Harrington & Richardson "Premier 22 Rim Fire", patent date 1895!!! Cute little pistol but finding parts is like looking for "hens teeth", at least the small internal parts. That is the cute little thing right there!!! 7 shot double action and except for shaving a tiny bit of lead it works fine!!! 
The pictures are about 2 days old, and I have included a AAA battery for a size comparison.
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Disassembled this little pistol many years ago trying to solve the timing problem and that is when I discovered that some parts were unobtanium. Bagged everything up and put it away until I felt like messing with it. Well, about 2 weeks ago that bug bit me and I started searching for that little screw. Had some friends in computers and I got some small screws from them, but nothing fit. A "Starrett" Decimal, tap and die chart provided an approximate size and my dial caliper agreed, I needed a 3x56 tpi screw, maybe 1/16" to 3/32" long. The tap wasn't too hard to find, the screw however was a different subject. Finally found a seller on eBay that would sell me 20 screws, everyone else wanted to sell me 100 or up to 2 thousand screws to get the style that I thought would be best suited to this repair attempt.
The original screw was pretty badly mutilated removing it, so I may have not been able to get accurate measurements, but it now has a 3x56 screw where it had something else, and it will forever have to remain a mystery what size it was because the new 3x56 screw is working just fine!!!
Here is the screw fully modified to fit the pistol. What a pain in the neck. Had to grind about 1/3 of the heads thickness away, reduce the head diameter by about half then shorten the threaded portion to not protrude past the surface it was threaded into. Also had to enlarge the hole in the spring so that the screw could fit through the spring eye.
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And here it is installed in the revolver!!! So at least one problem is solved!!! That is it next to the hinge, and it has to be flush to the frames surface.
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Other problems...The "cylinder stop" appears to be bent, which just happens to be the part that the 3x56 screws holds in place. At no point in the DA cycle does the cylinder stop contact the cylinder. You can see the cylinder stop in the picture above. It is the left hand part visible through the rectangular hole in the frame. It should be protruding above the surface of the frame and it isn't. Not even close. It was also missing the lifter spring. I fabricated a spring that works but it looks nothing like the one pictured in the exploded diagram I found on the web. Maybe GunParts Corp can help me out, maybe!!!
God Bless, Frank.
The pictures are about 2 days old, and I have included a AAA battery for a size comparison.
Disassembled this little pistol many years ago trying to solve the timing problem and that is when I discovered that some parts were unobtanium.
Bagged everything up and put it away until I felt like messing with it. Well, about 2 weeks ago that bug bit me and I started searching for that little screw. Had some friends in computers and I got some small screws from them, but nothing fit. A "Starrett" Decimal, tap and die chart provided an approximate size and my dial caliper agreed, I needed a 3x56 tpi screw, maybe 1/16" to 3/32" long. The tap wasn't too hard to find, the screw however was a different subject. Finally found a seller on eBay that would sell me 20 screws, everyone else wanted to sell me 100 or up to 2 thousand screws to get the style that I thought would be best suited to this repair attempt.The original screw was pretty badly mutilated removing it, so I may have not been able to get accurate measurements, but it now has a 3x56 screw where it had something else, and it will forever have to remain a mystery what size it was because the new 3x56 screw is working just fine!!!
Here is the screw fully modified to fit the pistol. What a pain in the neck. Had to grind about 1/3 of the heads thickness away, reduce the head diameter by about half then shorten the threaded portion to not protrude past the surface it was threaded into. Also had to enlarge the hole in the spring so that the screw could fit through the spring eye.
And here it is installed in the revolver!!! So at least one problem is solved!!! That is it next to the hinge, and it has to be flush to the frames surface.
Other problems...The "cylinder stop" appears to be bent, which just happens to be the part that the 3x56 screws holds in place. At no point in the DA cycle does the cylinder stop contact the cylinder. You can see the cylinder stop in the picture above. It is the left hand part visible through the rectangular hole in the frame. It should be protruding above the surface of the frame and it isn't. Not even close. It was also missing the lifter spring. I fabricated a spring that works but it looks nothing like the one pictured in the exploded diagram I found on the web. Maybe GunParts Corp can help me out, maybe!!!
God Bless, Frank.
