Help with .36 1858 Police New Model revisited.

[Li'll Red]

First, thanks to those that attempted to help me out with my earlier questions on this.

Alright, it works!
Test shot it the other day with a rather weak 12 grain load. Worked great and shot fairly accurately, but was not looking to be accurate at this point, just wanted to make sure it fired. Recovered rounds show strong groves, so rifling is doing its job.

Have my first attempt at a home made trigger guard on it. Made one little error that will require me to do it over. I ran it too shallow near the trigger, the guard is too narrow there. Oh well, this one will make a great pattern for the next attempt.

Since one of my concerns was the nipples being so worn, I looked high and low for modern replacements. (keep in mind any of the original parts are retained, even if replacements are used when shooting).

Replacement nipples were found at DGW Inc and are Colt short, 225X32.

The Peitta 63 Remmy pocket cylinder hand works here with minor adjustments prior to my fixing the cylinder slack, and no adjustment if I had done that first.  (mine had a missing hand spring).

A full size 44 trigger spring works in this thing, believe it or not. Only needed to cut it back about 1/2 inch. The pocket one is too short.

All in all a fun little project and a far cry from that shadow box material I started with.

[Wolfgang]

Good to hear of its "reserection"       New pictures ?   

Good shootin', . . . 

[Li'll Red]

Hum, file too large, have to post the other pics seperate. The above was as bought, the next with modified 44 trigger guard, and the last is with home made guard from block of brass.

[Li'll Red]

Thanks. I see you have a place in Ohio. I'm over by Kent. Not to many BP enthusiast out at the range I go to (AA).

Only the last photo is "new".

[Bull Schmitt]

Lil Red,

We aren't to far apart. I'm down in Alliance. What clubs do you shoot at?

Bull Schmitt

[Li'll Red]

AA in Garretsville, near Nelsons Ledges and race track. They look to be about 40 miles due north of you, about 20 from me. Just love the laid back atmosphere. People shoot everything there, but so far I am the only one I know of shooting BP revolvers. Not to bad, $10 an hour. Worse part about it is it takes three times longer to load then it does to unload, thus I fool around with a Savage .22 rifle and an old but like new 1896 Iver Johnson .32. Not too many that take BP at all, and none of the indoor ranges willl, but this little Remmy in.36 with those light loads hardly smokes at all. In fact, it is quiter than my .22 with subsonics.

[Wolfgang]

Hum, file too large, have to post the other pics seperate. The above was as bought, the next with modified 44 trigger guard, and the last is with home made guard from block of brass.

Nice pistol and a nice job on it.   

Good shootin', . . . 

[Li'll Red]

Thanks again.
The hardest was the cylinder end space, had WAY too much. The nipple end of the cylinder where the hand engages was worn way down. That was the part I was going to have the aircraft welder build up and then I would re-machine what I needed to. But after a great deal of thought and looking to save a $, I tried something I could do first. I made a pattern via a rubbing of the where the hand indents were before I did anything. I then found a nice 10 cent steel washer with the same size opening in it as the cylinder pin and silver soldered it down to the back of the cylinder. After that I filed it down until I had just the slightest headspace gap and used a carbide bit on my Dremel to put in new hand indents. Worked like a charm and took up all the slack, better than my ASM 44. A little antiquing and you would be hard pressed to see anything had been done to it. The silver solder takes a lot of abuse, far more than any of the loads I am likely to shoot, and even then, it is pressing on it, not rotating against it when it fires.

Guess an old dog can learn new tricks. Never did any of this before, but then again, I also taught myself how to repair pocket watches (no, not make new parts, but if I need to replace parts and have the replacement part I can tear it down, put it back together and re-adjust it....heck of a hard time on the eyes though!)

[Wolfgang]

Real slick trick with that washer   

[Li'll Red]

Here are a couple of pics to show how the "washer fix" looks. To bad you can't fix the same slop in a Colt or Colt clone as easily!