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Old January 28, 2009, 05:05 PM   #14
mykeal
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Rotational free play is more serious than end play. The fact that the edge of the chamber is not visible outside the barrel helps me understand how much free play we have, but the real issue is that the edge of the chamber should line up with the inside edge of the barrel, and it very likely does not.

I think you have too much free play, so the spring needs to be tightened up more to ensure the bolt head fully engages the cylinder stop notch. This should occur at two different hammer positions: full down and full cock. At half cock the cylinder should freely rotate in the clockwise direction.

The apparent solution to the problem of the bolt slipping off the hammer cam prematurely when the spring is tightened is to straighten the leg of the spring that controls the bolt position.
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