Finally made it home to play with my 1860 Army Revolvers.
Bought the 1st one from Dixie Gun Works. Then bought a beater from Gunbroker.
The beater was missing it's original cylinder and came with a Conversion Cylinder. Ordered a spare cylinder from Cabela's and a set of Grace gun smith screw drivers.
Only 1 screw driver of the set fit the screws on the Colts.
The barrel wedge on the Dixie Gun Works 1860 Army was in there tight. So I made my own barrel wedge tool out a piece of 223 brass crushed in my bench vice:
Works perfect!
Thanks to Mike Beliveau - Duelist1954 for his awesome videos, I completely disassembled each gun:
https://www.youtube.com/user/duelist1954/featured
Got them apart and smoothed up the internals, focusing primarily on fitting the bolt head to the notches on each cylinder by polishing them on sand paper. Also polished the other internal part.
Plan to to shoot them in the next couple days.
Edit: There was some discussion on making a wedge tool here.
https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=369061
The 223 brass works + 5lb sledge knocked it right out of there. Saving $5 as compared to buying this: https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/1041/1/TOOL-KEY-B
Bought the 1st one from Dixie Gun Works. Then bought a beater from Gunbroker.
The beater was missing it's original cylinder and came with a Conversion Cylinder. Ordered a spare cylinder from Cabela's and a set of Grace gun smith screw drivers.
Only 1 screw driver of the set fit the screws on the Colts.
The barrel wedge on the Dixie Gun Works 1860 Army was in there tight. So I made my own barrel wedge tool out a piece of 223 brass crushed in my bench vice:
Works perfect!
Thanks to Mike Beliveau - Duelist1954 for his awesome videos, I completely disassembled each gun:
https://www.youtube.com/user/duelist1954/featured
Got them apart and smoothed up the internals, focusing primarily on fitting the bolt head to the notches on each cylinder by polishing them on sand paper. Also polished the other internal part.
Plan to to shoot them in the next couple days.
Edit: There was some discussion on making a wedge tool here.
https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=369061
The 223 brass works + 5lb sledge knocked it right out of there. Saving $5 as compared to buying this: https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/1041/1/TOOL-KEY-B
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