Hammer Time!

[Mark Ray]

Parker # 5392, the first known exposed hinge pin Parker, is eternally grateful for the sacrifice Parker #58662 has just made in order to restore her dignity!

It is now time t begin the resto process!!!!

[Mills Morrison]

Wow! Good find

[Jay Oliver]

Mark, It looks like you cleaned those hammers up well...they look great on that lifter! I am glad they worked out.

[Mike Franzen]

Congratulations Mark on a great find. Very interesting engraving.

[Mark Ray]

SOOOOOO much better!!!!

[Dean Romig]

That serial number and description should be sent to Josh for inclusion in Parkers Found.





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[Milt Fitterman]

Lucky guy Mark. Beautiful gun. I love lifters.

[Brian Dudley]

What happened to your hammers?

[Chuck Bishop]

Just guessing but if the second set of pictures are the replacement hammers, it looks like the first set of hammers were of a later design with the much compressed curve and it looks like the hammers would not strike the firing pins correctly.

[Mark Ray]

My descriptions are confusing....

The first pic is with the “new to the gun” D grade replacement hammers. The angle looks wrong, but the hammer faces square up perfectly to the strikers as they approach contact. Tha second photo is the gun as I found it, with the plain replacement hammers, very seemingly attached to the gun with the original hammer screws. Who knows what the story there is?. I often wondered if an owner of the gun along the way put these plain hammers on the gun for hunting so he wouldnt risk losing one of the engraved ones. Regardless, this gun is now getting ready to be returned to its original glory!

I had the chance to put it through its intended purpose this past Spring in its “as found” condition. Those plain hammers maybe didnt look good, but they still made the gun go bang!

[edgarspencer]

looks like the replaced hammers were from a much lower grade gun. The replacements are much more appropriate.
Chuck, I don't think there is an axle-to-firing pin difference.

[Mike Franzen]

In both pics the hammers look the same to me. What am I missing?

[Mark Ray]

In both pics the hammers look the same to me. What am I missing?
1. Before, the gun as it was when I bought it.
2. After, the gun with the donor “D” grade hammers.

[Mark Ray]

For funsies, here is the donor gun, wearing its “new” hammers!!,

I’m going to have this gun put back on face, have the barrels refinished, and let Dave Wolf do his magic refreshing the stock, then let the new owner (TBD) go off on his own hammer search!!,

[Chuck Bishop]

Does the faces of the hammers contact the firing pins properly?

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

I have several guns with hammers that do not look like they will work but do so very well, Gary

[Mark Ray]

Does the faces of the hammers contact the firing pins properly?

yes Chuck, they do vertically.....I am not a geometry expert, but as the hammer face approaches the firing pin, it very quickly squares up with the face of the firing pin. The hammers do need to be fitted a little closer to the frame of the gun, but the firing pins still are adequately struck as is. I am going to completely refresh this gun, so the Gunsmith chosen can get that accomplished for me.

[Dennis E. Jones]

VERY NICE!!!

I've seen hammer guns with cracked hammers and those with obvious replacement hammers so I assumed that the originals were either lost or broke from hard use.

[Mark Ray]

The before and after pics of my early lifter are also a testament to what frontier pads, ballistol and elbow grease can accomplish!