Buddy has a SBH Hunter. The 'cyl pin' comes out about 1/2" or so after 3-4 rounds, making it DANGerous. Finally, after many years, he found it has a stronger (the Fix supposedly) spring in the 'cyl-pin release pin' or whatever that other small spring loaded pin is called. Still, the cyl-rod comes loose after 3-4 rnds. I heard/read that Ruger fixed this with a shoulder screw, ie, no spring in that small 'release pin'. That means the relase pin is not spring loaded anymore - good!
Is this true ?
Plus, here's what I did to fix it...if you take BOTH of those little (1/4" ?) springs and put them on that spring-loaded pin, screw it together, then that pin acts just like a should screw, which means the cyl-pin won't come out, at all anymore w/o taking the small screw out.
The cause of this 'issue' is that the BH designers used TWO round surfaces to try and hold the cyl-pin in...won't work. two round surfaces won't hold a 'small-time-period/large force from firing. They could have made the cyl-pin with a FLAT on the R side of that particular cutout area so it woudl have one flat and one round surface. That may have held fine. Better would have been 2 flat surfaces to hold the cyl-pin in but that would mean that the holes would have had to have been square instaed of round, not an ez thing to do.
So, is there a 'shoulder-screw' pin, that has no springs, from Ruger ?
Is this true ?
Plus, here's what I did to fix it...if you take BOTH of those little (1/4" ?) springs and put them on that spring-loaded pin, screw it together, then that pin acts just like a should screw, which means the cyl-pin won't come out, at all anymore w/o taking the small screw out.
The cause of this 'issue' is that the BH designers used TWO round surfaces to try and hold the cyl-pin in...won't work. two round surfaces won't hold a 'small-time-period/large force from firing. They could have made the cyl-pin with a FLAT on the R side of that particular cutout area so it woudl have one flat and one round surface. That may have held fine. Better would have been 2 flat surfaces to hold the cyl-pin in but that would mean that the holes would have had to have been square instaed of round, not an ez thing to do.
So, is there a 'shoulder-screw' pin, that has no springs, from Ruger ?