barrel/cylinder gap fix?

[Crow Choker]

Hey Riflee'---glad yer back on the forum. Always enjoy and look forward to your posts and information. Have been gonna call ya for a while and see how you've been. Has been quite a few full moons since I talked with ya. Reference Colt arbor fixin--I bought a dozen of the Dillion brass check buttons that Pettifogger recommended for adjusting Colt arbors. So far haven't used them. Tried the split washers, didn't like them-to much spring, didn't really trust them to give a true fix. I bought three thicknesses of thin brass washers of the same diameter as the arbor and by trial found what combination best trued things up. Put a little grease on them and stick em on the arbor end and put thing back together, just have to take notice when I take barrel off. They mostly stick in the barrel arbor hole. Works mighty fine. Not withstanding what some have claimed, several of my percussion Colts were right on, not needing anything as was my Richards II cat-ridge revolver (all Uberti's). One of these days I'll attempt Pettifoggers method, but the brass washers do the trick.       

Crow Choker

[riflee]

Crow Chocker!! Hey Hombre. You are entering the ,"Kitchen Table Gunsmith Master Guild Association", with all the expertise you've expanded upon. 

You must be going to the best gunsmith supply there is...the hardware store.

You're lucky to get some guns that are spot on right off the bat. 

If you need something to do to enter the exceptional arena with cap&baller home schooling you could get into some casehardening of hammers and triggers and even Colt or Remington frames.  Maybe before casehardening triggers you could study up on trigger jobs with positive engagement ,negative engagement and neutral engagement.  Just sayin!  Why not go even further to get yer Masters Degree? 

I'll drive ya crazy yet Bud.