Whoa Indian Joe - "make a new cylinder"?. I have one of these and its stayin just the way it is - it might get a pettifogger workover one day - but not a conversion. Trade it off for one in 32 and convert that ? That little colt would make a dead cool 22 - but too easy and you could buy a ruger bearcat for half the cost. If you make a new cylinder rather than bore out the old one - most of these capguns you can squeeze an extra twenty thou or so of cylinder wall - take a little out of the frame - tighten the tolerances up - you be surprised what can be doneĭid a remmy once to 44/40 and found enough extra cylinder diameter that I ended up stepping the barrel threads 50 thou to get it back in line I know these conversions were done for black powder cartridges, but I wonder if there were safety issues with some of these conversions, especially those done on the small frame models. The rear portion of the cylinder wall looks dangerously thin to me. I found this photo of what looks like a Mason-Richards, Colt factory conversion of a Pocket Navy. I know there's lots of machine shop talent on this forum so I guess I posted my original comment to see if anyone ever attempted a conversion like this.
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