BC17A
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I need to polish up the center pin to reduce gouging the aluminum frame.
Funny you should mention this. The rest of this reply should interest you.
I hate to be the one that posts this but.... as a mother's day gift I purchased a new Pink Lady .38spl. using snap caps and empty chambers I found that the gun locks up on occasion. There is a .44spl bulldog video recently load on youtube about the same problem.
I sent an email to C.A. and will see if I can take this back to the shop and have them do all the shipping since I cannot be home for a gun return.
I found out today exactly what's causing this issue. It's something in the contact of the trigger and cylinder stop. I discovered this after I found another issue with the ejector rod in mine.
Seems Bubba must work at the CA plant. As I was cleaning mine after it's first range trip, I noticed some small machining chips left on the ejector gear teeth. Once I put on an eye-loupe and took a closer look, I also noticed the end of the ejector appeared to have been either filed or run across a grinder. No idea why they would have done this, but it may have been the rod wouldn't lock into the frame when the cylinder was closed. I decided to remove the ejector rod and have a closer look and sure enough it was ugly(see pic). Since I was going to replace it anyway, I chucked it in my lathe and polished down the rough marks. After reinstalling it I started to get an occasional cylinder lock-up in both SA and DA. What started happening was occasionally the cylinder would move up at the rear as a result of slightly smaller diameter of the ejector rod and allow the cylinder stop to raise just enough to misalign its notch with the trigger's notch so they wouldn't mesh. All it took to correct this was to lightly push the rear of the cylinder down. Once I get a new ejector rod installed it should keep the cylinder from moving and prevent this from happening.
Had I left it alone, the ejector rod would have eaten into the frame in no time. Guess this is why these revolvers are so cheap.
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