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Old 10-18-2005, 01:07 PM
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Lightbulb 44 SRH problem

I just came back from the range and was shooting my Ruger Super Redhawk 44 magnum and had to strip it all apart to clean it. My cyclinder was gummed up. I cleaned everything up and put it back together and then I noticed that the cyclinder now rotates counter clockwise. It orginally rotated clockwise. Is this going to cause a problem? Everything else seems fine. I must have put something together backwards.
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Old 10-18-2005, 02:24 PM
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erm. . . . no. . . . there is no way that cylinder rotation changes. It is determined by the notches on the back of the cylinder which are machined into the cylinder. My GP100 also rotates "backwards" from my blackhawk. If you are looking at the timing hand (the little pockey up thingy under the clyinder in the frame that stops rotation of said cylinder) It should be dropping into the beveled area just before the timing hand notch in the clyinder. If as you are looking at this and the hand is indeed falling on the wrong side of the notch (IE not hitting the cylinder then sliding into the bevel and finally the notch) then DO NOT FIRE THIS GUN! Send it back to ruger for factory repair immediadetly because there is no way in hell that it should EVER do this. And in point of fact the gun is engineered to prevent this from ever happening. I think most likely it has always turned that way and you just never noticed it before (Thats what happened to me about a month after I acquired my GP100.)

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Old 10-18-2005, 02:55 PM
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There is no way you can get the cylinder to turn the wrong way, but if you do you better duck befor you pull the trigger. I asume that your looking at the gun from the back when you say it`s turnning counter clock wise and that is the way they turn.
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Old 10-18-2005, 02:57 PM
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I did look at the timing hand and it is dropping into the beveled area before the notch. Maybe I did not notice it. I am sure though that it rotated clockwise before. Guess I will not worry about it.
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Old 10-18-2005, 05:33 PM
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Can't say that ALL rotate that direction but every DA revolver I own (Rugers & S&W's) rotate anti-clockwise.



Oh, BTW....GOB, that "little pokey up thingy" you refer to is called a Pawl I believe but under the description in the schematic where it says "Pawl" they have parenthesis around the term "pokey up thingy" so ya done good with your description!
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Old 10-19-2005, 10:17 AM
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ROFLMAO Thank TD good to know I didn't miss it completely.



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