Of the three firearms we picked up that weekend, this was the real dog of the bunch. We paid $9 for the revolver and fixed it for less than $6. We relocated the grips to a large frame safety hammerless model and put the shorter grips on this one. Numrich Arms sold us a trigger spring for $5.75 and after disassembling the revolver and removing the old one, we popped it in and the trigger was working again. We figured if we could not fix it, we at least had a nice set of grips for one of our other Ivers! Iver Johnson Safety Hammer Automatic Other than that, everything about the revolver was in good working order. The revolver in question had little original finish remaining, and the trigger would not reset. We had only seen pictures of these in books and never on an actual Iver Johnson and knew they were on the rare side. What caught our eye on this one was the set of New Model Target Grips installed. The $18 revolver was fixed with a little elbow grease and a $35 set of grips meaning we have $53 invested in this revolver and could easily sell it for 2 to 3 times that amount. They supply several screw lengths, but we still had to cut one of the screws by 2mm to fit. The replacement grips came from NC Ordnance and cost $35 shipped. We remedied this with a metal file to bring the pin back into shape. The replacement grip on this example had been carved out of a piece of wood and was honestly a reasonably good fit.Īfter thoroughly cleaning the glue from the frame we saw that the grip retaining pin on the right-hand side was flared and would not let the grip fit properly. Then we noticed that the grip screw through the grip was stacked with a bunch of steel and copper washers. A little prying with a screwdriver and tapping with a plastic hammer seemed to remedy this. After removing the grip screw, we noticed that the panel would not come off. The grip was glued or epoxied to the frame. That’s what we thought going into this, but the Bubba who repaired this one made the task not so simple.
We wanted to restore it and by now you are probably thinking, “Big deal, you replaced a grip panel”.
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