NWMP .456 1882 Enfield Revolver
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It's in .476.
There are no parts...you'd have to buy another one to get any.
I see several parts missing from your pics. The parts are not simple.
Wow...sad to see.
There is another board member who has one that was made into a lamp...maybe you two should talk.
There are no parts...you'd have to buy another one to get any.
I see several parts missing from your pics. The parts are not simple.
Wow...sad to see.
There is another board member who has one that was made into a lamp...maybe you two should talk.
.476 enfield is the cartridge it was made for, but the .476" measurement is actually the OD of the cartridge case and not the bore size on that cartridge. The bore size has been .455" to .457" on the .476 enfield revolvers I have slugged.
I have two .476 enfield chambered revolvers. .45 Schofield brass loaded with soft cast .455 flat base or hollow base bullets shoots very well.
Put a WTB ad on Gunbroker Forums (not the Gunbroker auction site). I have found some rare parts by posting on that forum.
I have two .476 enfield chambered revolvers. .45 Schofield brass loaded with soft cast .455 flat base or hollow base bullets shoots very well.
Put a WTB ad on Gunbroker Forums (not the Gunbroker auction site). I have found some rare parts by posting on that forum.
Poor thing has been painted!
Get the grips off, take her apart and start cleaning it carefully, using solvents and paintstripper where necessary on the metal parts. Do not use any hard metal object for cleaning, especially ones with sharp points. That has already been done to this piece. As well, it looks as if someone has used sandpaper on it.... and that is a terrible no-no!
Original finish seems pretty much GONE, but you can clean it with EXTRA FINE steel wool (NOTHING coarser!!!!) and then oil it without wrecking what metal surface is there. Be VERY careful NOT to polish this one.
There are places in England which make some parts for these, but you would have to head to one of the British fora to find them.
Nice old piece; she deserves to roar again.
Hope this helps.
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Get the grips off, take her apart and start cleaning it carefully, using solvents and paintstripper where necessary on the metal parts. Do not use any hard metal object for cleaning, especially ones with sharp points. That has already been done to this piece. As well, it looks as if someone has used sandpaper on it.... and that is a terrible no-no!
Original finish seems pretty much GONE, but you can clean it with EXTRA FINE steel wool (NOTHING coarser!!!!) and then oil it without wrecking what metal surface is there. Be VERY careful NOT to polish this one.
There are places in England which make some parts for these, but you would have to head to one of the British fora to find them.
Nice old piece; she deserves to roar again.
Hope this helps.
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There is a rather extensive article on the "Old Ugly" in the "Mans at Arms for the Gun and Sword Collector" Vol. 34, No.3, June 2012. Has the history and schematic drawings. That might help. The good news is that (in my opinion) there is not much you could do to detract from the value of this piece. In the way of repair anyway. Unless you took it to the chop saw.
Best of luck to you.
Best of luck to you.
Don't knock the old girl TOO much, guys.
For one thing, she is still a long way from being unrestorable.
For another, she's a helluvva lot better than NO .476 Enfield, which is what I have.... as do most of us!
If something like this turned up at a reasonable (affordable to me, that is) price, I would be all over it in a flash.
We tend sometimes to get spoiled by the pristine ones and ignore the beat-up ones. Yet, when you look at it carefully, which one MADE more history: the one that sat in a drawer..... or the one that served through 40 HARD frontier years?
STILL a nice old piece.
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For one thing, she is still a long way from being unrestorable.
For another, she's a helluvva lot better than NO .476 Enfield, which is what I have.... as do most of us!
If something like this turned up at a reasonable (affordable to me, that is) price, I would be all over it in a flash.
We tend sometimes to get spoiled by the pristine ones and ignore the beat-up ones. Yet, when you look at it carefully, which one MADE more history: the one that sat in a drawer..... or the one that served through 40 HARD frontier years?
STILL a nice old piece.
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Couldn't agree more - just my 0.04. Interesting piece, I like it!
How common was it to paint guns? Once the original finish wore off, applying paint to the bare metal surfaces would have been an easy and fairly effective way to protect the metal from corrosion. Doing so would not require much in the way of material or technology.
The British also applied black paint to guns. Even in WW II, the British painted parts of old Webley revolvers.
After doing a thorough cleaning, a simple way to protect the gun would be to do what someone obviously did before - apply black paint. I'm not recommending this but just throwing it out there as an option.
The British also applied black paint to guns. Even in WW II, the British painted parts of old Webley revolvers.
After doing a thorough cleaning, a simple way to protect the gun would be to do what someone obviously did before - apply black paint. I'm not recommending this but just throwing it out there as an option.
