Post by whichfinger on Jan 30, 2020 22:25:13 GMT
By Ulmus
Dec 06, 2012#1
Got a call from Heritage today about my Big Bore.
You know, the .357 that I took apart and put back together trying to find a broken spring or pin that was causing the transfer bar to flop back and forth?
Well, Pink Pearl told me that the gunsmiths/engineers inspected the gun and found nothing wrong with it. :shocked1: The transferbar is supposed to be loose for lifting and pivoting evidently. :oops: I thought I had broken something during a rigorous cleaning job because the transfer bar had lifted and stuck under the firing pin so tightly I had to pry it loose with a dentist tool.
Pink let me know that they were going to test fire the revolver just to make sure everything is fine and send it back to me.
Oh, and I have that spring under the trigger spring figured out. Since there is no spring on the cylinder hand, the spring behind the trigger spring is the cylinder hand spring. (Which means I need a different part number to get the correct replacement spring.)
So in the end I learned quite a few things.
One, These guns are tough! They can handle my over agressive cleaning and my unexperienced repair work.
Two, My gun has a different spring than what is shown on the schematic. Good to know when ordering back up springs just in case.
Three, I can now take down and reassemble my revolver correctly!
Four, The springs are stronger than I expected. I checked each one out when I took aprat the gun and they looked every bit as good as the replacements I ordered. No stress marks or soft spots in any of them I am definitely not over working the gun.
Five. Stay in contact! By keeping in touch, Heritage was able to hep me out, send a shipping lable, understood exactly what my concerns were, and conctaced me with their observations and results.
Not bad given everything. :wink1:
Dec 06, 2012#1
Got a call from Heritage today about my Big Bore.
You know, the .357 that I took apart and put back together trying to find a broken spring or pin that was causing the transfer bar to flop back and forth?
Well, Pink Pearl told me that the gunsmiths/engineers inspected the gun and found nothing wrong with it. :shocked1: The transferbar is supposed to be loose for lifting and pivoting evidently. :oops: I thought I had broken something during a rigorous cleaning job because the transfer bar had lifted and stuck under the firing pin so tightly I had to pry it loose with a dentist tool.
Pink let me know that they were going to test fire the revolver just to make sure everything is fine and send it back to me.
Oh, and I have that spring under the trigger spring figured out. Since there is no spring on the cylinder hand, the spring behind the trigger spring is the cylinder hand spring. (Which means I need a different part number to get the correct replacement spring.)
So in the end I learned quite a few things.
One, These guns are tough! They can handle my over agressive cleaning and my unexperienced repair work.
Two, My gun has a different spring than what is shown on the schematic. Good to know when ordering back up springs just in case.
Three, I can now take down and reassemble my revolver correctly!
Four, The springs are stronger than I expected. I checked each one out when I took aprat the gun and they looked every bit as good as the replacements I ordered. No stress marks or soft spots in any of them I am definitely not over working the gun.
Five. Stay in contact! By keeping in touch, Heritage was able to hep me out, send a shipping lable, understood exactly what my concerns were, and conctaced me with their observations and results.
Not bad given everything. :wink1: