Recrown job

[meistermash]

I rescued a 10-6 hb from the clutches of a longhair, dirty, one eyed hippy looking dude and it has been an ongoing project. One of the things wrong with it was there was damage to the crown. It didn't shoot that great either. I decided to recrown it. I'm not sure where I could get something to redo the factory rounded muzzle profile so I settled for a flat crown. Used a 4 jaw independent in the lathe.

Think this will work? Not much detail in the pics but I got the bore centered damn close and the rifling is broken in an even fashion.

 

[brucev]

Beautiful work! Have only used a wood lathe, no experience w/ proper metal cutting lathe. Would imagine it requires serious attention to detail to produce such an excellent result. Know from experience that a damaged crown will most assuredly have a negative impact on accurate shooting. Hope that you can get any other issues with the revolver sorted out.

 

[TucsonMTB]

Works for rifles and looks good to me. A few rounds fired from a rest should bring a smile to your face.

If it isn't perfect you can always lap the inner edge in the conventional manner with an abrasive compound on a ball shaped, brass tool.

 

[meistermash]

Well I shouldn't have bought this thing probably. I paid too much. I have cleaned the 3n1 oil out of the action. Put in a new rebound spring and mainspring. Replaced the godawful grips with some mouldy smelling used ones. Added a grip adapter. Replaced the center pin and trimmed the ejector rod. Found a new one and put that one in the better k frame and used the old ejector rod in this one so it needed shortened some. It had been fired for so long with the side plate screws loose that the pins are all worn too far to the left side. Was great on end shake and times up good though like somebody had fixed that at one point. I need to locate a sand or bead blaster or somebody with one to knock down the finish wear then either cold blue it or use some of that black oxide stuff in the shed that may work. Still can't fathom how the hell that crown got so bunged up. Looked like some body had dropped a near bore size round object on it or the gun on something like that.