broken paw spring....

by D. Sikes , Monday, July 28, 2014, 10:02 (3777 days ago) @ Charles

This happens quite often with the italian made clones of the cap and ball revolvers... I've had a couple do this .... it happens usually with repeated rough handling of the revovler... as in overly fast and hard pull of the hammer... numerous "quick draw" practice...

One other thing it could be is the pivot pin either broke or fell out on the paw from the hammer... however.. when this happens, it usually locs up the hammer...

Also, when replacing the paw, not all paws are made the same for an individual manufacturer of the revovler... nor even of the same make and model from different years...

On one 1860 (made by Uberti back in the 80's) I had to search and buy several paws before I found one that I still had to hand file and modify to make it work...

But it can be done... GRIN