Parker conversion

[CHE]

Did Parker ever convert a hammer side lock to hammerless side lock? There was a old man (84 yrs old) with one at the Denver gun collectors show this past weekend and he had one. It was a lower grade with laminated steel bbls.
It looked like it could be a factory job but I never heard of one.

[Dean Romig]

He had a PARKER that had been converted?

That's something I'd like to see.... I can't even imagine how that would have been accomplished

[edgarspencer]

I can't even get beyond "WHY?"
I doubt you were looking at a Parker frame. The alignment of fire firing pins would pretty much make such a feat impossible. Hammer frames in the lock area are much thinner than hammerless frames.

[PML]

Originally Posted by tom leshinsky

Did Parker ever convert a hammer side lock to hammerless side lock? There was a old man (84 yrs old) with one at the Denver gun collectors show this past weekend and he had one. It was a lower grade with laminated steel bbls.
It looked like it could be a factory job but I never heard of one.

That gun was actually a grade 3 with sculped bolsters. It also had a Remington repair code on the barrel flats which makes you wonder if Remington did the conversion. Overall the gun was in poor condition and the barrels had been cut to 28" but it was interesting to see and wonder what it looked like on the inside. I took a picture of it with my cell phone. I will try to find it and post.

Patrick

[Dean Romig]

Thanks for being there Patrick, and for taking pictures.

[Robert Delk]

I suppose if Dan Lefever could convert a muzzle loader to a breech loader that about anything is possible given someone with the right skills.

[PML]

All I had was my cell phone so the pictures are not the greatest but here it is. It was a fully functional gun.

Patrick

[Autumn Daze]

Boy, I would like to see the internals of that gun.

[PML]

Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

Boy, I would like to see the internals of that gun.

Me too Dave. I did take the barrels off and there was a Remington repair code. The old gentleman had owed it for 70 years by his estimate and it was like this when he purchased it.

Patrick

[edgarspencer]

I doubt that was done by the factory but I can clearly see it was done by a skilled person. Still, the question of 'why?' . It kind of reminds me of a guy who comes every year to the Dublin Antique engine show with a simplicity lawn tractor with a ford flathead V8 in it. The workmanship is what I expect NASA demands, and the sucker runs and drives, but it's one of those exercises in engineering that seem to have no logic.