Making sure the cylinder is lined up with the bore I have made up dummy barrels for the Remington and used it as a guide for the reamer. It's a little hard to do with the open top Colt.
Making sure the cylinder is lined up with the bore I have made up dummy barrels for the Remington and used it as a guide for the reamer. It's a little hard to do with the open top Colt.
The open top should be as fine as the Howell type 6 shot conversion cyls for the Remington pattern revolvers. Even though the chambers are slightly angled to allow 6 cartridges, many folks consider that particular setup to be excellent and with (usually) amazing accuracy (me included). You may can get away with a dummy barrel setup that has a threaded (nut maybe) section that would allow a bolt to be screwed against the front end of the arbor, after the wedge has been inserted, to align the barrel/cylinder with zero clearance.
Mike
It would be cheaper to get a new replacement cyl. But then the chambers are still under size. I have seen .005 to .007 under on the Italian repos
Doug how do you handle tapered chambers in cap and ball cylinders ?
I personally saw a current production Uberti percussion .44 New Model Army that had a slight non-visible taper (smaller towards the back) in the cylinder throats which defeated the use of the hand reamer guide attachment.
That cylinder currently has the guide piece wedged inside after a foolish attempt by yours truly to force it in further. Nothing I tried could get it out. Thankfully a new drop in replacement cylinder was handy.
I figure a .36 navy caliber 1858 New Model Navy cylinder would have plenty of wiggle room for reaming to bore size without much thinning of the cylinder walls but I would be hesitant to try because if it also has tapered chambers it won't work and the closest size to .36 cal cylinder reamers I see sold online are for cylinders that use .38 special/.357 cartridges (.357 bore) way too small.
I guess I would have to slug the bore and get a custom size reamer assuming the cylinder walls are not tapered.
I would love to be able to send it to someone who has the means and knowhow to do both the .44 and .36 percussion cylinders right.
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AND all three revolver owners are VERY happy and the 10x25mm Rugers drive nails like rifles!
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