The Parker Story

[ch]

ok lets just call me the slow student:-) the term off face is.A SLOOP AT HING...B SLOOP AT LATCH... C SLOOP IN GENERALD...D SOMETHING ELSE ch oh ill b getting parker pages soon check is in mail.

[TARNATION !!!]

Okay, I too am a student of the Parker. Here's my understanding of "off face". Subject to correction of course.

Open the gun and look at the frame where the two holes show for the firing pins to pass through. That surface is the "face".

Close the barrels. If it closes tight with no detectable movement and no measurable clearance between the barrels and frame face, it is "on face"

Any movement or measurable gap would be "off face"

common cause

Barrel lug that mates with the hinge pin is worn
Permanent fix: weld the lug mating surface and file/dress to fit
Decent fix: rolled brass shim over hinge pin You can make a shim from the appropriate size brass feeler gauge

That would be my response if I were writing the test.

[Mike McKinney]

Dean,

I am now reading Mr. Muderlak's, "Shooting Flying and American Experience", I borrowed and read "The Old Reliable" a good while back, but didn't have the same interest, so it as well as the others are on my list to acquire and read. I joined your group three Parker Pages ago--are back issues available? Rome wasn't built in a day, so I'll work to get there.

Mike