The Clunker Photo

[kBob]

mykeal,

Thanks for the link. I actualy considered such a spring in the first place and then could not remember who made it or if it would work in most '51 clones.

While breakage of the spring of the original design is a major Colt problem ( high on the list of things that will fail in use) I had read somewhere that the wire model is near enough unbreakable to not worry about a spare, so it was appealing.

That makes me think I might post another question under a new heading, if not tonight then in the near future.

I am still concerned that the problem is that this no name revolver does not use a standard sized spring.

-Bob Hollingsworth

 

[kBob]

bigbad,

I think the appeal of the knife is its used look. Bill did not do a high polish on the blade while it was in work and that added a certain roughness, Then the light duty blueing allowed the actual use of the blade for digging, brush triming, kindling making, hammering and wire cutting made it look much more used than it was.

I have wondered if a single application of browning soulution to such a blade might allow similar "work aging" at an excellerated rate.

-Bob Hollingsworth

 

[NobleSniper]

Hello Bob, thats a neat piece. If you ever decide to get rid of the Lefachuex give me a holler Thanks, Craig

 

[.45Guy]

I have wondered if a single application of browning soulution to such a blade might allow similar "work aging" at an excellerated rate.

Here's an interesting thing I noticed. Back when our family farm was big into black raspberries, I'd use an old Barlow pocketknife to trim the first year canes. Doing this resulted in the blade taking on a rather glossy almost blued finish.

 

[DrLaw]

For some reason, the first thought I had was, if he had gone swimming, he was either wearing his clothes, or running around naked otherwise except for hankerchiefs!

The gun picture is okay, but the mental picture that comes up is anything but pretty!

The Doc is out now.

 

[Afy]

So how do the figs taste

 

[kBob]

Afy,

The Brown Turkey Figs STILL taste great, since the spousal unit made wonderous strawberry fig perserves from them. When we moved here the owner/builder told us he never got many figs. I did some triming, mulched, watered and we have plenty every year since. Told us the pear tree was to old to make edible fruit, cleaned out missltoe, watered, and they ARE "sand pears" (hard roundis pears that get gritty or "sandy" if left o the tree too long but they make great pies and jellies)

The non productive grapes he had produced well when , you guessed it trimmed , mulched and watered. They currently have something that is weaking then and we made no jelly this past year, though we have jelly left over from the year before.

Now to keep on topic. Way up stream some one mentioned the possibility that I had shot pecans from my tree with The Clunker.

Actually shortly after I got its brother from Cabela's I was playing with shot loads of #7 1/2 shot dryer lint and over and under wads of stiff paper.

Rapidly found that if you loaded more thanone cylinder that recoil could unseat the over shot card. It did work after a fashion. I was interested in something more anti snake than a .22LR pistol with rat shot.

Near the end of this madness I had loaded but not capped in the shop and when I stepped out Mr, Bushy Tail was happily tasting my figs (on the tree, not me, nasty guys) The darned tree rats will bite a fig with any brown on it and tear it open, eat it if it is rip or ruin it if it is still a bit green. Whipping out my capper with a single cap in it I capped and let fly. Scared the squirrel....and likely ruined more fruit that he did.

of course I haven't seen a snake on the property since so word must have gotten around..........

-Bob Hollingsworth

 

[kBob]

THE CLUNKER IDENTIFIED......

AT LAST!!!!!

bprevolver has stated that the COM marking under the loading lever was a marking on ASM revovlers from Sile.

So The Clunker appears to be an ASM if this is correct.

Now does anyone know if ASM bras framed 1851 colts in .44 use parts of unusual size or shape.

My dad has decided he wants a working gun now rather than just a wall hanger (I thought guys in their late 70's were supposed to be set in their ways, not changable, etc.) so getting The Clunker working has become more important, though if it gets working and I like the way it shoots he may get something else.

Currently I installed the new bolt , got it to fit the bolt cuts and then found that the hand engages before the bolt drops free locking that thing up tighter than Ft. Knox. I loath attemptiong to polish the hand as I have never had luck with that.

Armi San Marcos, imagine that.

-kBob

 

[kBob]

Well as there now seems to be soe question as to whether C.O.M. is an ASM marking or not i did some measuring and I will now post a copy of what I just posted on Dr. Davis' BPRC board in the hopes of gaining enlightenment as to where and what parts I might need.

I recently did some measurements on the Klunker in the hopes of helping to ID the maker

I did the most obvious difference to me first. Measuring across the bottom of the grip from front to rear on a Pietta of not so long ago gave a measuremnt of 2.333 inches, but the Klunker only measures 2.067 the same way. While the Pietta seems to have a recurve or lessening of the curve as the backstrap nears the butt making a visual flair, theKlunker is straight.

As the hammer from a Pietta would not even go in the hammer slot of the Klunker I measured finding the Pietta hammer to be .331 inches wide and the Klunker hammer to be .314 inches wide.

The rebated Pietta cylinder (Both are brass .44s) was 1.989 inches long and the Klunker 1.828 inches long. Width across the front was 1.595 on the pietta and 1.569 on the Klunker.

Oddly the klunker had a larger in diameter arbor coming in at .434 inches compared to .430 on the Pietta.


Any help identifying actual maker and a source of appropriate parts would be appreciated.

-kBob