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    Colt style barrel wedge

    Some reproduction guns have too short of an arbor requiring a homemade spacer or shim of some sort to take up the space between the arbor and the bottom of the arbor hole. May be a washer or a disc, look around for something round that just doesn't belong anywhere.
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    Need Longer Nipples

    Why should the hammer contact the nipple? If the revolver is dry fired it is to advantage the hammer misses the nipple. The ignition mixture in the cap is usually more than thick enough to make up for a small gap. If the nipple is too long, the hammer cannot travel far enough forward after...
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    pietta 1851 timing ?

    The forcing cone on a stock Pietta looks inadequate to me but made little difference to the accuracy. Each change was followed by a shooting session before changing something else. The muzzle crowning was the one thing that really improved the accuracy. Other than enlarging the cylinder bores so...
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    pietta 1851 timing ?

    These are the home made tools use for the .36 Colt, except the stones and the cylinder reamer. I can honestly say this work made my .36 into a keeper, there was a time when it sat in the back of the gun cabinet and I pondered getting rid of it. Now it's my favorite Colt revolver and usually...
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    pietta 1851 timing ?

    The piece in the center is the alignment pin between the barrel and cylinder. The tool on the right is a set up I made for cutting 11 degree forcing cones in Pietta barrels, following Uberti's practice. The brass piece on the left is a lap made for crowning the muzzle after making sure the...
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    pietta 1851 timing ?

    To time a cap and ball it is handy to have a lathe to make a pin. One sized to fit the chamber, one to fit the barrel. Removing all the nipples first, then removing the barrel and inserting the pin into a chamber and re-install the barrel. Photo of pin shown that was made for my .36 Navy. Then...
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    Interesting Colt Navy

    From experience, IF it was a Dixie Guns kit gun, the maker stamps the raw frame casting and you loose all the stampings when you file the frame down to it's final size and shape. It would be up to the kit builder to re-stamp the frame if desired.
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    1851 Navy, brass vs. steel, etc.

    Here is a 51 Navy .36 in steel with a round barrel. Accurate, and a blast to shoot. May do another one like this in .44 :thumbsup:
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    .454 vs .451 balls

    Rule of thumb for all cap-and-ball revolvers; 1.cyl bore size .001-.002 larger than barrel groove. 2. Ball size .006 larger than cylinder size. Works every time. :thumbsup:
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    Slix Shot nipples and a Wolff reduced power main spring in an 185

    I am curious as the effect of side vent nipples would have on the possibility of chain firing. It seems tempting fate to direct hot gas sideways across the end of the cylinder towards another live cap. Do the threads allow for the vent to be indexed in a certain direction?
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    chain fire evidence

    crockett, you may have hit the nail right on the head. :headslap: That was the first cylinder loading of the day and being a tightwad, I always thought it a waste of caps as there is but the slightest oil film left, but after the first firings there is usually some dry soot for the caps to...
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    chain fire evidence

    I have to believe the cap fell off while firing the first couple of shots as the loaded chambers still had caps on them. As stated these were bigger caps I was trying to use up by pinching them to stay on the nipples. Normally use Remington #11, as they are slightly smaller than the Winchester...
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    chain fire evidence

    The cap on the bench was just like new, in fact it was used during the next reload and performed fine. I was using up some Winchester #11 caps that are too big for all of my cap and ball revolvers so they needed pinched to stay on, apparently that one wasn't pinched enough. It was just dumb luck...
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    chain fire evidence

    Was shooting the .44 Remington at the range and was trying different loads as I don't often shoot this one, when the second or third shot seemed stouter than the others. The cylinder to the left of the one in line with the barrel went off at the same time. Left nothing more than a lead scuff...
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    1860 Army Cylinder Jamming

    gradog, if you can push the wedge in and lock the cylinder when the gun is clean, the arbor is too short and needs a spacer of some sort to get the clearance Zonie suggested when the wedge is tight. A wedge is a wedge when it is pushing against something solid, that is why it is called a wedge...
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    Reliability of long loaded C&Bs

    Being somewhat curious about caps being sensitive to moisture, I put one in a small bottle of water overnight, shaking it to remove any air pockets from inside the primer. 18 hrs in water, then 6 hours on a paper towel open end down, put it on a pistol and tried it. First strike, nothing...
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    Lead casting questions

    I have an old hatchet sharpened just for chopping lead flashing for the pot. A piece of Mulberry stump works for backing. Still old school as the setup uses a gasoline blow torch and a cast iron pot setting in a bucket with a cut out for the torch and holes in the rim for a chimney.
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    speced out the 36 cal 1862 tonight

    The fixture is no doubt the more accurate way to go than hand reaming, although it may not be that critical. You didn't say but is the revolver a Pietta? If so you may want to fix the forcing cone and the muzzle end of the barrel. Pietta uses a very short abrupt "forcing cone" that usually...
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    speced out the 36 cal 1862 tonight

    Lee makes a .380 round ball mould that should work. You may have already noticed the chambers are out of round from the rolling process they use to engrave the scene on the cylinder. Mine had two chambers .002 out of round. Since reaming to .002 over groove, it made a new revolver out of it, fun...
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    Navy Colt rebuild

    Another vote for a re-bluing service, especially if you want a true dark blue finish. It has been my experience with cold blue that some highly polished surfaces won't take bluing very well for some reason. Your experience may differ, hope so. :v
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