Pin loose in my 1860

[burnse]

I have a Uberti 1860 Army - One with the fully fluted cylinder.

Since owning it, I've fired all of maybe 60 shots through it, but i did notice, even before my first shot, that one of the two pins on the lower side of the front of the frame is not in place. You know, one of those pins which keep the barrel locked in place. I took some loctite red, applied it to the pin and the hole. Problem solved.

A month later, I went to shoot it, again, in a nice pasture in South Dakota. Remove barrel, pin comes out, spend hour looking for it. Recover it. I have not fired it since.

The only thing I've done with this since then is to shorten the barrel to 4" in order to make it a viable carry option (Though that is a project to finish later).

What I wonder, then, is:

Can I send this to Uberti to have the pin issue fixed? Will they turn me away because of the shortened barrel? Has anyone else had this problem before?

 

[pghrich]

I also have a loose pin in my pietta civilian, easy fix is to peen the hole at the frame with a small punch drive the pin in with a brass hammer, should never come out again, thats what i did but i also am careful everytime i remove the barrel to watch for it, i use a cylinder loading stand so i remove my barrel often, pghrich

 

[Tommygunn]

I had this problem on a Colt gun I had. Turning the pin about half way 'round seem to make it fit better.
Keep in mind these pins are fitting pins they really only "align" the barrel and don't really retain it.
Your locktite solution should have worked, IMO. There might be other metalworking materials that would work....just make sure you don't accidently wind up binding the barrel to the frame of the gun!

EDIT:
pghrich had a good idea I think.

 

[mykeal]

Can I send this to Uberti to have the pin issue fixed?

No. Uberti does not repair guns, modified or otherwise.

 

[unknwn]

Loc-tite explained-and a MUCH different formulation

Loc-tite thread locking compounds need absolute clean AND -zero- oxygen to function properly. My bet is that there was a contamination by oil in the mating surfaces. The setting of a pin like you describe is also not an optimum usage of the product.
Peening the hole to tighten things up sounds like a good direction for starters.
You can look for a Loc-tite product named QuickMetal which is intended to repair broken keyways, splining, and peg holes and the like. Expensive (sometimes you can find it in real little tubes though), but the stuff works like gangbusters.

 

[BCRider]

You simply didn't de-grease the hole and the pin well enough. The red loctite should have done the trick.

Clean it out and try again. And this time be sure it's fully degreased and that you get a light but even coating through the whole hole.

In fact you MAY need to file a very small flat on half the pin to give the air and excess Loctite an escape route if the pin is a close fit.

 

[Pancho]

2nd. BCRider. I had the same problem with a Uberti 62 Colt Police some time ago and understood that loctite needed complete cleanliness. I located a can of starting fluid (ether) that had an actuator button that would take one of those red tubes. To make sure that the starting fluid didn't have any additives I squirted some on a clean mirror and let it evaporate making sure there was no residue left. I inserted the tube to the base of the hole and gave it a gentle, long squirt of ether to make sure it was degreased. Worked for me. Brake clean would probably work as well.