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Post by bobwright on Mar 20, 2018 20:52:15 GMT -5
I took this Super Blackhawk to the range last Saturday and ran a couple hundred rounds through it.  I came home and cleaned it as I usually do. This gun has the Belt Mountain base pin, and the set screw tends to work loose under recoil. So, after cleaning and reassembling, I decided to add a little Loc-Tite to the set screw. OOPS! a tad too much. So I wiped it down and put the gun away. Last night (Monday) I examined the gun, clearing it as soon as I got it out as is my custom. Then I worked the ejector, or tried to. It moved only about a quarter of an inch rearward. I knew immediately what had happened, Loc-Tite had seeped around the ejector rod binding it up. So I removed the ejector rod housing assembly and cleaned it off. Needed to remove the cylinder to get to the opening in the frame. The base pin was frozen in place and wouldn't budge! So now I had to remove the base pin latch assembly and drive the base pin out from the rear of the frame. In fairly short order I had all parts cleaned up and reassembled. Learned my lesson! Bob Wright |
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Post by dougphillips on Mar 20, 2018 21:02:14 GMT -5
At least now you know how much Loctite NOT to use...
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Post by sagebrushburns on Mar 20, 2018 23:10:33 GMT -5
Thank god it was blue, not red!
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Post by jdpress on Mar 21, 2018 4:21:22 GMT -5
Bob:
Beautiful Old Model, 3-screw, Super Blackhawk!
At a quick glance it almost looks like a Colt SAA New Frontier model......The stocks are exceptionally nice!
How did it group at the range?
Did you refinish this single-action?
Thanks for sharing this with us,
J.D. Press
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Post by bobwright on Mar 21, 2018 9:24:24 GMT -5
Bob: Beautiful Old Model, 3-screw, Super Blackhawk! At a quick glance it almost looks like a Colt SAA New Frontier model......The stocks are exceptionally nice! How did it group at the range? Did you refinish this single-action? Thanks for sharing this with us, J.D. Press Well, that look, like a New Frontier, is sort of the goal I shot for. I saw this gun in a gun shop, fitted with those fake mother of pearl grips with the rosewood backing and looking sort of forlorn in general. The price was right, so I bought it. Sent it off to Doug Turnbull for case hardening colors. First firing the ejector assembly came off, taking the barrel stub with it. Rebarreled the gun, and I sent the walnut pieces that I had on hand from a project to Cary Chapman, of CLC grips, who made the grips for me. Cary wasn't too enthralled with the wood, but I liked it anyway. As to accuracy, this gun does me proud! I've toned down my loads of late and shoot a milder .44 Magnum load, but it is dead center for me at twenty-five yards, using a six o'clock hold and a 6" diameter bullseye. Bob Wright |
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Post by pbcaster45 on Mar 21, 2018 9:48:04 GMT -5
Good story! Nice looking Super Blackhawk too, did you change out the Super Blackhawk hammer or did it come that way?
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Post by needsmostuff on Mar 21, 2018 9:49:58 GMT -5
A heat gun can help with Loctite,,,,,,,,, sometimes.
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Post by foxtrapper on Mar 21, 2018 12:57:25 GMT -5
If everyone is truthful about the thread title this is gonna go way past the hijack thread! Lol
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Post by foxtrapper on Mar 21, 2018 13:00:14 GMT -5
I’ll start, sold a perfect s&w model 14 target to fund a .......... bow! I did a dumb thing....
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Post by JM on Mar 21, 2018 13:31:06 GMT -5
I’ll start, sold a perfect s&w model 14 target to fund a .......... bow! I did a dumb thing.... Sold a NIB 4" S&W M19. I had just moved to the rain forest & figured it would rust.  Any of ya'll familiar with "That 70's Show"? Do you recall what Red Foreman often called his son? |
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Post by bobwright on Mar 21, 2018 15:42:49 GMT -5
Good story! Nice looking Super Blackhawk too, did you change out the Super Blackhawk hammer or did it come that way? My preferance has been the narrow upswept hammer spur on my Single Actions as it seems my thumb gets a better purchase of the spur:  I always swap out hammer spurs. Bob Wright |
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Post by mart on Mar 21, 2018 17:51:44 GMT -5
If everyone is truthful about the thread title this is gonna go way past the hijack thread! Lol I used to be young and dumb. I got over the young part a long time ago. |
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Post by dougphillips on Mar 21, 2018 21:51:00 GMT -5
I used to be young and dumb. I got over the young part a long time ago.[/quote] My first job interview... |
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Post by mart on Mar 22, 2018 15:44:00 GMT -5
I was once known as Sergeant Dumb a**, at least by one fellow.
I was a corrections sergeant and shift supervisor. One of my duties was to call in guys for over time in the event of a sick call or leave time. I needed a prisoner transport officer which narrowed my options. The fellow who took the slot was also a sergeant but was working for that day in a subordinate position to me. I was on night shift and he got there before I got off shift and immediately started changing the transport schedule. I stopped him and gave him a direct order to follow the schedule as written. To not do so would have messed up the other transport officer's day as the trips were coordinated around different transport needs such and medical appointments and court appearances. He wasn't happy about it but followed the schedule.
That night when I came in for my shift I got a call from one of the central transport guys telling me he had too much respect for me to say anything like that and it wasn't him or any of the central guys and the radio call came from our radio. I asked him what the heck he was talking about. He was surprised I hadn't heard.
It seems my OT guy, while having a discussion with one of our day shift guys, sat on his mike. Not the local facility radio mike, but the emergency services radio mike that all the transport officer have so they can communicate with the troopers and EMS. Apparently he went on at great length, locking up the emergency services radio for a large portion of South Central Alaska, telling the whole world what a dumb a** I was. The trooper captain was livid from what I heard.
Now anytime I run into one of his coworkers I always tell them to let him know that Sergeant Dumb a** says hello.
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Post by goodtime on Mar 24, 2018 21:13:11 GMT -5
I’ll start, sold a perfect s&w model 14 target to fund a .......... bow! I did a dumb thing.... Sold a NIB 4" S&W M19. I had just moved to the rain forest & figured it would rust. Any of ya'll familiar with "That 70's Show"? Do you recall what Red Foreman often called his son? Redd Foxx (playing Fred Sanford,) in a show televised in the '70s, often called his son a "big dummy!" |
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