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I got some Drop-Out to use with my .36 Colt mold from Eras Gone, previously I smoked molds with a yellow acetylene flame off my Presto-Lite torch. I used a light touch applying the Drop-Out, and give the mold a light tap with the stick I use to whack the sprue cutter. The bullets drop out easily.  If memory serves I first learned about the stuff from Duelist 1954's site.

  Some sort of case hardening makes sense to me Richard. I can't see Pietta buying a steel capable of being hardened simply to support a finish. Actually I'm amazed they even bother with fancy finishes and fantasy guns, Pietta actually needs to focus on launching a buy-back program to get the tailed navies out of circulation and replace them with something closer to the Uberti grip.

Is the revolver simply a London model finished in the white?

The Whitney certainly, and also the Kerr.

 Welcome to the group TP, it's a pleasure to meet a shooter whose background in engineering has taught him to appreciate percussion Colts.

  My youngest son bought me a Uberti Remington navy last Christmas. It's an ungainly uncomfortable hunk of metal, but shoots well. It took him about three months to get around to the subject, but he began to bring up my Argentine Mauser carbine in "casual" conversation. Then he borrowed it to "look at" and showed an abnormal interest in the contents of a dusty ammo box I keep in the cellar. Inch by inch he wormed the Mauser away from me until I gave it to him officially in June, and began to drop hints myself about the new grip pattern Pietta was supposedly using on it's 51's, and how I really oughta get off my butt some day and buy one. Let the games begin!

  Since limiting the amount and weight of paper limits the amount of paper residue, most shooters seem to roll their cartridges from rather small pieces of paper, which are difficult to handle and may require the application of glue. I find that pinching one edge of the paper to the former with a single edge razor blade, applying a line of thinned Duco cement to the paper's edge, and then pressing the unglued edge down onto the glued edge works well.
  Though generally nervous about loading a cartridge into a chamber which may hold smoldering paper residue from a previous shot, I have come to believe that a shred of untreated tissue weight paper is unlikely to burn through the wrapper of a subsequent cartridge and detonate it. I've yet to come across any record of it happening.