H&R 922 age of revolver

[warthog475]

Like the thread I posted before. I have a...
Harrington & Richardson H&R 922 revolver that I am looking for parts.
6" octagon barrel
9 shot .22 cal cylinder
Flat main spring

I am looking for the age or year it was built. The serial # is 1486XX I am told that there is a letter in the serial#, always the first number. So I am assuming it is a L. The number is stamped clean so I want to know if what I have found online and asked around about the year is true or reasonably close...
H&R 922 - 1931 DIFFERENCE: new grip shape (saw handle shape eliminated) serial number range 144000*-160000*(estimate)
H&R discontinue the octagon barrel on the model 922 in 1938.
Now, there is also a number stamped on the back of the cylinder #693, does that mean anything ?
I am looking for another cylinder. I have tried Bob's Gun Shop, and Numrich.

Thanks for the help

 

[gunzik]

You may have a problem.

First, of course, is that these revolvers are pretty near worthless.

I have owned 4 (four) H&R 922 revolvers, and not one cylinder was interchangeable. None of them had an octagonal barrel, they were all reasonably recent manufacture. The barrel from one wasn't indexed in the next (front sight wound up at about 3 o'clock) and some small parts were also different. These are not super-quality firearms, and even much higher-priced guns have parts issues.

One 922 cylinder I have has an ejector star and will eject all the empties with one push of the cylinder pin (when you remove the pin, pull the cylinder, and then push the cylinder back in to reach the star). The next 922 cylinder, a few thousand serial numbers later, has no ejector star. You have to push each empty out individually. And both cylinders are slightly different lengths, both gaps in the frame are slightly different, etc.

I have some parts, but I won't even bother to offer them to you, since they probably won't fit your gun any better than they fit mine. These guns are very frustrating to work on, if I haven't made myself clear yet, and I'd recommend spending your time on almost anything else.

Please don't tell us it's a family heirloom. We'll just be sad about how unfortunate your family is.

 

[warthog475]

H&R 922 trigger spring help

@gunzik. Well, I have added a new lever and spring assembly and that tightened it up makes the cylinder line up perfect, ( ran a bore tool down and had no hang ups) The only issue I now have is the trigger spring. On top of the trigger assembly has the cylinder stop machined in the top of the trigger. With no room for a trigger spring. There wasn't a trigger spring when I dismantled the pistol. The top of the trigger guard is flat with a small lip at the edge. So there is no way a coil spring would work. (where the cylinder stop assembly would sit) Any helpful hints on a type of main spring would be nice.