Cylinder stop

[g.willikers]

Now, now.
How about we begin again and try to solve the problem.
If the cylinder, as you say, rotates without a wobble when opened, have you tried it when closed, with empty chambers, of course?
Does the gap at both ends change, at all, as the closed cylinder is rotated?
How about when there are fully seated, empty cases in the chambers?
The next test would be as above with bullets loaded into empty cases, if you have reloading equipment.
Using loaded rounds is risky.
The idea is to try to determine if there is, indeed, anything bent or incorrectly machined.

 

[crawdad185]

I'm out of town until Friday and don't have the revolver with me. I plan to ship the revolver out to Charter next Monday and let them look the gun over. When I get home I'll check those things you mentioned before I box it up. I picked up a feeler gauge today during lunch so I can check the cylinder gap also. Otherwise, when I get the gun back from Charter, I'll post their findings.

 

[crawdad185]

g.willikers, I checked the things that you mentioned and this is what I found:

1) there is no discernible wobble with the cylinder either open or closed.
2) the gap at both ends stays exactly the same at both ends when the cylinder is rotated in the closed position.
3) the gap at both ends stays the same when rotated with empty shells in the cylinder.
4) the gap at both ends stays the same when rotated with loaded rounds in the cylinder.

Nothing appears to be bent, warped or incorrectly machined with this exception: as I was rotating the cylinder around I was looking at the gap between the cylinder and forcing cone and it didn't look just right, so I got a very bright light and held the gun up to that and looked at the amount of light shining between them and it looked to me like there was a gap (light shining through) at the top of the forcing cone/cylinder, but there was no light at all between the forcing cone/cylinder at the bottom portion of the forcing cone.
That appears to me to indicate that the forcing cone/end of the barrel is not true. What do you think?
The gun has been boxed up and shipped out to charter now, so I can't make anymore checks.