BreechFace
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I think that @BigBlue 94 is saying that maybe hot 357 loads are what caused the damage, not that he's going to load hot and shoot.
Colt Frame welded?
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I think that @BigBlue 94 is saying that maybe hot 357 loads are what caused the damage, not that he's going to load hot and shoot.
Robbins290
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I work with all kinds of metal for cosmetic things. They have a paste that prevents that. I tried it on a stainless pipe sleeve on a JC higgins shotgun. If they used that, there would be no way of knowing. Kinda glas they didnt in this case.
jmorris
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I use this when I am welding heat sensitive things.
https://markal.com/products/anti-heat-heat-absorbing-compound
For me it’s generally aluminum heat exchanger cores that have been sweated and I am welding tanks to them.
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BigBlue 94
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Correct, I will not be shooting this one with hot loads. I was making the assumption that some 38spec +p+ style of loads might have been used. You can almost read the headstamps on the back wall of the frame!
SGW Gunsmith
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Some here may remember the days of Lee Juras and his "Super-Vel" ammunition. That stuff ended the life of many .38 Special revolvers.
Col. Harrumph
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Yeah, his book, Sixguns, has several pics of blown-up revolvers... with (ahem) no attribution.
SGW Gunsmith
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I can also remember seeing several six-round .45 Colt cylinders blown to smithereens by Dick Casull with his "triplex-load" of three different gun powders, when developing the .454 Casull cartridge. No doubt the main reason that cartridge now requires a five-round cylinder since then.
Can't help but wonder how much longer it would have been until the .44 Magnum became a reality if it weren't for 'ol Elmer and his antics.
SGW Gunsmith
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I have that book, and you're correct, that there are pictures of blown-up six-gun cylinders and top straps on two pages. Only mentions that they've been ruined, not by who. When I had my shop down in southeastern Wisconsin I used to attend the NSGA show in Chicago's McCormick place every year in February. That was sorta the precedent before S.H.O.T. was started.
While walking down one of the isles I spotted Bill Jordon coming my way along with a huge hat walking next to him. Under the hat was Elmer Keith. Quite a pair walking together. I stopped and asked Elmer how I could get a copy of his book, "Hell, I Was There". He gave me a card with his address in Salmon, ID and said the book was $20.00 shipped, and if I wanted it autographed with a "to message" it would be $25.00 and, I could send a check. I told him the plain one would be fine for $20.00 and Bill Jorden laughed like mad. Elmer did sign the book anyway:
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BigBlue 94
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If only i were to find an EK stamped under a grip panel... Or something of that nature. If that were the case, id don my armor and try to blow it up a second time, just for "old times' sake" lol
SGW Gunsmith
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What if the gun actually belonged to "Elijah Kline"? Would you still try to ruin it?
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BigBlue 94
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What if the gun actually belonged to "Elijah Kline"? Would you still try to ruin it?
I dont know who that is, so the thought would never cross my mind!
Bcwitt
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I think a lot more bluing would be gone if it was welded.
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In Howes Modern Gunsmithing book written in the 1930's there is a section describing a repair where a hot load burst the cylinder and peeled off the top strap. This was expertly fixed by replacing the cylinder and carefully bending and straightening the frame and welding it. If that was what happened it was expertly done on your revolver. Whether it is to be shot is entirely up to your judgement, personally I would shoot it with target loads.
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