Help!!!

[Dave T]

While cleaning my USFA Sheriff's Model today the cylinder pin retaining screw disappeared off the bench. When I removed it to take out the cylinder I set the screw clear to the back of the bench on the folded T-shirt I had spread out there. When it came time to put everything back to gather and it was assembled except for the screw, I couldn't find it.

Needless to say I scoured the bench top, then the floor under the bench, then moved everything on the floor around the bench and finally cleared the lower shelf of the bench. No screw. So, I did it all over again. Still no screw.

I am hoping someone here, who knows USFAs better than I do can tell me if a Colt or one of the Italian makers' BP frame cylinder pin retaining screw will fit a US made USFA revolver.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions,
Dave

[Coffinmaker]

Uberti.  Contact VTI Gunparts.  As soon as you receive your replacement from VTI, your USFA part will appear.  Yes.  It "IS" MAGIC!!

[Major 2]

Not really "magic" it's  Murphy's law  of unfathomable truths  "You never find a lost article until you replace it."

and the Corollary  "Shit Happens"

[Dave T]

Eureka! My wife of 42 years offered to help me take the end of the shop were the screw disappeared apart, piece by piece. About half an hour into it she found the Bright Blue USFA screw.

I am a blessed man for such a wife, and to have the bloody screw back in the Sheriff's Model frame. (smile)

Dave

[Major 2]

Then Sir,  I would venture you are a Protestant ?

Protestantism: Shit happens if you work hard.   

[Dave T]

Then Sir,  I would venture you are a Protestant ?

Protestantism: Shit happens if you work hard.   

I am indeed, but my wife is a Catholic. Not sure how that worked...but I'm sure glad it did. (smiley face goes here)

And lesson learned. Every screw and every small part that comes off a gun goes into a box, not just on the bench top.

Dave

[Professor Marvel]

My good Dave....
Get yourself a glove box . kinda like a small sandblasfing box.
Put your work inside, close the lid, stick your arms in and peer thru the glass top/front/whatever.

Stuff will still disappear, but then that's schoedinger,s cat and Heisenberg uncertainty and subatomic physics & etc.

And my demented brain started thing about the derivation and etimology of the word protestant ...

Protest. ... Ant ?  One who protests?  Inquiring kinds in the hospital pulmonary waiting room want to know ...

Yhs
Prof marvel