Howdy pards,
I was at a gun show today and bought a Howell Old West Conversions (usta be R&D) cylinder for my ROA. Dealer said, and I've read, that it should just drop right in. Then he said, and I've never read, that if it didn't, I should pound on it with a mallet. Sounded strange, but I bought it anyway. (Now, Dick, before you chime in and say I shudda gone with Kirst, it was there, I was there, and Kirst wasn't.) Long story short, I got it home and couldn't get it in the frame. Put a towel over it and pounded it a couple times and it went in, but won't turn. Can't pull the hammer back from half cock. Hard to get it back out.
I'm not a mechanically inclined hombre and don't have a lot of tools. I haven't found a gunsmith in my area that works on c&b revolvers. Short of giving the cylinder back, which the dealer said I could and he's been straight up with me in the past, what do I do? If it's something a clutz like me can do, even if I hafta buy some tools, I want to do it.
Any and all suggestions are welcome!
Muchas gracias, mi amigos!
Jethro