1858 cylinder gap

[ClemBert]

Yeah, but how does the cylinders on those bp guns spin after firing three full cylinders?

Ya know...I don't know how well they free spin after pumping a lot of rounds through them. I generally only free spin the cylinder when fondling them at home after cleaning them. I can say that the ROA has had 60 rounds through it in one afternoon without having any tightening that I'm aware of. Same goes for the Uberti 1858 after 30 rounds. Of course I'm shooting 777 and using lubricated Wonder Wads. Any tightness is generally only felt while reloading when on occasion I get part of that shaved lead ring caught between the barrel and the cylinder.

 

[Blankwaffe]

The bolt on my two Pietta 1858 Remingtons drop just as,or slightly before the cylinder fully rotates into place.Just about every detail on those revolvers is outstanding.
As far as barrel gap and end play it varies from cylinder to cylinder and frame to frame in my experience.Ive seen as much as .004" difference in the OAL of the Pietta 58 Rem cylinders.
What I did was buy a few spare cylinders from Cabelas and measured the OAL's,then compared them in each of the revolvers frames until I got a good of fit/tolerance for each of the revolvers.Then had the cylinders laser engraved with the serial number of each of the matching revolvers so they dont get mixed up.
One of the Rems had alot of end play with the original cylinder that came in it,and the other was a bit tight.So swapping the two original cylinders was an immediate fix as well.
The barrel gaps on my 58's are .004" and the other is .0075".I dont have any cylinder bind issues as I swap cylinders to reload.I wipe the cylinder faces off before I drop them on the loading stand so they are cleaned between uses.
All my Colt replicas have cylinder gaps of .0075"-.011".Rarely do I see one of them suffer cylinder bind.The Walker has the .011" cylinder gap and it will run all day with a 45gr. load of ffg. with a wad under the ball and a grease cookie over it to keep the fouling soft..

 

[Smokin_Gun]

Hawg, my BP and C&B Revolvers still shoot free wheelin' all day without cleanin' by usin' them Lube Pills I started makin' years go...you know the ones :O)

 

[Smokin' gun]

Smokin Gun-- we don't know near enough about the remingtons. When you rotate the cylinder out at half cock--is their a trick to putting it back in without fumbling and struggling? And by the way, we tried changing my name but it didn't work--so don't be mad at me yet.:}

Billy

 

[Hawg]

Hawg, my BP and C&B Revolvers still shoot free wheelin' all day without cleanin' by usin' them Lube Pills I started makin' years go...you know the ones :O)
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Yep but I kinda doubt he does. I still haven't gotten around to trying them.

Smokin Gun-- we don't know near enough about the remingtons. When you rotate the cylinder out at half cock--is their a trick to putting it back in without fumbling and struggling

Well I ain't smokin_gun but the easiest way is ease the hammer back until the hand and bolt are both retracted and then the cylinder will fall in from either side.

 

[Smokin' gun]

thanks

 

[SamStafford]

On my two 58 Remmys, I can take the cylinders out pretty fast and put but in pretty fast. BTW, I do this a lot when I'm watching T.V. Also, I do this with unloaded cylinders.