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No cylinder click ? Please help!

PROHUNTER01PROHUNTER01 Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
edited February 2009 in Black Powder and Cowboy Action Shooting
I just purchased a Cimmaron Uberti 1873 Cattleman. The cylinder clicked when I first picked it up but I played with it a bit. Now it does not click, it just free rolls back and forth and it seems to be dragging ?

Does anyone know what's wrong ? Please help!

Thanks!
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  • music_madnessmusic_madness Member Posts: 53 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    you might check the hand spring...it could be as simple as removing the cylinder and spraying some brake cleaner in it. the spring could be broken; not a major repair and pretty common.
    PEACE
    tom
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  • ken44-40ken44-40 Member Posts: 201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by music_madness
    you might check the hand spring...it could be as simple as removing the cylinder and spraying some brake cleaner in it. the spring could be broken; not a major repair and pretty common.
    PEACE
    tom


    Definitely sounds like a broken hand spring or sticking hand. SOmetimes they pack grease that hardens in them when new & it gums up the works.
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  • Winston BodeWinston Bode Member Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If the cylinder rotates freely then the bolt stop is not rising up like it should. Probably a broken spring. The spring in question has two fingers on it and it is common for one of the fingers to break off. It is a simple fix, just get a new spring.

    If you want to check for sure then you have to disassemble the firearm. Do this by removing the back strap, (three screws), and trigger guard, (three screws). When you take the trigger guard off turn the revolver upside down and look inside. You should see a large screw head toward the front of the frame. This screw holds the spring in question. Look at it, if it has two seperate fingers coming back toward the back of the frame then it is fine. If it does not then the spring is broken. If it is broken then the broken piece should have fallen out when you took the trigger guard off.



    Anyway, let us know what it turns out to be.

    Bode
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  • idaramidaram Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Brownells sells a replacement upgrade spring that ain't very spendy. (9.00)

    Best
    Andy
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  • Mort4570Mort4570 Member Posts: 472 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    could you define 'played with it a bit' ? as in 'tore it down and now it don't work' maybe ?
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  • PROHUNTER01PROHUNTER01 Member Posts: 28 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mort4570
    could you define 'played with it a bit' ? as in 'tore it down and now it don't work' maybe ?


    Spun the cylinder fast.
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  • Mort4570Mort4570 Member Posts: 472 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Spun the cylinder fast.

    Looks cool on tv,very not good for SA's...wear and tear on the cylinder hand,and could break off the cylinder locking bolt if you let the hammer down while it' was still spinning.I suspect you've broken the bolt.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Definitely trigger and cylinder bolt lock spring.
    These commonly break and are unreliable. Reliability can be improved by tapering the two arms and filing a radius in the base between the two arms with a Swiss rat tail file.
    You can get a replacement copy or one made of bent up wire from Wolf springs.
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  • ken44-40ken44-40 Member Posts: 201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK PROHUNTER01. You shoulda checked it out by now. What wasit??
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