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I own a j frame 642-1 bought September 2013, but fired about 500 - 800 rounds since. I tried to remove the cylinder for cleaning & had trouble extracting it. I posted the problem here last week, and got sage advice to try rotating the cylinder.
I rotated the cylindar and & it and the yoke came right out, not very smoothly, but they weren't hard to remove.
I could not, however, completely remove the yoke from the cylinder. At first when I pulled gently on the yoke, it did not budge. I pulled harder and it still did not budge. I then pulled very hard and I felt something "give" and it came out about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way out.
I then pulled with about the same amount of pressure but it clearly felt like it "caught" on something and simply would not come out all the way. I then pushed on the metal bar and it easily went back in. While it easily pulled back out, it again "caught" on something at the same spot & wouldn't come all the way out. Repeating that procedure produced no better results. I was afraid to employ maximum strength because I know from doing this procedure on the 686 that I own, it is suppose to pull out easily.
Does anyone have suggestions? Is there a significance to my feeling something "give" or release to get the rod to pull out to the extent that it actually did so?
I am new to dealing with guns andI have no instinct about these things.
Any comments will be appreciated.
I rotated the cylindar and & it and the yoke came right out, not very smoothly, but they weren't hard to remove.
I could not, however, completely remove the yoke from the cylinder. At first when I pulled gently on the yoke, it did not budge. I pulled harder and it still did not budge. I then pulled very hard and I felt something "give" and it came out about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way out.
I then pulled with about the same amount of pressure but it clearly felt like it "caught" on something and simply would not come out all the way. I then pushed on the metal bar and it easily went back in. While it easily pulled back out, it again "caught" on something at the same spot & wouldn't come all the way out. Repeating that procedure produced no better results. I was afraid to employ maximum strength because I know from doing this procedure on the 686 that I own, it is suppose to pull out easily.
Does anyone have suggestions? Is there a significance to my feeling something "give" or release to get the rod to pull out to the extent that it actually did so?
I am new to dealing with guns andI have no instinct about these things.
Any comments will be appreciated.