OM Conversion to TB mark

[Rclark]

Where and what does the mark look like on an OM converted to use the TB?
Just want to confirm for my gunsmith who didn't know about the mark that I think should be there.

Thanks!

 

[contender]

You have to pull the grip frame off & look at the bottom of the main frame. It's hidden between the two & requires the removal of the grip frame.

 

[Rclark]

What is the mark? I seem to recall an 'R' stamp or scratch?

 

[Colonel Daddy]

"R" stamp, unless someone forgot to stamp it.

 

[Rclark]

Thanks that is what I though but wanted to be sure.

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

Here you go.

 

[Big Rack]

What happens to the frame when a 3 screw is updated?

 

[Wyandot Jim]

What happens to the frame when a 3 screw is updated?

Other than the R being added not a thing is done to the frame.
I had a 357 that was converted but not marked.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Attention Chet15 . . .

Any data on when they started stamping the "R" on converted Old Models?

 

[wavehopr]

I had a 357 that was converted but not marked.

I have one (.357) now that's not marked. I sent it back and it got converted but not marked. Luckily, they sent all the parts back and I un-converted it.

 

[rugerguy]

Yessir, just something simple and easy to show the "common man", when or if it is presented as "evidence" in a court to show that the factory DID indeed "remove & replace" the OM lockwork to make the gun "safer" to use by any "uncommon, or ignorant" gun handler ( shooter) 8) :roll: :wink:
(transfer of LIABILITY....) :?:

 

[xtratoy]

They forgot to "transfer liability" on my Single Six and my Blackhawk 41 Mag.

 

[chet15]

Attention Chet15 . . .

Any data on when they started stamping the "R" on converted Old Models?

All of the guns sent back to have the conversion done to them were supposed to be marked. The "R" is the common marking. But right after the program started we sent a Single-Six in right away to have the conversion done, to see what we'd get back. And that Single-Six is still the only one I've ever heard of that got a stamping of a miniature Ruger eagle logo. Everything after that had the "R" stamp.

Just thinking about it a little more, I would bet that Ruger always felt they needed to mark every converted gun with something...because it would be a liability to them if the gun had been converted back to original parts and it wasn't marked (i.e. somebody ignorant of proper gun handling shooting themselves in the leg and claiming the gun went off...then suing the company). Somehow, for their own legal reasons, every gun would have needed to be marked. Can't say if there weren't some that the employee mistakenly didn't stamp, as that could certainly happen. But letting a converted gun get out of the factory without a mark would not be Ruger's intention.
Chet15