A long while back, I came across a Euroarms 58 Remington repro in a second hand store, in sad shape, that included a R&D conversion cylinder that didn't fit. But for $50 for the set, how could I say no? I'm finally getting around to undoing the terrible attempt by the previous owner to "modernize" it with poorly dovetailed modern sights, etc. and getting it tuned up, prettied up, and timed. The gun itself is still pretty solid, just ugly. The conversion cylinder is in great shape, likely due to not fitting the pistol, though some light drag marks tells me it fit something at one time, though not likely this particular gun. It's just a hair too long to fit inside the cylinder space. It's the old style that has the hammer notches between the firing pins, which from my research is no longer made. It looks like I can shave a hair off the face of the forcing cone to make it work, but most likely will just leave things as is and pick up a Pietta 58 R to use it in. Would appreciate any thoughts someone may have on this as well as any good resources to learn about fitting these.
My curiosity though is about the conversion cylinder. It is marked under the cap with T P R&D. The P I am assuming is for Pietta, the R&D is obvious. Anyone have an idea what the T stands for? Taylors maybe? I'm not as familiar with conversion cylinders as I'd like to be.