Fleshing out the "kit" for the better half's new '62 Pocket Navy (we'd not been in the C&B biz in over a decade) I bought a Slim Jim holster, a Ted Cash "universal" snail capper, and some odds and ends. The stuff arrived today, and of course the capper, while very nice and well made, wouldn't fit the diminuative 5 shot .36 cylinder on the '62. At first i was gonna send it back, but after studying HOW MUCH the nose of the capper lacked of fitting into the notches around the nipples, (seemed like a mile), and what could and could NOT be trimmed away on the capper, I decided to go for it. After several rounds of everybody's favorite game of "Fit and try", I trimmed away enough of the nose to get it down around the nipple. Then the durn spring wouldn't let it free when ya capped a nipple without yanking on it too hard..... So I first re-bent (gently) then ground the nose of the spring until capping happiness was achieved.
Note how there is NO extra material around the cap once in the "ready" position. The spaces around the nipples on the little cylinder are pretty tight. I suspect the same would be true for the pocket police or the '49 Pocket revolvers.
Anyway, with a proper pistol flask a pard gave us (real nice 2nd Gen Colt), the holster and capper, we're about "there", well except for a dovetailed front sight to get er to shoot POA, which will be a winter project.....
I'd forgot just how much fun the C&B guns are. Might have to git me another '61 one day....
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