I have to interject here. This mysterious subject of "timing" and how it can just be redone by some skilled smith is just non sense.
The cylinder is timed to the frame by the position of the locking pawl which can't be moved and by the notches on the cylinder which can't be moved,,, at least very easily. Those notches are milled into the cylinder at the time of manufacture and are pretty much fixed in relation to the chambers. There can be errors. All of the features of the cylinder are timed to a Zero point. If the cylinder doesn't line up with something else it is becasue of alignment not timing.
The only way to retime a revolver is to recut the locking notches.. Nobody does this. You start over with a blank cylinder and line bore new chambers. You are not changing the timing, it is fixed at the cylinder.
Only the alignment is variable. Line boring is one way to correct this if it is very far off. But still in this option the locking notches dictate where the cylinder is located with respect to the frame and ultimately the barrrel. If the barrel is not located in the frame in the correct position then you've got problems that are going to be very difficult to fix. Best to start over with a different gun.
Loose locking notches, a few .000 either way provide some small amount of self alignment as the bullet bridges the gap between the cylinder and the barrel. a cylinder that allows .02-.030 of movemnet needs either an oversized pawl or a new cylinder or both. It doesn't need to be "re-timed" it needs to be "re-aligned"
The forcing cone acts as a funnel to make alignment happen easier, and allow for a small amount of misalignment IE manufacturing tolerances. . If a cylinder locks up with little or no movement then each chamber had better be perfectly aligned with the bore or it ain't gonna shoot right. It has nothing to do with timing.
"Tiiming" is a term which is misused alot. In mechanical things it has to do with "WHEN" things line up, not "HOW" they line up. "Alignment'' best describes "HOW" things line up.
Randy