Put it back together and now it won't work.

[Triggernosis]

Model 60-4. When I put it back together, it won't rotate the cylinder and it binds up. Sometimes it will rotate it a time or two, but usually binds up after a couple of cycles and I have to remove the sideplate again to get things working again.
It's almost as if the piece that pushes on the cylinder and rotates it is not working somehow.

This is the last mistake I'm going to make with my tabletop gunsmithing. To a pro next time.....

 

[Crazy K38]

ok did you place the cylinder hand spring back on the trigger? it is inside of the cylinder hand.

 

[Officerbob]

Tom,
sounds like the same problem I encountered with my model 66. The hand spring may have come undone from the hand. What the hand spring does is keeps resistance on the hand. So when you pull the trigger and hand which turns the cylinder. Are you having to keep putting the hand back in the slot to turn the cylinder?

Shawn

 

[sourdough44]

As stated I'd focus in on the 'Hand' & hand spring, however it's positioned on your model.

 

[skeeterbait]

The hand is the engagement bar that feeds through the slot in the blast shield and ingages the cog on the back of the cylinder to rotate it. The hand spring is less than a 1/2 inch long and rides inside the fork of the trigger. One end fits into a tiny hole inside the fork of the trigger and the other end must be compressed and fitted behind a pin as the hand is slid into its retaining hole. Not easy to do without experience. A tiny cup tip punch is useful to hold the spring compressed as the hand is slid into place. Spring must be oriented correctly. Hopefully the spring is still up inside the trigger fork and hasn't wondered off. Here is a link to your schematic. Look at parts 27,28,30

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=0/sid=539/schematicsdetail/J_Frame_60_4

 

[Triggernosis]

Well, all of you are exactly right - I had failed to get the hand spring pushing on the hammer. Getting that little bastard pushed back inside the trigger and pushing against the little stud on the hand was more of a PIA than installing the rebound spring (actually, I've gotten quite swift at installing rebound springs....).

Thanks for the help. I'm going to leave well enough alone from now on.

 

[shotguntom]

Why leave things alone? Next time you know not to make that error. Part of the fun is the learning process. A simple error that frustrated you this time, wont the next time.
Advice from a guy who has suffered thru a few errors in the learning process.
Tom

 

[Triggernosis]

That's true, Tom. Learning is fun...afterwards.