The converted .44s shoot something like 25 grains of fffg powder. The round ball shoots up to 35 grains. Way more pressure than the cartridge produces, and, per Mec, less velocity, though with a heavier bullet than the 142 grain ball.
I think it is purely a liability thing with Kirst and R&D. We don't want anybody with a brass frame to sue us. If you got a steel frame, and it bursts, well, go ahead and sue us. That we got coverage for.
Anybody that has a well shot brass 60 or 51, would you please check the recoil ring, tell me if you have a washboard effect on the ring, or if the ring is mashed back toward the recoil shield? There should be no washboard effect, the center of the cylinder, outside the ratchet, is a solid surface. It contacts a solid suface, and with not too much of a slam, the pressure is just starting tio build up, it pushes it back there, and holds it there, while the pressure goes to maximum. There is no slam-bang. Damn near no wear at all. Most of the wear is at the wedge, and half of that, at least, is pipple banging the wedge in too tight.
There is them here saying that the Colts require a hammer and drift to get the wedge loose. Back then, they rapped the outer end of the wedge with the spare cylinder, slipped it out, replaced it, tapped it, lightly, with the empty cylinder.
Some of you guys simply hammer them too tight. You are mashing the arbor slot, and you are mashing the window in the barrel extension, toward the frame. QUit hammering on them.
Cheers,
George
