4th Generation Colt

I took the gun apart to see if I could clean it up a bit. The springs are heavy and things needed smoothed out a bit.

The spring on the hand (pawl) needed tuning. It was dragging heavily when you rotated the cylinder at half cock.

What it should look like.

The other problem was, with the cylinder removed, if you cocked the hammer you could not get the hammer to fall unless you reached in and push the hand back into the recess. It was binding on the slot that was not milled out enough. It did not interfere as long as the cylinder was in the gun. But it wasn't right.

I used jewlers files and a small grinding stone to remove the metal to keep the hand from binding. It works fine now.

I installed a Heine trigger/bolt spring.

The hammer spring is quite heavy. I will probably get a lighter spring in the future. An easy fix for now is a leather washer under the spring. It reduces the power a little and provides more flexing of the spring, reducing breakage ... not that they break that often.

The trigger pull is still heavier than I like so I will need to work on that in the future.