Lifter Restoration

[Richard Flanders]

There's no good reason to take the hammers off and dismantle the locks if you don't want to. It really helps to have a mainspring vise for the dismantling. Sometimes hammers get rusted on a bit and are fine. Then you take them off and clean them and when they're back on they're loose because you took the rust out and now the screw will constantly loosen back out while you're shooting the gun. I have one like that that I have to peen the square shaft back out on to tighten that particular hammer. I can't seem to stop until I have the hammers off and have never had an issue getting them off but there can be issues...