steve76020
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swapping cylinders
I have 4 revolvers the last one I aquired isnt marked with a manufacturers name so I don't have a clue as to the brand. But the cylinder has several nipples stuck in it, it is the 1860 army model, anyway I have a new pietta 1851 revolver with the short barrel 5.5 in I believe which I'm not fond of due to loading it is very hard with the short plunger. So I was going to switch the cylinders and with the 1851 cylinder in the 1860 frame the barrel wont seat and when set side by side the 1851 pietta cylinder is noticably longer than the 1860 cylinder not by much maybe a 64th of an inch but that's enough to prevent getting the barrel wedge in and the cylinder being able to rotate in the revolver. I dont know what the 1860 brand is of course they all are probably made in the same factory but the cylinder isnt interchangeble with the 1851 and doing the swap the other way and trying to put the 1851 cylinder and barrel on the 1860 frame wont work either as the main rod the cylinder rotates on mounted on the 1860 frame wont accept the barrel of the 1851 both are 44 cal.
I have 4 revolvers the last one I aquired isnt marked with a manufacturers name so I don't have a clue as to the brand. But the cylinder has several nipples stuck in it, it is the 1860 army model, anyway I have a new pietta 1851 revolver with the short barrel 5.5 in I believe which I'm not fond of due to loading it is very hard with the short plunger. So I was going to switch the cylinders and with the 1851 cylinder in the 1860 frame the barrel wont seat and when set side by side the 1851 pietta cylinder is noticably longer than the 1860 cylinder not by much maybe a 64th of an inch but that's enough to prevent getting the barrel wedge in and the cylinder being able to rotate in the revolver. I dont know what the 1860 brand is of course they all are probably made in the same factory but the cylinder isnt interchangeble with the 1851 and doing the swap the other way and trying to put the 1851 cylinder and barrel on the 1860 frame wont work either as the main rod the cylinder rotates on mounted on the 1860 frame wont accept the barrel of the 1851 both are 44 cal.