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Spotted Bull

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Basket Case #2
« on: March 04, 2012, 05:37:06 PM »
Here is #2. Smaller caliber and nicely engraved. As you may be able to see in the picture, there is a cylinder that is still loaded and capped, so the first thing I am going to do it get some oil in there to neutralize the powder. No wording stamped on it that I can see except for the numbers shown in the pic. This little guy is the one I really wanna get back in order and then buy it from the young man they belong to.





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Offline greyhunter

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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2012, 07:50:05 PM »
PB Blaster the whole pistol, then wait a few hours, then push the wedge out and go to it.  My nephew cleaned up his Dad's c&b revolver and it looked a lot worse than these two pistols. Fun project. Good luck!
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Spotted Bull

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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2012, 08:03:36 PM »
Cool, I was just gonna go to the shop and grab a couple of cans of PB Blaster...mighty good stuff!
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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2012, 08:09:01 PM »
Now ya did it, now I have to load mine up and go walk about.
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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2012, 08:12:41 PM »
Hoping I can get these back in order, especially this little one. I got the fever for them now...
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Captchee

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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2012, 10:14:38 AM »
first ,oil will not nutralize the powder .
 i would soak both guns in  eather penitrating fluid or a good rust remover .
 then break them down and see what you really have .
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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2012, 10:47:04 AM »
RB, if you get the cylinder out, decap the loaded cylinder, remove nipple, and push the load out thru nipple hole. If...........you can get the nipple out. Use a brass punch, but just to be sure, put bp powder solvent in the load from the rear. Just cause powder is old don't mean it isn't still lethal.
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Re: Basket Case #2
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2012, 06:54:13 AM »
RB,
     I could just  :cry:  :cry:  when I see any type gun in the condition of
those two. Follow the directions given by our knowledgeable members and I am
sure you can restore them to at least shooting condition.That 2nd one looks like
it may have a history behind it.I would do additional research on it before doing
much to it.JMO
John
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