Cudos

[shooter93]

Here's a HUGEEEEEEE thanks and cudos to VTI. I posted here awhile ago, long time ago really that I had bought two Cimaron open tops. The cylinder shaft bent down almost immediately causing the cylinder to drag on the frame and leaving me with two expensive paper weights. I've come to expect problems with Italian made guns and I allow for this as I'm usually building a cutom gun from them and correct the problems along the way. Anyway...VTI didn't have the parts nor did Cimarron who has pitiful customer service anyway in my experience. I kept in contact with Ciimarron and was always told...no parts yet. So how are you going to fix a warrented gun?...sorry...no parts was all I got. I figured I'd have my friend and Gunsmith teddy make the parts but since he usually has 5 or 6 custom guns in the workd for me all the time I never got around to it. Now nearly a year has passed and I get a call from VTI here. My wife got the call and they asked if I still wanted the parts I had ordered and she told them oh I'm sure he does. Two days later they showed up.....So the company who sold me the guns does nothing and a company who sells me 80 bucks worth of parts keeps track of my order for nearly a year and fills it......Guys....that's a GREAT!!!!!!! company. Now to finish them up and re-blue and color case them. If they shoot well I may even have them engraved. Thanks a million to VTI.

[Fox Creek Kid]

The cylinder shaft bent down almost immediately causing the cylinder to drag on the frame...

   How on earth did this happen?

[shooter93]

My best guess....a very soft mis-tempered shaft. The gun god through less than a box of cas type 44 special loads. Soft parts are fairly common on Italian guns, I've come across quite a few over the years that either need made or re-tempered. It seems to have entered the frame straight but it did bend downward quite a bit, you can see the "downhill grade" to the cylinder.

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[Fox Creek Kid]

How did you get the barrel off & back on the cylinder then, assuming that the cylinder pin is a slip fit into barrel lug hole?

[will52100]

I had one like that, first Cimmeron sent a 44 colt 60 RM with a 44 cylinder and a 45 barrel, couldn't figure out why my groups were so large!  They replaced that straight away with one that rubed everybit of bluing off the engraved part of the cylinder.  The alighnment pins had upset the metal of the water table just enough to rub.  A little work with a dremel took care of that  and a rust blue fixed the cylinder.  The pin wasn't bent, and I might have sent it back except for the accuracy was better than any gun I've ever owned.