Public Service announcement: Uberti Colt pattern pocket models

[Drydock]

I recall reading somewhere (but cannot remember where, dammit!) that Uberti had standardized their nipples across the line in the last few years.  Having a 2019 made Pocket Navy, I volunteered my self to order some Uberti Slixshot nipples to try out, as the little .36 is a notorious for blowing the caps back under the hammer.  The nipples that arrived matched the Italian originals in all dimensions, and screwed right in. 

No other changes made to the revolver, but cap blow back is now eliminated, the revolver works great!

Caveat:  I do not know when the change was made, but certainly by 2019 ("CU")

[Drydock]

Now, this is not where I heard it, but it certainly confirmed it for me:



Karls revolver appears to be a "CN" code.  (2015)

[Navy Six]

I did the same thing a couple of years ago to a Uberti Pocket Navy and 49 Pocket. I forget the exact dimensions, but the Slix-shot nipples have a slightly larger diameter shoulder than the Uberti's. As the nipple well is so small on the Pocket model cylinders, I had to turn down the Slix shoulders in order to be able to get a nipple wrench on them even tough they would screw right in. By the way, my cap blow back was not eliminated with the use of the Slix nipples. The darn mainspring on these Pocket models is so weak I resorted to using half a second mainspring which eliminated about 80% of the blow back. I was not using heavy loads either--11grs 3F in the 49 and 13 grs 3F in the Pocket Navy.

[Johnson Barr]

Yet to try Slix's, partial to Treso's as they love Remington #10's. All my pockets, Uberti's and Pietta are so equipped. I have a lot of never fired Italian factory nipples. Prefer to skip over the grief and get down to cap shooting.

[River City John]

Ditto to what Mr. Barr said.

[Drydock]

Yeah, the Slix are set up specifically for Remington #10s.  As I said, Uberti has changed these revolvers recently, now they all use the same size cones, and the Slixshots screw in with no modifications.  I wonder too if they've upped the spring pressure, mine seems fairly heavy, and has functioned with no blow back with 20 grains 3f and the Colt Conical from Era's Gone.   Could not get thru one cylinder with the stock cones, even with light round ball loads.

Do have to use a model specific nipple wrench though, to clear the tighter nipple pockets on these cylinders.  https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/1039/1/NW-130

[Johnson Barr]

Years ago I purchase a set of the necessary taps in metric sizes to chase the factory cylinder nipple holes. All my Uberti's and most of my Pietta's needed a good thread cleaning before installing the Treso's. Once cleaned the new nipples twisted in with fingers and only needed the nipple wrench for final snug-up. I always remove and solvent clean nipple threads and cylinder thread holes after each match.