So, I bought a lamp...

[oldpaul]

Thanks for the kind comments gentlemen. The reminiscence about the .50 cal Brownings as a display reminded me that it seemed every EM Club I entered while in the Army had a montage of captured foreign arms as a display but I never saw anything as impressive as dual 50s.

As I alluded to in my last post, the conical shaped hole for the firing pin presented some tedious problems. My lathe is a little 6" Atlas so it doesn't have enough swing over the bed to turn the revolver frame even if it could be affixed somehow with a lathe dog. So, I clamped a flat machine vice to the drill press and positioned the frame in the vice. The inside of the frame was marked using a punch through the primer hole of a .38WCF case temporarily installed with the cylinder. The firing pin was removed from the hammer and the resulting hole was used to mark the outside of the frame. I then drilled a small hole, mark to mark to serve as a pilot and used a standard lathe center drill to hog out the biggest portion of the coned hole and then the Dremel to finish contour and polish. Often I have read that the firing pin on these is pinned to the hammer. They either don't know, or neglect to say that it is also threaded and screws into the hammer. Frustrating to remove if you don't know that little tidbit. The threads are visible in pic 2. The cylinder hand was too short and required some careful peening to lengthen and stoning back to get the timing spot on and the little hammer block piece that fits in the hand needed some massaging with needle files to fit and operate properly. Then the relatively straight forward lanyard ring and a walnut plug for the grip. Next post the final assembly. Tom