ROA questions.

[Rachen]

Question for ROA owners.

I have been shooting my ROA for quite a while now, and last night, when I was disassembling the gun for a bit of thorough cleaning, I realized that the pawl of the revolver bore a tiny little scratch on the surface that contacts the cylinder to revolve it around. Wasn't deep but noticeable. When illuminated with a flashlight, the scratch looks like a little valley. I think this is normal wear and tear, but is that always present in ROAs and single action revolvers?

I've fired about 100 shots out of it and does anybody here also observe the same phenomenon with the ROA, or any other SA revolver when a certain number of rounds have been fired through it?

I have a number of extra pawls on hand to repair a situation if necessary, but is this normal associated with SA revolvers, since the pawl, or "hand" is a high tension part, and erosion and wear is almost unavoidable.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Shawnee]

Hi Rachen...


It's pretty common. It's pretty much a non-issue unless it's really severe.

 

[mykeal]

Yep. Pretty common. Many folks call it a 'cylinder ring'. Happens for many reasons, not all of which can be corrected or controlled.

 

[Macmac]

It is common for the cylinder lock, which rises from the frame under the cylinder to mark a ring in the finish.

The hand is what turns the cylinder.

Why do you have a few extras? To use them and any extra hands you may have, you should be well versed in "timing".

 

[Rachen]

Thanks a lot guys. I also have a Uberti Remington which I use as my daily "work" gun, besides the LeMat. Plenty of parts on hand, you should be self sufficient until you are familiar with these parts enough to start making your own. Right now, I am to the point at which I couldn't look at a safety pin, or bobby pin in a pharmacy and not think about how these parts could be used to field-repair an SAA.

 

[Rachen]

Mykeal, actually the part was the hand of the ROA, it bore a faint scratch from the tension of turning the heavy cylinder. The "cylinder ring" is present on an older model Uberti Rem. that I owned since I was 10 years old. But the gun still works like a charm and I only replaced a handspring once in all the 10-11 odd years of using it. My new Uberti Rem. is also great, no cylinder rings yet but I can expect that to happen after a certain amount of service.

But the scratch on the hand of the ROA kind of puzzled me a bit, although the LeMat and the older Uberti also bore scratches from where the hand surface contacted the cylinder.