I'm done with UBERTI / BENELLI USA

[Dellbert]

LOL

Makos you would feel funny if I took you up on the offer. Here Let me help you out a little, wait there just 3 seconds. tic toc tic toc tic toc NoooOOO!!! Now I have my walker in my room, it's laying their in about five or six pieces. The spring is smooth, Got to run, That spring is not going to be the easiest thing one has ever tryed to put on. later Dell :banghead:

 

[Dellbert]

The Job is done. Gentleman was right found out four hands is better than two when putting one of them springs. not only do my hands hurt. but my teeth aren't feeling so good this morning either. Want to think all you folks for the help ans support.

 

[makos_goods]

Makos you would feel funny if I took you up on the offer. Here Let me help you out a little, wait there just 3 seconds. tic toc tic toc tic toc NoooOOO!!! Now I have my walker in my room, it's laying their in about five or six pieces. The spring is smooth, Got to run, That spring is not going to be the easiest thing one has ever tryed to put on. later Dell :banghead:

Hey Dellbert.
I wasn’t kidding… I need a mate for my Uberti. The ASM is just not as nice, the fit, finish and action are so much nicer on the Uberti. I don't compete with my Walkers except on a lark, so I haven't been pursuing a second Uberti.

I’m just glad you got it right.

There are tools to help you with the mainspring. I have a “universal” tool of the Lafayette pattern. They are nice and you can use it on a lot of side locks the Walkers, Dragoons and Patersons. Mine I believe is a Pedersoli I think I paid about $20 over ten years ago for it. There are cheaper alternatives that should work great for your Walker, check this one out.



Only $14.95 at the Possibles Shop and it won't marr your brass front strap.

http://www.possibleshop.com/s-s-tools.html

There are others out there like the one form Taylors, I think it is the same one Dixie and everyone else sells. You have to protect your frame with this one.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/default.aspx?productNumber=179542

What most people don't realize is that the Combination Tool for the Walker which has a cone/tube wrench on one end and a screwdriver on the other was also the spring removal tool.



But I wouldn't recommend using it, you will ding up the front strap.

I had to search for it, but I remembered that a member had posted pics a few years back. It was pohill and he shows how it was used. The vise in his second picture is a Lafayette style like mine. The difference with mine is that I have dipped the "fixed jaw" in that elastomeric Plasti-Dip and it protects the brass. I like the Pedersoli because it has checkering on the fixed jaw face and it rotates. With the Plati-Dip on it the checkering works great and doesn't bite the brass. As I said it is more of a universal tool and you don't need it unless you have other firearms with "V" or "U" shaped torsion springs. The first one I showed you will work right out of the package.

For what it's worth, here's some pics of how to remove the Walker mainspring (not the only way - I can remove mine by hand now since the mainspring has weakened a little. You can also use visegrips). The bend in the Walker nipple wrench always puzzled me until I read a description in a Colt patent.

Regards,
Mako

 

[Foto Joe]

The tools and gadgets look really cool in the range box however, I've found the easiest mainspring vise ever is......a tie wrap!! (wire tie, zip tie, et. al.)

I had a Walker that liked to be taken apart at the range just to keep it running. I took to carrying a couple of tie wraps. Pull the grips, zip the tie wrap around the main spring and you're good to go.

If somebody's watching, you can always use the fancy tools too.

 

[DrLaw]

On old dog

You can learn something every day from this old internet. I never knew that the screwdriver/nipple wrench for the Walker was also the spring removing tool.
Thanks for the info (a leather flint wrap might take care of the possible marring of the front grip strap using that tool).

The Doc is out now.

 

[ClemBert]

+10,000 on the zip tie wrap. Easiest cheapest solution I've found. Been using that technique ever since I first learned about it here.

 

[scrat]

hahahah 10,000 zip ties

 

[Dellbert]

dang it all

I,m not mad, or anything like that. but all this infor is just a day late. WHERE were you guys last night? I,m glad you put this on here. I'll sure be ordering one of these soon. I don't care to go through last night again ever. I had a inline to try to sight in today, my hands were so sore from working on that spring, I couldn't get a good grip on the ram rod to load, or push the patches back and fourth through the bore of the rifle. I managed to get about nine round down range, but gave in. Lord willing, I'll get another chance at it little after a coffee, or two come morning. Oh for what its worth, if I could help you out on any other model revolver I would. Last night after he, my son was able to hold everything together so I could get the screws back in, I looked him in the eyes, and told him " its personal now". If I were to ever carry a black powder handgun, this is the one I would carry. He took it in his hands and said to me, if you run out of bullets you could always hit'em over the head with it'. I mean this is frying pan heavy hear. I sure wouldn't want to get hit in the head with it.You wouldn't have to shoot at them with it, Just fire at the feet and by the blast, and smoke alone would scare the heck out of them. Normally, I carry a S&W 41 magnum, or a 45 auto all the time. I shoot them all the time, just to keep how to sight and point in mind. Thinking about posting a pic, here with the three of them side by side. That walker makes the other two look so small it's funny to look at them together. Heck I'd like to have folks like you here, or somewhere to hunt with. Sounds like we could have a blast.