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November 12, 2011
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This little rascal is mostly a pile of parts attempting to.
A. Get rid of some parts .
B. To have a walk around ,beater kind of DW.
So have no pity on it , it's good at what it does.
But in it's sorted life It seems to have lost its cylinder stop thingy on the side plate.
Is this even a part. On the Gunparts schematic it is part of the side plate.
Probably not to hard to make something and friction fit.
Right now it's just a big lube hole
Any one ever seen this?
Dans Club
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April 20, 2010
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Yep the cylinder stop thingy fell out. There are other threads about this somewhere around here, occasionally they fall out.
I believe you can contact the Dan Wesson factory and get a new one. Or if this is truly a beater then you could make your own, out of a small piece of steel rod or whatever you can find laying around. I can't find it now but I remember a thread where a member made his own and cold blued it. Either way when you put the new one in a little loctite or similar will hold it in place.
As I look at your revolver, it is a 15-2 with a 14-2 shroud, and a Millett front sight pinned in from a 15-2 right? Yes I am sure you can make your own cylinder stop and it will come out fine
-Lonwolf
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November 12, 2011
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Well, as I remember that is an accurate genome for this assemblage. Ya knows yur parts.
I will contact DW as I could use a couple of things and maybe start building one any way for fun.
At least it has happened to others, I felt a little singled out,
A heathen friend of mine suggested I should screw a grease zerk in the hole.
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November 17, 2008
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A heathen friend of mine suggested I should screw a grease zerk in the hole.
Only if you do a lot of rapid fire to burn off the oil! 
LB
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February 26, 2012
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Has this happened to any else? Yeah, I had one fall out at the range. Couldn't find it. No big deal except it wasn't my gun!
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Dans Club
March 2, 2008
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This is a problem with earlier 15-2's, and I have personal experience with this.
15-2's (and 715's) have an a cylinder stop integral to the sideplate. Earlier 15-2's had a rather flimsy cylinder stop design with a sharply defined design, which made it susceptible to breaking off completely. A running design change made this a more substantial and integral part of the sideplate, which eliminated this problem.
DW in Norwich an supply you with a Cylinder Stop part which you can install in your sideplate with the adhesive of your choice (lock-tite, epoxy, superglue).
My 1977 15-2 has this problem, resolved as described above, and is still going strong.
The "cylinder stop" is not part of the DW design, this is a service/repair part available. When I fixed my 15-2, I bought a couple of extras
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January 24, 2009
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I'll add some visual aid to Steve's post.
Early cylinder stops were a two piece design, and there were more than a few cases where part "B" separated from part "A".
As part of DW's ongoing refinements, they made both pieces as an integral unit. These two pics are of the same gun...mine.
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