Question about TC frames

[jbwell]

OK, got another question.  I see old, 4 & 5 digit serial numbers, with no safety. Then like one of mine, Forward pivot pin and what I call a cross bar safety. Small square piece that slides thru the hammer to engage the safety. Then like my other frame, easy open, pivot pin above the trigger and fire selector/safety lever on top of the hammer. Here's my question, I see some with the easy open design pivot pin above the trigger and the cross bar type safety, were some frames made like that or were all of these sent in for the easy open conversion?

[skb2706]

I believe they were converted. You will be able to tell because with the conversion they leave the original pivot pin hole forward of the trigger guard in the frame. When I had mine done they required that I have the hammer assembly changed at the same time.

[jbwell]

So maybe they did some conversions without changing the hammer. I'm only looking at pictures so with a forend on the gun can't see the old pivot pin hole.

[skb2706]

Could be. This goes back several years but the way it went down was - I had a non easy open frame and after many thousand dry firings the hammer cracked. This was the hammer that you desrcibe in your OP. So I sent the gun back, it could veery well have been that they had to change out hammer style any way and offered to do the easy open conversion since they had the gun anyway. I have CRS so can't be too sure.

[jbwell]

CRS,,,, happens to all of us sooner or later. If it wasn't yesterday don't expect me to remember it,,, and then some times I don't remember yesterday...

[P.A. Myers]

Currently when T/C does an EZ conversion, they replace every thing except the bare frame. 'Skeletal' hammers are known to break and be  replaced with solid hammers by the owner. I replaced a solid hammer with a cross-bar safety unit.

[jbwell]

Well, I see a lot of pictures on gunbroker and other places of TCs with the pivot pin above the trigger and they still have the old hammer with the cross bar safety.