Recent content by dangt

Driftwood Johnson, I am familiar with all you wrote above. I of course saw the tolerance range of the SAAMI drawing for the linear measurements. Both the O.P.s gun and my own are well outside that tolerance range . I do plan to shoot the gun first but am ready to act by changing calibers if...

Later I searched again and the MMC was on the SAAMI drawing of the .357 chamber. Also I read the wrong column in the ISO tolerance specs. It was even larger than I thought at plus or minus 0.2mm (plus or minus 0.008 inches) ! Some readers here are not in the least excited but I will be...

According to the Uberti drawing, dated Dec. 21, 2021, they MAY all be that size. My gun is date coded 2022. In looking up the tolerance meaning, I thought I had seen a Maximum Material Condition call-out on in the ISO specs but now cannot find it. I too measure things like bore size and...

I also called Taylor's about the large throats in my Uberti .357 . Its throats measure 0.365" with gage pins. A copy of a Uberti drawing was sent to me with no warning about confidentiality so I'll attempt to post it here. The only slightly confusing thing is the tolerance note at the...

expat_alaska, Browning and rust bluing are indeed related. Bluing or blackening just turns the surface rust black by boiling. Take a look at Angier's _Firearms Blueing and Browning_. I have used two different rust blue solutions on at least four complete guns I can easily think of. I did...

Sounds like you are satisfied with what is now going on with your 1851 cleaning disaster. Here is a pic ( I hope) of the conversion I did more than twenty years ago. I was wrong about the finish; it was Bownell's Dicropan IM. Looking the gun over today I see the bluing on the cylinder and...

Newbie on this forum but I'm a long time shooter and collector. Probably best to sell it and get another. Someone will buy it with the screwed up finish. Dont make up procedures and concoctions to clean it . For instance, ammonia would have been bad also. I'll be real interested to find...