SAA Help

[summerhelp]

I have a Model P that I took apart last night. After I put it back together the cylinder will spin to easily when the gun is at half cock. I also noticed that i had a left over metal piece that is about 1/4 inch long and is shiny. I do not see this piece on any diagram of a SAA that i can find. After looking again my only guess for where the metal piece goes is behind the hand assembly there is a spring and the metal piece fits in the spring but that is just a guess. but with more pressure on the hand assembly i would thing that would take care of the cylinder spinning to easily.

 

[rcmodel]

??

There is nothing in a Colt SAA that sounds like that.

The hand spring fits in a slot in the bottom of the hand, and is held in place by friction mostly.

Perhaps you broke the spring off the hand where it sets in the slot?

http://www.peacemakerspecialists.com/parts3.html

rc

 

[Oyeboten]

Images?

 

[sonier]

it sounds like the hand spring broke, it should be a flat piece of metal very thin rectangular, it fits in the hand spring slot and this should keep tension and rotate the cylinder every time the hammer is pulled back.

 

[summerhelp]

When I disassembled the gun, the hand assembly did not have a flat spring attached to it. When I looked into the frame of the gun I could see a regular coil spring still in the frame. The coil spring has since fallen out of the frame and i have no idea how to get the spring back into place. As for the hand it is smooth with no slots in it for a spring to sit in. I would post pictures but my girlfriend is out of town with the camera.

The hand looks a little like 7c but doesn't have the indention on the back side.
http://http://www.cimarron-firearms.com/Parts/model-p.htm

 

[AZ_Rebel]

The piece that fell out may be the plunger for a coil type hand spring. To put it back in you need to take off the grip frame. there will be a hole over top of the left screw hole where the plunger, spring and set screw goes. Take out the set screw and the spring (there may be no set screw - just a spring.)
Assemble the rest of the gun including the hand. Then assemble the plunger (piece that fell out) and the spring and put it into the top hole on the left side so it bears on the hand. Put in the set screw and assemble the grip frame.

 

[Jim K]

Hi, AZ Rebel,

What you are describing sounds like a Ruger. I was unaware that Colt had gone to that system.

Jim

 

[AZ_Rebel]

Jim, the OP does not specify a Colt... only model P. In post #5 he has a exploded view of a Cimmaron model P that has the coil hand spring. I assume he has that make and not a Colt.

I have done a number of conversions on Black Powder Pistols to the coil springs to get rid of the "broken-hand-spring-problem" once and for all. Its not impossible that the OP has a SAA pistol converted.

summerhelp - what make of gun do you have?

 

[summerhelp]

It is a Cimarron Model P that I bought new about two months ago. This is the first time I have taken it apart aside from just taking out the cylinder.

 

[summerhelp]

AZ rebel thanks for the help.

 

[AZ_Rebel]

Did you get the hand plunger back in OK?

 

[Guncollector1982]

i order new springs and some odds and ends to tune my Cimmaron Model P from this link i recieved them fairly quick
http://www.cimarron-firearms.com/Parts/PartsOpener.htm

Anyways you prob already seen that site...but its a source for parts