Thanks Catshooter. I have built 6 of them so far for local shooters, I am getting really got at it. First one took me about 3 hours, now my last one I was done in under 2 hours. I guess you learn a few short cuts along the way.
Nanuk: Went out to the range today and shot off 8 boxes of .38 spl thru the old Uberti revolver and on the last box , the first cylinder full I pulled back the hammer and the hand broke. Oh well it had to go sometime, I think this is the third hand that I have replaced but I have thousands of rounds thru it and it is my back up anyway.
When I got home I put the tumbler barrel on the rollers empty to see if it would stall and I ran it for 10 minutes without incident so I guess it was just really stiff bearings that needed to be loosened up as I mentioned before.
I found some 30-06 range brass that was out all winter in the same general area as the ones I found earlier, the snow had melted some more for me to see them. 3 hours in the tumbler with the 38 spl brass and they look brand new again. Amazing.