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I have used a small piece of blue painters tape, blue masking tape with great results. It stays in place and leaves no residue when removed. I have left it on the hinge area and applied grease over it and shot a 8 week trap leaque. Is a cheap fix and worked for me.
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Calvin, as Austin said, your extractor may be an issue. My 1877 lifter did not have a serialized extractor, which may or may not indicate a replacement. I used Dykem Blue and checked the interference between the breech face and extractor. Needless to say, I had to carefully file many thousandths off the extractor before I could get the action to close properly. THEN, I worked with shims. I bought a little $5.00 feeler gage from my local hardware store and cut a piece from the .004" gage to bring the barrels back 'on face'. I know you want something more permanent, but the shim does work for me. Good luck!
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Austin, we talked about this problem before. I had trouble with my lifter sticking closed. It was hard to start the lifter lever moving. The cure was removing barely visible rust from under the extractor face. A bit of brushing with a stiff metal brush and cleaning with oil and Voila! Opens smooth as silk! David
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