Monday Morning Charter Arms Blues

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There really is nothing better than starting off the work week in the hole, but that seems to be SOP for me.
Years ago my mom bought a Charter Arms Off Duty revolver probably of '80s vintage marked Stratford, CT. It basically set in her nightstand for all of those years never being used. My mom passed away in 2017 and my sister ended up with the house and brought out that revolver the other night while I was visiting to ask me about it. The cylinder latch was not working correctly because some rust had developed underneath it, so, I brought it to work today to try and clean it up a bit. I removed the latch screw and as I was working with it the rust broke lose and the latch plate, spring and plunger flew off into the fourth dimension. I've swept and vacuumed and looked through the dirt to no avail. I'm assuming the parts went through a black hole.
Is Numrich the only place I can get these little parts? It's $44 to get these three little parts from them and I'm just steaming that I couldn't manage to even find one of them on the floor.
The other question is do all of the old Charter Arms revolvers use the same parts or am I going to have to look for something specific to this gun?
 
Borrow/rent one of those magnets on rollers to sweep the floor again. Shine a powerful flashlight at a low angle over everything in the room and look for shadows. Did you check your pockets and pants cuffs? If they are not on the floor they could be hiding on top of something else. Offer a kid $20 to find all those parts and get some fresh eyes in there.

Welcome to the club, been there myself. Could you tell??

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Phydeaux642 said:
There really is nothing better than starting off the work week in the hole, but that seems to be SOP for me.
Years ago my mom bought a Charter Arms Off Duty revolver probably of '80s vintage marked Stratford, CT. It basically set in her nightstand for all of those years never being used. My mom passed away in 2017 and my sister ended up with the house and brought out that revolver the other night while I was visiting to ask me about it. The cylinder latch was not working correctly because some rust had developed underneath it, so, I brought it to work today to try and clean it up a bit. I removed the latch screw and as I was working with it the rust broke lose and the latch plate, spring and plunger flew off into the fourth dimension. I've swept and vacuumed and looked through the dirt to no avail. I'm assuming the parts went through a black hole.
Is Numrich the only place I can get these little parts? It's $44 to get these three little parts from them and I'm just steaming that I couldn't manage to even find one of them on the floor.
The other question is do all of the old Charter Arms revolvers use the same parts or am I going to have to look for something specific to this gun?
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I had almost the same exact experience with a Charter Arms revolver a little over a year ago.

I thrashed around with it some, but the thing that fixed the problem was sending it to Charter and letting them do it.

Nice, professional, east coast kinda people. 'Twas a pleasure to do business with them.
 
just so you know you aren't the only one. there is a firing pin spring to my uberti rifle floating around somewhere in the bedroom. i wish my wife was one of the lazier ones, but i am sure it got vacuumed long ago.
...once i searched all over for a forend screw to my rossi 62, could not find it. got mad threw the other one down on the floor and it landed next to the first one. lol dc
 
Yep .. without the little tool Charter sells , its close to impossible…
 
Don't know if you realize it or not but the Charter can be made to work simply by tugging the cylinder rod forward to move the rear out of engagement. Skeeter had a .44 that gouged his thumb and he did (deliberately) what you did and shot the little one with no trouble.

Also contact the fine folks at Charter. They are still owned by the folks that helped start it and are very helpful.
 
This may sound odd but look around the room at the furniture and their nooks and crannies.
I lost a spring and pin from an S&W 22S years ago. I could not find it. Months later, when moving, I found it under my VCR at the back of my entertainment center. How it ricocheted there I will never know.
 
^^^^ @Pat Riot, What's a VCR? Is that some ancient artifact like them ole fashioned outdated wheelie guns you always talk about? LOL:neener:
Just kidding, I think we still have one of those around here... and lots of wheel guns:thumbup:
 
Sarge7402 said:
Don't know if you realize it or not but the Charter can be made to work simply by tugging the cylinder rod forward to move the rear out of engagement.
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Yep, but it leaves them unsightly holes in the side. Probably is more comfortable to shoot though.
 
Update: The latch plunger and plunger spring were not lost but were seized inside the latch and I didn't notice that until later in the day. I just assumed they flew off into oblivion. I soaked them over night in Liquid Wrench with no success. The only part that was lost was the latch cover plate but the latch is unusable in the state it is in. I emailed Charter Arms the situation and I'm going to have to buy the parts that I need.
 
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