How do you remove a cylinder?

[marca]

I've read several posts that mention cleaning the cylinder of a revolver by removing it from the gun and soaking it in gun solvent. Is this something that the average non-gunsmith can do? If so, how is the cylinder removed?

Thanks

 

[bountyh]

On SW guns, you have to remove the forward screw on the RH side of the sideplate. Swing the cylinder out and carefully slide the crane piece forward and the cylinder comes free. Reverse to assemble. I don't think soaking a cylinder is necessary or advisable. Once off, they are relatively easy to clean. I have never found that soaking removes the dirt from the cylinder tubes. That has to be scrubbed to remove.

 

[braindead0]

Get a good set of hollow-ground screwdriver bits, so you don't munge up the screw.

It seems that many Taurus revo's are the same, remove the front most screw and the crane slides out.