Bought the revolver on sale with no barrel. Gunborker had a 2" for not a lot & it was in great shape when it showed up here. My concerns were that the frame would be sprung from some bonehead armorer not using a fixture, but it was straight as could be. I was also concerned the threads wouldn't be compatible - no worries there, either.
Of course, it needed to be hand fitted to line up right. It came up about 1/3 turn short of the front sight lining up Top Dead Center. The cure for that? Please pass the large Mill Bastage file.
As always, you can take it off, but you can't put it back, so I did the cut & try bit. File, file, file - put the barrel on... take it back off and file again. It didn't take all that much to get it lined up just right. Then it was adjust the barrel/cylinder gap. That didn't take much, either. Got it to an eyeball .003" with same said Mill Bastage file.
I was set to cut the forcing cone again but will wait until I do the test fire for that.
Kinda hard to see, but this is the gap from the barrel not lining up right.
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After mucho CAREFUL filing, I had it this close. Next try was dead nutz on.
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There! Close enough for RR work!
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The finished product cleaned and ready to test fire.
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This was like so many of these projects - once you jump in, there's no going back. But I'm happy with it. I have a decent 2" model 10 for actual hundreds less than I saw them on Gunborker. Now to score a set of decent grips!
SW