Colt wedges, arbors and the whole damn mess

[madcratebuilder]

Took off the cylinder and put the barrel back on to check arbor length and it was spot on.

Maybe the replica makers are learning that they well have fewer returns if they spend just a few more minutes on fitting during initial assembly.

 

[denster]

I wonder when they made these changes. I noticed the internalls are much nicer finished even in the spare parts pack I ordered with the gun. The bolt head fits the cylinder notches. The wedge is actually correct just a little too large. I assumed the off side was parrallel to the center line like Uberti. It's not it is tapered also the same amount so when it is 90 degrees to the axis of the arbor it adds it's taper to the other side. Anyway it works. What I thought was a late bolt drop was shipping goo. The trigger/bolt spring is much noticeably lighter. The only thing really necessary that I had to do was the hand was picking up the cylinder tooth just a tiny bit to early and the bolt was raising up a very tiny tick on the high side of the cylinder notch. Only took 4 or 5 thousandths off the top of the hand to fix that.
All in all pretty darn nice and not what I was expecting. Now if Pietta would just fire Luigi the Gorilla wedge setter they would have a home run.

 

[junkman_01]

Now if Pietta would just fire Luigi the Gorilla wedge setter they would have a home run.

Luigi has left Pietta. Now they hired Guido!

 

[madcratebuilder]

I wonder when they made these changes. I noticed the internalls are much nicer finished even in the spare parts pack I ordered with the gun. The bolt head fits the cylinder notches. The wedge is actually correct just a little too large. I assumed the off side was parrallel to the center line like Uberti. It's not it is tapered also the same amount so when it is 90 degrees to the axis of the arbor it adds it's taper to the other side. Anyway it works. What I thought was a late bolt drop was shipping goo. The trigger/bolt spring is much noticeably lighter. The only thing really necessary that I had to do was the hand was picking up the cylinder tooth just a tiny bit to early and the bolt was raising up a very tiny tick on the high side of the cylinder notch. Only took 4 or 5 thousandths off the top of the hand to fix that.
All in all pretty darn nice and not what I was expecting. Now if Pietta would just fire Luigi the Gorilla wedge setter they would have a home run.

I think the Italian makers have always had the talent to make a good revolver, they just didn't have the QC. I'm not 100% sure how the distribution chain works but I assume that places like Cabela's and Cimarron are direct with the manufacturers. It's seems to me a lot of revolvers have been returned to these sellers and this has to get back to the manufacturers as it hits the profit margin. Maybe the Italians are working on QC, the newer guns I have seen do appear to be of better quality.