Newest arrival: NY-1 massaged by Sand Burr's Denny Reichard

[PumpGunGuy]

This is the medicine for a fixed-sight revolver that doesn't shoot to POA. It's not a pretty thing to witness, but it works just fine. :^)

Please excuse my ignorance, but how are the items used to change POA

Thanks

[PumpGunGuy]

This is the medicine for a fixed-sight revolver that doesn't shoot to POA. It's not a pretty thing to witness, but it works just fine. :^)

Please excuse my ignorance, but how are these used to change POI?

Thanks

[HCM]

Babbit bars. http://www.brownells.com/userdocs/mi...0722010pdf.pdf

If I recall correctly they are made of lead and can be used for adjusting windage on Smith & Wesson fixed sight revolvers and I believe for knocking loose tightly fitted side plates during disassembly. Hopefully, one of the LSP's will chime in with a more detailed answer.

[41magfan]

You use them to repeatedly strike the barrel with enough force to bend it in the right direction.

[David Armstrong]

A long time ago I was the counterman/service writer at Cheshire & Perez in Monrovia, CA. They were a S&W distributor and warranty service center. We would not allow the customer to watch the gunsmiths "do their thing" . I think it was to prevent heart attacks and screaming fits.

Yes. When I went through the S&W revolver armorers course I brought a 36 for them to look at that I was having some trouble with. the cylinder was a little out of whack. The instructor turns around, digs in a box, then turns back around and started beating on my gun with the babbit. I wasn't sure if I should scream, hit him, or just pass out. Fortunately I just froze. Gun worked quite well after that!

[PumpGunGuy]

Thanks for the education.

I think I would have passed out.

[Totem Polar]

^^^Law, sausage, and now add "revolver smithing" to the list.

[Wayne Dobbs]

That's why if you were going to "adjust" a gun, you had the student/owner go away while the treatment was delivered.

[Lex Luthier]

This is about as necro-posting as I have ever done in 20+ years of Internet presence, but I have watched a good armorer (then Sr Deputy George Knox, San Francisco Sheriff's Department, circa 1988) adjust a fixed-sight pinned barrel S & W that needed windage work.
He had a sick grin on the whole time, and asked me to not speak of what I'd seen. Now that he's likely long-retired, I can open my yap.

Good Lord, but I would enjoy and properly employ a 3" barreled round butt model 64 NY-1.

RIP, Denny.

[Totem Polar]

Well, if you’re going to reanimate a thread this far dead, at least you picked one with killer wheelie pics.