Ruger's Conversion Kit

Here's a "package" that was sent on May 10, 1975 to a very prominent Ruger Collector in PA.






What I find Most Interesting is the last page, a Customer Classification Sheet that asks for specific info about the OM Revolver's Condition prior to being returned to SR&Co.

The "package" also contained a mailing label and, of course, a shipping container.

flatgate

Wow, that 1975 date is sure interesting. I didn't think the conversion program kicked off until a few years after that.

Neat find!

Now thats a different set of paperwork that I've never seen a copy of! Cool find!

Mr. Fischer unloaded a ton of stuff on me several years ago. He couldn't afford a "rent increase" at his apartment in Casper and was packing up and moving to west central WY. He called me and said "come get this stuff".....

He'd "seen the light" and was moving off of his Ruger stuff and has shifted over to collecting "Wyoming Made" revolvers.

flatgate

Flatgate...I gotta think that envelope postmark date does not match up with the printed materials. Ruger didn't even get the conversion lockwork patented until the 1980's. The earliest conversion kit instruction manual also has a date of March 1982.
Chad

Dougan's book shows the patent for the Conversion Kit being dated in 1984. His final chapter covers the development of the New Models along with the Conversion Kits.

Chet15,

Good eye! It's very possible the papers in the envelope were NOT shipped in the envelope. I'll see if I can find something that will "date" the paperwork.

Thanks for the data, Ale.........

flatgate

PS I'm still blown away by the "last sheet" in this package......

flatgate said:

Chet15,

PS I'm still blown away by the "last sheet" in this package......

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Yeah, I remember that, but think it might have only come with the earliest conversion kit paperwork...you know, the paperwork you received with your shipping box before shipping the gun back.
Chad

I sent a Single-Six in for some repair work in the early 1990's, and received a similar "release form" to be filled out and signed and included with the gun when I shipped it off.

Don't remember all the details, but among other things it OK'd the installation of the "kit", without which no other work would be performed. Yes, I got my original parts back.