Thread: Help with single shot Rossi

Here is the broken bit

It should look something like this

I lightly prepped it and built it up using 507t toolsteel making sure to penetrate all the way threw into the hole to provide as large as possible dilution area for the dissimilar metals.
Now iv got to clean it up and shape it.

The locking peice it engages only has a very small notch hence the pissy little tab.

I'm thinking I will open out this notch half a mm or so to enable the tab to be a bit beefier. At first glance i cant see a problem with this but will have to look further obviously.

Then onto why it broke it in the first place, in theory there should be no load on that tab during firing unless the angles on the locking piece and barrel are creating thrust. The locking piece has obviously been on a stone and im picking is the cause
Its still nice and tight when closed so hopefully I can remedy this without having to build it up and start from scratch.