or Kero as the "Slurry" is messy stuff & best done outside, It's a combo of oil, silicone from the hones balls & removed metal, It looks like dirty gear oil.. I'd put a few drops of CLP on the yolks bearing surfaces & spin the cylinder on it several spins to distribute the oil evenly before reassembly..
There are several people who bore cylinders for 9mm convertions out there..
When I had my 940s cylinder reamed to 38 Super I had it done by Dave Manson @ Manson Presition Reamers, he makes alot of the reamers sold by Brownells & is also a forum member here, He did a great job & the price was hard to beat..
Here's his webpage,
http://www.mansonreamers.com/
Give him an email & ask about boreing a 38spl to 9mm, I do know that once it's been done that 38s will stick if shot in that cylinder as the brass fire forms to the cylinder from what I've read here on the forum..
If anyone wants to "Barrow" any of the hones in my stash please email me..
I have 9mm/38/357, 41 cal, 44cal, 45lc & 45acp..
The 45LC hones are out being used currently
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These hones were bought by the forum to replace the ones that I had that went missing & I would realy only ask for the S&H due to the fact I'm currently unemployed, A small Priority Box from the PO is $4.95 to just about anywere in the USA..
Many Thanks To Zilmo & the other forum members who stepped up to purchase the hones for me..
This is without a doubt the best Forum on the Internet..
Gary aka Headknocker
