The RUGER OLD ARMY Club

My Evil Twin (J-Bar) uses equal parts vegetable shortening/beeswax for an over the ball lube. I use felt wads soaked in whatever bullet lube I am using on my rifle bullets under the ball. Both work and neither of us is going to change. He likes his guns to run "juicy" and I don't.
Chain fires or multiple discharges: NO they don't always come from the cap end of the chamber. I have had 5 multiple discharges using 1860 Army pistols. Most were, while I was in a learning mode, caused by poor choice of bullet alloy in which the too hard ball did not seal the chamber and neither wad nor lube was in use. Others were unknown.
In every case, the ball to the left of the chamber under the hammer went a fraction of a second after the one under the hammer. No other chambers fired. In two cases the extra ball did in fact hit the target. The only indication of anything amiss on the gun was a very slight lead smear on the side of the barrel.
In EVERY case the cap on the unintended chamber was unfired and in place after the discharge.
I have been using the ROAs for over a year and have had no problems with it. I continue to use the lubed wad under the ball.

If you want to lube the BP revolver chamber mouths use a high heat resistance grease. Animal fats have a low heat resistance. The Mobile 1 Red Synthetic Grease can be bought in any NAPA Store. It is made to take high temps.

http://www.mobil.com/english-US/Grease/pds/GLXXMobil-1-Synthetic-Grease

I buy my mutton tallow at Dixie Gun Works:

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=3686&osCsid=lkk6kllei7v7hgm4cvk3a8fjj4

The various ones I see on Amazon are incredibly expensive. I'd buy from Durofelt before I bought any from there.

You could also ask at a local meat market, though you might have to render it yourself.

According to Gatofeo other fats work, but he found mutton's to work best.

There are many many different but similar recipes. You could try others.

I've bought mutton tallow from durofelt, $13 and free freight, but they are closed for few months.

Christmas present from me to me

[email protected] said:

Does Walmart carry mutton tallow?
What would be a viable substitute?

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I used rendered venison fat, because after 1st seeing the ingredients I happened to get a fat doe and rendered over a pint of tallow.

I finally pulled these ROAs out of the safe. They need to be inspected once in awhile.

Dog Soldier said:

I finally pulled these ROAs out of the safe. They need to be inspected once in awhile.View attachment 227555

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That is a Fine Set, DS!

Yes! Nice bunch Dog Soldier!!

I have heard so many competition folks say the same thing about the mobile 1 grease, I've switched to that as well. Seems to work very well. Thank you.

Mike

Mike, animal fats make great gravy for your cat head biscuits. But those lubes can not handle the high heat of explosives. Mobile 1 Red Lube is a synthetic developed to protect tie rods. This lube does not smoke out of the chambers after the first round.

Deleted; dumb question, should have read previous posts more carefully.

Here is mine

Hi y'all. Can someone give me a suggestion where to buy a good nipple wrench for the ROA? I'm using the Ruger nipples. Thanks!

I eventually found a 3/16 nut driver to use. Fits perfectly and gives a nice grip for torque.

Classicballistx news -

First we’ve had to say in a while - two updates to report.

One is an upside - Classicballistx has a new manufacturing arrangement and a couple of design tweaks that fix some fitting quirks. It's a much smaller fab shop that responds to feedback and produces in lots of 10-15 instead of hundreds. And now, through forty-five units, the tweaks have provided spot-on timing and positive lockup. The cylinders all see an optical comparator before getting to us for tests on our frames. The steel (same 416 as before) comes to us as a co-op buy with a barrel maker you’d recognize. They inspect our bars exactly as they do their own.

Two is the downside, price. If you've visited classicballistx.com recently, you probably got heartburn over the new pricing. We do. Steel costs more. Our new tooling cost a lot. And the production arrangement, ideal as its quality is, is about twice our old one. (staying with the old maker was going to cost almost as much for less quality) At the end of the day, our variable costs about doubled. And we're picking up the tooling as well, but it's ours. We still break even, so we're sticking around.

There's a Three, for a while anyway. We continue the $25/cyl discount for THR ROA Club members and SASS folks. There's more. Until the end of February or until we run through the inventory on hand, we're honoring last year’s prices to Club members. Email [email protected], tell us what you want, and we'll invoice you at the old price along with your discount. On a standard stainless cylinder, that's over $50 savings. But it's not forever.

Last, there's a policy change you ought to appreciate. On standard cylinder orders, we will respond to payments with a tracking number or refund the payment until the order is ready to ship. Those of you whose kind patience got tested in the past while we waited on cylinders to send you won't experience that again, ever. And we won't feel like stoats anymore, not for this anyway.

No more to say, except that when we spot so many of the club’s 240 members in our client list, some of whom bought from us years before Clembert started it, we thank you all. There are a lot of folks whose ROA’s shoot better because of all y'all. Thanks!


Regards,


Edo
CBX

The Classicballistx cylinder is an excellent product. I have never had a problem with this high quality gun part. If you own an ROA a back up cylinder is a good idea.

I've read a couple of accounts from unhappy customers mainly due to lack of communications from ClassicBallistx. However, the cylinder I bought from them was better in quality and tolerances than the Ruger factory cylinder. The individual chambers were all uniform whereas the Ruger chamber mouths varied. The ClassicBallistx chambers are also bored deeper and hold more powder. ROA owners have a superior choice available with the ClassicBallistx cylinder IMO.

I found the people at Classicballistix to be above average in communications. They not only excel in providing an excellent product but are very customer conscious.

My first post. Wanted to join the club.

Traded a Smith 6904 even. Felt I came out way ahead.

Thanks, Red.

Ok got some basic pictures of the new to me ROA. will try for better when I have more time
I sent an email to clements to find when I can ship for the 50 cal upgrade personally sooner the better.

He will blue the new cylinder and barrel but not sure if he will reblue rest

as I said other day some people should not be allowed to own /use weapons or tools
But then with this being about 40 years old and only a BP gun didn't expect it to be in pristine shape.

and lately been so busy here just haven't had the time to really go over it. Maybe Monday

"...as I said other day some people should not be allowed to own /use weapons or tools..."

Thanks for giving her a good home with a family that loves her!

clements says I can ship now but it will be months before he can start. So That may not be happening.
I understand back logs and such but if I ship now I would expect a 60 day turn around or so

Red Prevatt said:

My first post. Wanted to join the club.

Traded a Smith 6904 even. Felt I came out way ahead.

Thanks, Red.

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You are lucky. I have bought many ROA revolvers. Finding a used gun with the Ruger nipple wrench is a find. There must a corner in the Elephant's Grave Yard filled with these tools?

DD4lifeusmc said:

clements says I can ship now but it will be months before he can start. So That may not be happening.
I understand back logs and such but if I ship now I would expect a 60 day turn around or so

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Mine took less time than he predicted sent it to him in November , and sent it back to me in Jan. Last year. It was worth the wait.