renegadecow

$390! Not bad at all!

I just go with super glue + metal filings if the hole is too big. If it's too small, sand paper around a drill bit (smooth end) and a LOT of time and patience.

Late reply but I think it's to provide consistent output in case of 1 or 2 barrels not being loaded. The valves will shut allowing sufficient pressure to build up in the barrels that are chambered.

Much thank! Meanwhile, I made Waffen SS sniper veils.

I thought it was a rebrand at first but Snow Wolf's wood ver sells for as much as S&T's plastic ver.

If you mean licensed, yeah. But I highly doubt Chiappa are the ones doing the actual production.

Was thinking of doing this on rubberized grips that have started to rot off.

I made a thing. Also selling them on Etsy

Thanks. I use a metal rod as a mandrel with a vise grip holding one end of the spring and a flat piece of PVC with sized holes and a screw on the edge as a wire guide. I turn it by hand, going slowly to make sure the coils get the proper tension and negative angle so they're compressed tightly against each other. After the needed number of coils is reached I reverse is slowly to ease off tension then cut the ends. For compression springs I stretch it out by hand, sometimes using a rod or screwdriver shaft as a spacer towards the ends then temper.

Kinda like what I did on my SAA only it really was just a .38 cartridge bore sighter. With the end cap turned just a hair from turning on, the pressure from a shot is enough to activate it. Wasn't really useful as the dot was on for just a split second. If you design yours to be a whole barrel assembly (non tilting for simplicity) you can probably cram in some circuitry for a delay to keep the dot on long enough to be easily noticeable.

I exchanged messages with someone who bought one of those. Was told it was totally not worth it, rough machining everywhere and barely serviceable. It's just that he really, really had to get a Rhino replica being unable to buy the real thing.

Or they figured they'd make more money selling parts individually? The whole kits have all but dried out but there's been a steady flow of parts at WGC and Tiger111 from what I'm seeing. You can still make most of what you'll get in a kit but have to pay a lot more.

I think they stopped producing them because it sorts of admits that their internals are whack.