I had been messing with the pocket revolvers and kinda forgot about my 1851 Navy 36 cal. ( Probably because it was no fun to shoot with cap jam after cap jam)
So since I am here at the house for a few days, ( I had hernia surgery yesterday ) I did some CPR on that Cap Jamming hunk of almost trout line weight.
This will be my 4th cap rake install.The first ones were done with the penny type cap rake. I had very good results with those. This time I drilled and tapped the rake hole and used a 6x 32 brass bolt. The whole project took me about 2 hours.
Here I have the hole drilled and tapped and now to cut down that bolt. Once I got the hammer notch expanded and the post the correct height it was screwed in with red loc'tite. A little clean up and it was ready to shoot.
I tested some caps first and I was getting the chills.. so far so good. Now came the true test. I RAN 50 rounds through this thing and not a single cap jam. You can see where the rake catches the spent caps and keeps them from falling in the action
It makes me wonder, how many folks were in the same boat as me. BUYING these things, changing nipples. Swapping caps, polishing, honing and finally those cap suckers are just put away.
This upgrade has really given me a shot of penicillin and renewed my interest in these guns.
Thank you 45 Dragoon and J-Bar
Randy
So since I am here at the house for a few days, ( I had hernia surgery yesterday ) I did some CPR on that Cap Jamming hunk of almost trout line weight.
This will be my 4th cap rake install.The first ones were done with the penny type cap rake. I had very good results with those. This time I drilled and tapped the rake hole and used a 6x 32 brass bolt. The whole project took me about 2 hours.
Here I have the hole drilled and tapped and now to cut down that bolt. Once I got the hammer notch expanded and the post the correct height it was screwed in with red loc'tite. A little clean up and it was ready to shoot.
I tested some caps first and I was getting the chills.. so far so good. Now came the true test. I RAN 50 rounds through this thing and not a single cap jam. You can see where the rake catches the spent caps and keeps them from falling in the action
It makes me wonder, how many folks were in the same boat as me. BUYING these things, changing nipples. Swapping caps, polishing, honing and finally those cap suckers are just put away.
This upgrade has really given me a shot of penicillin and renewed my interest in these guns.
Thank you 45 Dragoon and J-Bar
Randy
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