Or "It's beyond our mechanical abilities....

by rob , Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 19:22 (3444 days ago) @ bj

I could have saved that gun easily and I'm just a shade tree gun mechanic. Being a real (auto) mechanic with common sense...and having to solve real mechanical problems, though is a big help. A real gunsmith would have removed the cylinder, milled off the barrel extension inside the cylinder window and unscrewed it or cut the old barrel off, mill it flush with the frame and screw it through into the cylinder window. If none of that would do it would be easy to drill the barrel out until almost flush with the threads and it would have come out in three pieces. Where there is a will there is a way.