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I was considering opening up the chambers in the cylinder of my 625 to ease loading with moonclips . Is this something I could do carefully with a stone or drillpress or is it something that I should have done by a gunsmith?
 
I'm not sure 'opening up the chambers' is advisable, even for a gunsmith.

Are you talking about machining the cylinder to accept moonclips? Or does it already accept moonclips, and you want to make the cylinders bigger?

Either way - I sure wouldn't be trying EITHER of those at home.
 
Thanks Repete,

Yes, that's what I meant Chamfering,I had that written down and but it didn't seem right for some reason. Just wanted to open up the 6 cylinders a bit to help with the moonclip reloads. I was thinking that if I had the cylinder chucked up solid and used a stone in the drill press making sure that every thing is lined up than I could take them down a smidgeon .But if you all think I need a smith than I should bow the the weight of the the group. Thx
 
shortround said:
Thanks Repete,

Yes, that's what I meant Chamfering,I had that written down and but it didn't seem right for some reason. Just wanted to open up the 6 cylinders a bit to help with the moonclip reloads. I was thinking that if I had the cylinder chucked up solid and used a stone in the drill press making sure that every thing is lined up than I could take them down a smidgeon .But if you all think I need a smith than I should bow the the weight of the the group. Thx
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How handy are you? It's not really a difficult operation. The tools are available from brownells and it's a 20 minute job, no power tools needed. If you aren't comfortable doing it though, find a good revolversmith and it should be around 70-90 $

I'm saving up to buy the tools to do my own.
 
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