I was disassembling my Spiller and Burr for a complete cleaning a couple of days ago and noticed that the hammer, while it has an axle for the "wheel" that rolls against the mainspring, does not actually have the little wheel/roller.
Is it supposed to?
Steve
From this schematic from Taylor's, it looks like it should have the wheel.
Does anyone know Pietta customer service contact info?
Steve
I have sent this email to: info@pietta.it
Hello,
In December of 2017 I purchased a Pietta Spiller and Burr revolver through
Cabela's.
Yesterday I was doing a complete disassembly and cleaning when I noticed
that there is no "roller wheel" on the hammer. The pin, or axle, is
there, but there is no roller.
Picture: https://i.imgur.com/yjYZ585.jpg
Per this schematic from Taylor's: https://i.imgur.com/8EpaxWo.png
The hammer should have a roller (item #29).
From the wear marks on the mainspring, I do not think the roller was ever
installed.
Can Pietta please send me a new hammer assembly with the roller?
My address is:
(redacted)
Thank you,
P.S. When I received this revolver I also noticed that the barrel was
over-rotated in the frame by perhaps 1-2 degrees, resulting in the flat of
the top of the barrel not being parallel with the top of the frame.
Consequently, the front sight was also canted over by that amount. I
fixed this by grasping the barrel in a padded vice and, with a block of
wood through the pistol frame, backed the barrel off a small amount until
it was true. This did not appreciably affect the barrel-to-cylinder
clearance. I thought you might want to know about that quality issue with
the Spiller and Burr also.
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