Paperweight found
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Hondo44
Hawkeye
Cool. Was it just a come-on?
Did it find its way home with you?
And if it did, what was the tariff and do you have a gun that it fits so you can check for function?
I've found a few paperweights like that. Actually more than I have stacks of paper.
I have a Colt SAA frame seemingly fully machined on the right side, but just a block of steel on the left side with a cylinder window cut out of it.
Did it find its way home with you?
And if it did, what was the tariff and do you have a gun that it fits so you can check for function?
I've found a few paperweights like that. Actually more than I have stacks of paper.
I have a Colt SAA frame seemingly fully machined on the right side, but just a block of steel on the left side with a cylinder window cut out of it.
I like it.
mount it on a small flat block of wood, with a self tapping screw through the bottom and it would make a fine pen holder or a small flag holder even, we used to make them with old scrap cylinders from junk guns over the yers wish I had taken pictures of them BACK THEN, even used cut up scrapped revolvers form the PD "scrapped' GUNS ,( BUY BACKS THEY CUT UP) never wasted any of them old "junk" parts your cylinder looks pretty nice, better care with mounting it to the wooden base needed......
It was just a joke
Yes I bought it, and in all of the many years I've been going to gun shows I've seen a lot of cylinders (none I could use) but never a Bisley much less one in stainless / .45 Colt and it looks to be new!
The seller opined that it may have been taken from convertible and the owner never shot .45 Colt and figured to get some cash back.
I have a few Ruger .45's to try it out in.
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I made this one, drilled a hole for an om trigger spring/plunger so when it was rotated sounded like the cylinder locking in place.mount it on a small flat block of wood, with a self tapping screw through the bottom and it would make a fine pen holder or a small flag holder even, we used to make them with old scrap cylinders from junk guns over the yers wish I had taken pictures of them BACK THEN, even used cut up scrapped revolvers form the PD "scrapped' GUNS ,( BUY BACKS THEY CUT UP) never wasted any of them old "junk" parts your cylinder looks pretty nice, better care with mounting it to the wooden base needed......
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contender
Ruger Guru
Nice find!!! I've managed to find a few Ruger cylinders at guns shows over the years.
But a real pencil holder that I wanted,, but never received,, was a Freedom Arms scrapped cylinder that FlatGate had gotten. He mailed it to me,, along with an empty original Ruger brass g/f box. I got a "Damaged package & items may be missing" package from the USPS. Somewhere out there,, is a cylinder,, that failed inspections at FA,, that was to be used as a pencil holder,, but who knows where,,,,,,,,????
But a real pencil holder that I wanted,, but never received,, was a Freedom Arms scrapped cylinder that FlatGate had gotten. He mailed it to me,, along with an empty original Ruger brass g/f box. I got a "Damaged package & items may be missing" package from the USPS. Somewhere out there,, is a cylinder,, that failed inspections at FA,, that was to be used as a pencil holder,, but who knows where,,,,,,,,????
That's a terrible loss, Contender. Since it was from FlatGate.
I have a love/hate relationship with USPS. Love the convivence. Where else can you hand someone an envelope with a forever stamp and get it delivered coast to coast? But I have had my frustrations with them as well. I have opened 4 lost parcel investigations in the last year. One took almost 2 months to be delivered, looked like it had been run over by a truck numerous times.
I have a love/hate relationship with USPS. Love the convivence. Where else can you hand someone an envelope with a forever stamp and get it delivered coast to coast? But I have had my frustrations with them as well. I have opened 4 lost parcel investigations in the last year. One took almost 2 months to be delivered, looked like it had been run over by a truck numerous times.
Nice find I like it . I ordered a bunch of stickers patches from ruger 250 anniversary stuff getting some for karma giveaway Christmas time
Hondo44
Hawkeye
Now that's the cleverest mounting I've seen! Great idea.
Thanks Hondo. I used a New Model base pin, cut the tip off, the hole for the plunger/spring is right size to drill and tap for a 6x32 machine screw. Used a washer to let the cylinder rotate freely, counter sunk a headed screw and put self-adhesive felt on the bottom to keep it from scratching the desk. The idea was mostly from Randyzzz. The cylinder was from a NM .41 parts kit. Had a chip out of a couple of the ratchets, could not sell it with good conscience.
Hondo44
Hawkeye
My paper weight the way it came: color case hardened.
Backside
As used:
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Has it been converted??!!
xTopGun
Buckeye
I'd reshape the base into a grip . . . .mount it on a small flat block of wood, with a self tapping screw through the bottom and it would make a fine pen holder or a small flag holder even, we used to make them with old scrap cylinders from junk guns over the yers wish I had taken pictures of them BACK THEN, even used cut up scrapped revolvers form the PD "scrapped' GUNS ,( BUY BACKS THEY CUT UP) never wasted any of them old "junk" parts your cylinder looks pretty nice, better care with mounting it to the wooden base needed......
