Check The Whole Gun When You Need Parts As You May Need More Than One Part.

[karlunity]

I have a 1851 pietta..a battered old fella..but he was my first black powder colt.

 

so when I found a hand and spring was needed the spring had snapped.

Part came from VTI..good price fast service..I spent 3 hours fitting it..not a problem as slow work is careful work..BUT soon as I get everything done and the Colt together it has more timing problems..seems the "Pietta Bolt" had a broken arm. Gotta order the part and now I gotta wait til Monday for the part.

 

Check the whole gun when you need parts as you may need more than one part.

 

karl

[AzRednek]

I have a 1851 pietta..a battered old fella..but he was my first black powder colt.

 

so when I found a hand and spring was needed the spring had snapped.

Part came from VTI..good price fast service..I spent 3 hours fitting it..not a problem as slow work is careful work..BUT soon as I get everything done and the Colt together it has more timing problems..seems the "Pietta Bolt" had a broken arm. Gotta order the part and now I gotta wait til Monday for the part.

 

Check the whole gun when you need parts as you may need more than one part.

 

karl

 

...and I thought that only happened when working on cars

[karlunity]

One good thing did come of it.

I never realized how dirty BP guns got till I took the 51 all apart.

The ole fellas on the range told me that "You have to take it apart to get it fully clean.

Looks like they were right. I would have sworn it was "clean" but .nope.

 

The good thing was that I took the 1860 and 1858 apart and they also needed cleaning.

 

 

Now they are perfect. I just got to find an out door range.

 

Very helpful vids from youtube.

 

 

 

karl

[karlunity]

Part came..it fit and the Revolver is fixed.

 

karl