Having just recently got into cap and ball stuff myself, I'm learning all about it. I have the original Colt 1860 I showed in another thread, and since then bought an Armi San Paolo Colt 1860 clone, and an Armi San Marco Remington 1858 clone. Both are fun to shoot. What I'm learning is that in a lot of these older Italian repro revolvers, the small internal parts were not the greatest quality steel, and wear out pretty quickly. I ended up replacing the trigger and cylinder hand/ spring in the Colt clone. Problem is, parts for that exact gun are pretty much nowhere to be found so I had to buy Pietta parts and make them work. I am fairly good at basic home-smithing and fitting parts where needed, but having limited experience in single action pistols, it's slow going. I took the Colt clone out the other day after replacing those parts, and although the function seemed ok and the cylinder timing right, something seemed different upon hammer fall. Like there was something impeding it's full travel forward. I fired it anyhow but got a few misfires. Upon cocking the hammer again and firing the next cylinder, twice I got the dreaded chain fire. Holy Shit!!!! That was scary. I fired off the last two cylinders on 2nd strike and put it away. I figured out that the new cylinder hand was way too thick and getting somewhat caught up in the little window next to the arbor. The caps weren't getting enough pressure to fire, but from the recoil of the adjacent cylinder going off, was enough to set off the previous misfired cylinder. I'm pretty sure I have it fixed now, after several hours of careful hand sanding and polishing. I'm taking it out again after IDPA tomorrow. We'll see what happens.
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