carterbeauford
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Can anyone advise how the cylinder goes back on? Mine more or less fell right off the frame. There is a spring inside the frame, that's all I can see. Between this and my reloads, I'm havin' a bad day :banghead:
Taurus 65, cylinder fell off
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MCgunner
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??? "Fell off?" Did the retaining screw work itself out? I had that happen on a 1917 Smith and Wesson. It retains the cylinder crane. If it did, get another screw from a gunsmith and loctite it in place. It's the forward most screw on the side plate under the cylinder and above the trigger.
carterbeauford
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I see what you mean with the retaining screw, it was tight before I opened the gun up. I stuck the cylinder back in, put it back together, but the screw will not hold the cylinder in place.
dawei
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It would appear to me that you're missing the "Cylinder Stop Plunger w/ Spring" (probably the spring). See diagram on page #20 here: http://www.taurususa.com/pdf/manual_revolver.pdf
carterbeauford
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^ I have the plunger and spring, just can't get it to stay in. Time to take advantage of the lifetime repair policy. The gun needs a new ejector rod anyways, might as well send it in.
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Gaucho Gringo
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If you need their toll free number it is 1-800-327-3776.
carterbeauford
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Thank you sir, I sent it back today.
Vern Humphrey
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Somebody ought to do a count on all the revolver failures like this -- it would be interesting to hold up to the "revolvers are more reliable than automatics" crowd.
The problem is with a Taurus revolver, NOT with all revolvers. To take your logic a step further, I guess you could have used RG revolvers to really prove your point!
However, the logic of the point is flawed.
I've shot handgun matches, both auto and wheelgun, and sent tens of thousands of bullets downrange for many years . . . and the facts are quite clear to me . . .
AUTOS CHOKE MORE OFTEN, BY A HUGE MARGIN . . . VS. REVOLVERS.
Most of the chokes have been to cheaper, 2nd tier guns, shot by neophite competitors who quickly learned on the spot that the money they saved simply allowed them to be placed at a losing advantage in a match. However, everyone goes home after getting their butt kicked on the range . . . but in the real world if one doesn't finish first in a gun fight, they are dead.
Other than that, the other chokes have been on the high dollar raceguns (all automatics) that have been built tighter than a gnat's butt. The tighter one builds an automatic for accuracy reasons . . . the less reliable it is. There again, another reason to trust one's life to a wheelgun . . . for they have generally better accuracy AND reliability!
The least chokes come from the S&W wheelguns. The only lock up I've ever seen was a S&W .357 . . . after a loose primer, reloaded too, too many times, backed out under recoil.
AS FAR AS TAURUS PRODUCTS ARE CONCERNED . . .
They are fine, for the money, but I've seen stuff like this before from that brand at the range . . . but more often from their automatics. However, one guy brought one revolver and one auto to the range one day. The front sight flew off his beloved Taurus auto . . . and the cylinder came loose on the wheelgun.
In any event, I've learned from what I saw, not to trust my life to anything but a super-reliable gun. IMHO and experience, this rules out the Taurus products for ME.
T.
denfoote
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There was a wee spring in there.
I almost lost it when my crane came off on my 605!!
I learned then that blue Loc-Tite was my friend!!
I cemented that screw down and have not had any trouble with it since!
I almost lost it when my crane came off on my 605!!
I learned then that blue Loc-Tite was my friend!!
I cemented that screw down and have not had any trouble with it since!
Vern Humphrey
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Every failure of a handgun is a failure of that handgun.
But if you keep track, you run into all sorts of revolver failures -- we had several entried on Ruger SP 101s with broken transfer bars, for example. And lots of failures due to crud under the ejector star. Plus mystry failures of guns that tie up after a few rounds.
Confederate
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It's not too fair to let a third-rate company like Taurus represent revolvers. They've been the up and coming gun company that just can't seem to up and come. Their guns, like those of Charter Arms, always seem to catch, bind, or have parts fall off them. Smiths, in the past, had some problems with ejector rods unscrewing and the Ruger Security- and Speed-Sixes...well...when they have a problem I'll post it here. They've only been around thirty years or so.
And modern Smith & Wessons are obscenely good. True, they lack the looks of their predecessors, but they're making some good guns, and some of them are automatics.
And modern Smith & Wessons are obscenely good. True, they lack the looks of their predecessors, but they're making some good guns, and some of them are automatics.
Vern Humphrey
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And yet we will let anyone represent M1911s, for example. Just cruise these forums long enough and you will find plenty of examples of revolvers packing it in -- and as I pointed out, we had a series of Ruger SP 101s that broke their transfer bars.
The Air Force started issuing Smith and Wesson .38 Special revolvers in Viet Nam -- so, of course, Army aviators had to have them, too. I've seen too many busted and out of action S&Ws to count.
carterbeauford
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I must have missed the part where I was bashing Taurus and asking the opinions of those who wanted to join me.
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