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Early in my checkered career I used to tighten those up by knocking out the pivot pin, then clamping the barrel and frame together and reaming the hole with a slightly tapered reamer and driving in a matching tapered pin. Then the pin had to be cut to length and the ends finished, sometimes including refinishing the whole frame of the gun. In these times it ain't worth the customer's money or my time to refurbish these old timers, besides, as you said the chances are that it's got a short chamber and it sure isn't worth doing chamber work. Tell him to hang it on the wall as is, and maybe cut off the firing pin to keep others from shooting it. Here endeth the epistle. Goatwhiskers the Elder
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