That Uberti

Cleaning revolvers today, the Uberti displayed a fault as I re-assembled the cylinder into the frame.  The bolt wouldn't come up.  Well, hell.

Last month at the Texas shoot, I talked with my cousin, Gentleman George.  He has several Ubertis and he's become fairly adept at working on them.  He gave me a few tips and I listened carefully.  Today, when that darned bolt wouldn't come up and lock the cylinder, I decided to take it apart and find the problem, and do a little polishing.  George had told me that the revolvers are fairly simple devices, and gave me a tip about the cylinder hand spring.

I remembered that John Taylor had written an excellent tutorial on the Uberti, so I went online to look at it.  Armed with the knowledge of both Taylor and Gentleman George, I went out to the bench.I have to admit that I had some trepidation, and I've gone wrong with handgun projects before.  However, in just a few minutes, I had the revolver apart.  Found a burr on the bolt and judiciously polished both sides.  While I had the little gun apart, I applied Gentleman George's trick with the cylinder hand spring.  Nothing to it actually.  The new Uberti has the cylinder hand spring captured by a small threaded plug.  I knew with my old eyes, I'd never get that tiny plug back in the hole, so I simply took it out, stretched the spring a tiny bit, and reassembled without the plug.  The only real *&^% moments came as I was re-installing the grip frame.  For some reason, I didn't have it lined up properly and the screws wouldn't start.  Once I re-aligned, everything went back together easy-peasy.

I don't know why I was afraid of it.  They're fairly simple, straight-forward devices.  Thanks, George!