Recent content by bartbrn

I believe -- could be wrong, usually am -- I saw in the "How It's Made" video shot in the Uberti works, and Uberti's own videos and literature, that Uberti's steel parts are color case-hardened, then the frame is left in the colors of the case hardening, while the other visible parts of the gun...

Yes, I've even seen older ones the steel parts of which -- including the barrel -- weren't even blued, and in some instances, particularly important parts -- the hammer and its mechanism, the barrel, the cylinder -- not even case-hardened, with instructions in the kit how to do that with...

Thanks for the info! I DO have, on my Plex Media Server, 4 Uberti-made video shorts (around 1 minute each) about the Uberti 1860 Army, 1848 Dragoon, 1851 and 1861 Navy, 1862 New Model Pocket Revolver (Pocket Navy) and 1862 New Model Police (based on the 1860 Army, with shorter barrel and fluted...

That could well be so, especially given the crude removal of metal on the right side of the brass frame. I guess I really don't understand the proofing process and standard for black powder firearms, if it was the case that proof marks applied only to a random full-production sample, or each...

The screws on the right side are proud by at most .015" -- I'm trying to get a photo of the frame that highlights the overenthusiastic buffing wheel work. Don't know, but I've broken the Sile Navy .36 down to the action, and have found NO markings (except those already noted on the barrel)...

No problem whatsoever. Thanks! Bart

Malamute -- Thanks for the suggestions! Been talking with VTI just today about guessing what and whose parts might salvage (if necessary) the Sile. Uberti was their best guess, too. "Isn't it amazing how many people post without reading the thread?" How can you tell how many people post...

Carefully got the wedge retaining screw out, took out the wedge, using the loading lever plunger between cylinders, slowly pressing until the barrel assembly separated from the frame pins, and dropped gently into my hand. The amazing thing to me is that I "light-sighted" with my MkI eyeball...

Thanks! I'll try that. The confusion over these "orphans," some of them 20-40 years old, is understandable, but maddening, when you don't know whose parts fit what. For another example on this Siles Navy .36, some previous owner made an attempt to "pretty up" the grips -- now they don't quite...

Hi -- I recently bought, from my local gun shop, a replica 1851 brass-framed octagon-barrel Colt Navy in .36 caliber. Roll stamped on the left vertical flat of the octagonal barrel is "SILE - INC NEW YORK," roll stamped on the flat immediately below that is "BLACK POWDER ONLY," and stamped on...