When I open the cylinder pointing the revolver at the floor the yoke slides out of the frame. Is the screw located in the frame above the trigger below the cylinder frame a retention screw that could have broker or is there a retaining ring on the end of the yoke that could have broken?
That screw on the right just above and to the front of the trigger holds it in. It should have a slight shoulder on the end that fits in the groove at the rear of the yoke.
The screw behind the trigger will fit in that hole also but will usually bind the yoke if they are switched.
On older models, the two round head screws are, indeed, the same screw but the yoke screw is fitted to the yoke...yours may have been reversed by someone in the past if you have an older gun. In later models...I am not certain which 'dash' model this started with in the M10...the yoke screw uses a different arrangement with a spring loaded point. In these guns, sometimes the yoke can slip by the retention screw if pointed downward and, say, a speedloader pushed in hard...
Originally Posted By ikor:
On older models, the two round head screws are, indeed, the same screw but the yoke screw is fitted to the yoke...yours may have been reversed by someone in the past if you have an older gun. In later models...I am not certain which 'dash' model this started with in the M10...the yoke screw uses a different arrangement with a spring loaded point. In these guns, sometimes the yoke can slip by the retention screw if pointed downward and, say, a speedloader pushed in hard...
That spring loaded screw can also fall apart. I've had to replace a couple of them over the years.
the most common issue is that the 3 side plate screws are not interchangeable and sometime in the past someone took the gun apart and did not put the right screw back in the right hole- the one for the front hole that retians the cylinder should have a round head where the others in the side plate are flat.
