Big frame Webley parts?
- Thread starter Klunk
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The cylinder catches are notorious for breaking on Webleys. I have one that is broken, and have heard of many others being broken as well.
Parts for Webleys seem to be unavailable, period.
Your best bet is to remake it if you still have the parts of the spring, or to look at photos online and play with the design until you get it working again.
Parts for Webleys seem to be unavailable, period.
Your best bet is to remake it if you still have the parts of the spring, or to look at photos online and play with the design until you get it working again.
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
www.apexgunparts.com
Or are you referring to the V spring on the side of the frame? Brownells has them for both the .38 and the .455. There is also a company that makes them but have forgotten the website
Or are you referring to the V spring on the side of the frame? Brownells has them for both the .38 and the .455. There is also a company that makes them but have forgotten the website
Don't hang the old girl up just yet.
If you can't source the correct part, or make one, there is a mod that you can do to keep the gun in service.
Go to Princess Auto and get one of their $6 bags of 100 coil springs. They are all types, mixed: light, medium, heavy, compression, extension and torsion, and all in relatively small sizes.
You can clip one of the short, fairly heavy compression ones in half, wedge it in where it is to go and cement it in place with epoxy. Horrid, I know, but it will work.
A better fix, using the same spring, is to drill a tiny hole into the back side of the recoil shield, just INTO it but not all the way through. BEND to 90 degrees the END of one of the medium-heavy compression springs so that the tip of the spring will insert into this cavity: you now have a solid point of contact with the frame of the gun. Clip the spring to about 3 turns and CLOSE it, then use your Dremel to face it off perfectly flat. Now a single drop of epoxy will hold it against the forward-moving face of the latch. Result: one working revolver.
Horrid, I know, but it works.
Hope this helps.
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If you can't source the correct part, or make one, there is a mod that you can do to keep the gun in service.
Go to Princess Auto and get one of their $6 bags of 100 coil springs. They are all types, mixed: light, medium, heavy, compression, extension and torsion, and all in relatively small sizes.
You can clip one of the short, fairly heavy compression ones in half, wedge it in where it is to go and cement it in place with epoxy. Horrid, I know, but it will work.
A better fix, using the same spring, is to drill a tiny hole into the back side of the recoil shield, just INTO it but not all the way through. BEND to 90 degrees the END of one of the medium-heavy compression springs so that the tip of the spring will insert into this cavity: you now have a solid point of contact with the frame of the gun. Clip the spring to about 3 turns and CLOSE it, then use your Dremel to face it off perfectly flat. Now a single drop of epoxy will hold it against the forward-moving face of the latch. Result: one working revolver.
Horrid, I know, but it works.
Hope this helps.
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