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This was given to me by a long-time friend in exchange for some work on a 1911. I was kind of looking for another Covid project anyway.
Before:
It appears to have been refinished and the action didn't work. The cylinder would rotate but didn't lock up. Single action and double action worked well. I finally got it apart down to parts and pieces and and scrubbed all the dried oil varnish and discovered the bolt was broken. I order the part from Jack First. Waiting for it to arrive, I found out that the original nickel gun had case-hardened triggers and hammers. The trigger guards and barrel latch were blued. I found a local plating outfit that would work on gun parts and had them strip the parts and blued everything with Brownell's Oxpho Blue.
Getting it all back together was an exercise in frustration but I think it looks pretty good and now the cylinder locks up!
Before:
It appears to have been refinished and the action didn't work. The cylinder would rotate but didn't lock up. Single action and double action worked well. I finally got it apart down to parts and pieces and and scrubbed all the dried oil varnish and discovered the bolt was broken. I order the part from Jack First. Waiting for it to arrive, I found out that the original nickel gun had case-hardened triggers and hammers. The trigger guards and barrel latch were blued. I found a local plating outfit that would work on gun parts and had them strip the parts and blued everything with Brownell's Oxpho Blue.
Getting it all back together was an exercise in frustration but I think it looks pretty good and now the cylinder locks up!