Remmy 1875 cylinder pin extraction after firing BP

[Wagon Box Willy]

Howdy Pards,

After firing a box or so of BP loads the cylinder pin on my Remmy not surprisingly cannot be pulled with my fingers in order to remove the cylinder.

My question is, have any of you folks devised a fancy, smancy tool for pulling this pin?  I've simply used a square peg up under the pin and a couple of light taps breaks it free.

Thanks
  -Willy

[Paladin UK]

Sounds ta me like ya already got it sorted pard!!

Paladin (What aint gotta...a fancy, smancy tool   neither  ) UK

[Grapeshot]

Howdy Pards,

After firing a box or so of BP loads the cylinder pin on my Remmy not surprisingly cannot be pulled with my fingers in order to remove the cylinder.

My question is, have any of you folks devised a fancy, smancy tool for pulling this pin?  I've simply used a square peg up under the pin and a couple of light taps breaks it free.

Thanks
  -Willy

Well, that's one of the reasons I sold my pair of .44 Remington 1875's.  Not long ago in one of the gun mags that cater to Black Powder Shooters someone was advertising a small pry tool that helps pull stuck cylinder pins.  From what I can remember, it was made from carbon fiber and shaped like a small crow bar.  The business end had a notch in it to fit behind the nob end of the cylinder pin so you could exert force......oh, wait a minute......you said 1875's, I'm thinking 1873 Clones and Rugers. 

I had to use a small pair of slip joint pliers on the 1875 Remingtons.  I always managed to bugger up the front of the cylinder pin.  A little 400 grit abasive paper and a drill always smoothed up the end and some cold blue hit the fact that force was needed to pull it out.

You could always use some 800 grit abrasive paper on the end that slips into the recoil plate and cut a groove in the pin where it is covered by the cylinder and grease it up prior to shooting with Bore Butter.  That worked for me and a couple of my fellow shooters.

[Fiddler Green]

Bore butter and a rubber mallet always works for me!

[Icebox Bob]

I have two 75's and shoot nothing but black powder.  One was relatively new when I got it and the first thing I did was polish the pin to as close to a mirror finish as possible.  The other is older and the pin is slightly pitted so I couldn't get the same level of polish.  I use lots of lube beforehand and give the pins a shot of Ballistol every couple of stages.  I can shoot 6 stages and still pull the pin with my fingers on the newer one.  The older one requires a little help - usually a bit of leverage with a hardwood dowel.  I am planning to replace the older pin this winter.

[Cuts Crooked]

Wierd!

All I shoot through my 75s is real BP 'n I ain't never had the problem with the pins gettin stuck

s'cuse me while I go knock on wood!!!!!!

[Fairshake]

Polish the pins with some 600 grit. Then go to your auto parts store and buy either a grease gun tube or can of Mobil 1 Synthetic grease. I have used it on several different pistols that I fire with the real BP. I have never had to use anything to extract a pin yet other than a finger. The cylinder will spin as free at stage 5 as it did at stage 1. I also use it on my toggle bolts in my 73.

[Wagon Box Willy]

What part of the oin do I polish?  Do you cold blue it afterward?

-Willy

[Dick Dastardly]

I've found that the lube splash from Big Lube®LLC bullets, such as the DD/PUK/ROA-II or the EPP-UG, keeps Remingtons running good and the base pin free to remove with my fingers only.  It's the lube splash that does the work here as well as making for very easy cleanup after the match.

DD-DLoS

[Lucky R. K.]

I do not have any experience with the 1875 but I do shoot an 1858 now and then.  After a couple of loadings the cylinder pin does not want to come out.  This is with the DD Pecos Pete bullet.  I think the reason for this is in the design of the gun.

I have seen( I think on this site) an article for making a cylinder bushing for the 1858 like Ruger did with their Old Armies.  I plan to try this aand see what happens.

Lucky 

[Wagon Box Willy]

I've found that the lube splash from Big Lube®LLC bullets, such as the DD/PUK/ROA-II or the EPP-UG, keeps Remingtons running good and the base pin free to remove with my fingers only.  It's the lube splash that does the work here as well as making for very easy cleanup after the match.

DD-DLoS

Not Here Dick, the BL Boolits keep the cylinders spinning but I cant pull out the pins without using a peg and banging them out (and that's with using the mobile 1 grease"

  -Willy

[Dick Dastardly]

So they're spinning, but not pulling easy.  Sounds like some buildup is making a shoulder that's got to get wiped off before they pull.  Using a puller will wipe 'em off, but that's not supposed to happen.

I'd try polishing the hole and the pin till they were mirror smooth.  Sounds like something is grabbing ans usually that's machining artifact.

DD-DLoS