What Are They from? ( Antique SA Cylinder) with video

I don't know if this helps but the none fluted cylinder in the 2nd video is definetely not from an Remington 1875, possibly a factory conversion cylinder from a model 1858. They came in 44, 46 rimfire and 44 & 45 centerfire.
 
That 44 Mag cylinder in the frist vid is from some modern SA gun of some sort there way to big a Dia to fit in any antique frames.

2nd Vid looks like a remington 1858 conversion cylinder in 44 remington.
Hard to say tho without haveing a gun to try it in but it does look older and has no chamber throats so id guess it fits in a 1858.
if you measure its dia i might be intrested in that one because i have a remy 1858 project gun.
 
2nd video looks like the conversion cyl for my new army Remington. Let me know when you are looking for a buyer. Might be cool to have a second.
 
dam. this looks cool, needs a new / mod done to the hammer.

Also whats up with that plate steel on the back of the the frame where the cylinder go/s in? is that part of the mod?



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That steel plate would be so there is a flat surface at the back end of the cartridge. Recoil plate, iirc the terminology. Yup. Part of the cartridge conversion. It has a hole for the firing pin, to cover the gap that the hammer used to pass through to reach the percussion cap/nipple.

Cheers
Trev
 
starpuss.....the last time you had cylinders available they found a good home,one of them fit on an 1849 Pocket Colt that I was working on. The original cylinder had damaged nipples and is in rough shape. The replacement has a really good stagecoach hold up scene and no serial number. Here is a picture of the gun with the "new" cylinder:
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Skinny 1950 said:
starpuss.....the last time you had cylinders available they found a good home,one of them fit on an 1849 Pocket Colt that I was working on. The original cylinder had damaged nipples and is in rough shape. The replacement has a really good stagecoach hold up scene and no serial number. Here is a picture of the gun with the "new" cylinder:
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Nice to sell it went to a good home.

How was the bore on the Cylinder when you cleaned it up? (i never cleaned it)
 
The bore looks brand new on all chambers,it looked like someone had dry fired it a lot with the timing off resulting in peening on both sides of the nipples. I ground the damaged areas off with a dremel grinder and now you can't even see the damage.
I am taking the gun to the range tomorrow for the black powder shoot should be a blast.:D
 
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