WildRose wrote:Wynd what do you not like about it? I think they have one design flaw which I solved pretty easily. That's the fact the tolerances are so tight that they get dirty in a big hurry.
I just took a 1/8" drill bit and drilled a port hole back from the top of the bbl to the point where the firing cylinder meets the frame. Ten minutes worth of thinking, thirty seconds worth of work, many thousands of rounds through it with no failures.
No more problems. CR
The firing pin will strike the primer, not deep enough to fire. It's hardly made "too close."
I lost pin and cylinder from a NEF once. I made a couple new cylinders out of T-303 SSTL, and some new pins. If you remember back, the NEF pins used to have only one groove to lock in place...if you missed it the pin would work back and out everything goes.
I made my pins with two grooves, one to lock the cylinder in position to fire, the other would allow the pin to work back some, but not far enough to let the cylinder fall out. It wouldn't fire or index...but you wouldn't loose anything. Let me tell ya, there's a bunch of work in making a cylinder.
I think they come that way now...not sure though.
I also tried to make a 209 cylinder, from the old Days End 209 pistol, fit a NEF .32 fame. That works for a bit, but the primer cup separates from the hull causing a jam. Maybe different a different manufacturer would solve the problem. But Winchesters didn't work.
