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Rohrbaugh Products and Accessories => Rohrbaugh R9 (all variations) => Topic started by: Covert23 on January 29, 2016, 09:59:43 PM
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Greetings, I recently bought a new R9 with a serial #561 I believe. Some of you may have seen it on gun broker. My question is, does this serial number match up with the time frame when the factory had problems with some metals used for some of their slides during this brief period of time? I'm not concerned as the slide has the Deer Park markings so if it was, it may have been replaced. I may even be completely off as to it being a originally Farmingdale model to begin with. I was just curious because it does have the early gray frame. Anyway, last year I had to sell Two of my R9's for medical reasons so it.s nice to get back up to speed and get back into my hobbies. Cheers and look forward to good conversations on the forum with good company. Jim.
P.S. I'll post picks once I pick it up. I have an S&W 629 PC Snub on the way also on the way that I'll post as well. Thanks!
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Im sure someone will chime and answer your question..anyhow welcome and congrats on the early pup score. Id give it a fresh spring, run a couple mags of Gold Dot 124gr ..clean it like a jeweler, lube it and drop it in a pocket. Don't agonize over what ifs but aint.. and know that the ones that cracked still shot and functioned fine.
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Thanks mitchpatriot! I had 2 other R9's but they were later models. Had to sell them at the time for medical bills. Back in the game now so on the look out! Take care and thanks again. Jim
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Congrats........welcome BACK to the addiction!
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Welcome back James. . . . Your R561 is a true Farmingdale model. If it has the Deer Park slide on it now, that means the original owner sent it back to us to go over it. Is the slide the one with "Old English Text" script style lettering for Deer Park on the left hand side or the square block lettering for Deer Park? That makes a difference.
Hope you're doing better now.
Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
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Eric,
Can you clarify your above statement that there is a difference in the Deer Park slides related to the lettering? I am the original owner of A Farmingdale (R431) which went back to Rohrbugh for light primer strikes and was returned with a Deer Park slide (block lettering). Just curious about your statement in the preceding post. Thanks!
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Hello Jim,
Yes, the different style lettering on the side of our slides was used as a "code" for us in the factory for the type of stainless steel used for that particular slide and also for a repositioning of the firing pin location cut into the slides. The original Farmingdales were all made of a top stainless steel called 17-4. Once we moved to Deer Park, and the letting was still "Old English Text", those slides were still made of the 17-4 material. We found out in the early years that with the barrels being made out of 416 stainless steel and the slides out of 17-4, a harder material, we were having issues of premature wearing of the lockup between the barrel and the slides. Speaking with other manufacturers who we got friendly with, we found out that the dissimilar materials were the culprit. We switched to 416 stainless steel for both the slides and the barrels, which significantly reduced the wear, or the rounding off of the barrel lockup area. That improvement greatly helped the lockup and durability of the firearm. The slides that have Deer Park, N.Y. in block letters are the newer design using the 416 stainless for both the slide and the barrels. The last update to the slides would be the slight repositioning of the firing pin about .001" to .002" to line up the firing pin directly in the center of the 9mm round. That was more of Karl being German and, dare I say "anal" about making the pistol as perfect as we could. Those slides with the repositioned firing pin hole are indicated by us changing the "Made in USA" to "Made in U.S.A." when we added the periods in between the letters for USA. There you have the three different slide setups for the duration of our manufacture.
I trust that helps with the mystery of the different style lettering on the side of our slides. It was an easier code than trying to put serial numbers on each and every slide.
Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
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Thank you, Eric. Love knowing the history of your beautiful creations.
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Eric,
Thank you so much for staying active in this forum and answering questions!
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Thank you Eric! Doing well with recovery, I really appreciate the thoughts! I'll post pics of the R9 as soon as I can. The Deer Park lettering is big block, old English text. It's in great condition and I look forward to shooting it. Take care, Jim
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Some pics
http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/jimstu4/library/R9
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Some pics
http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/jimstu4/library/R9
That album is tagged as private so I can't see the photos.
Could you just post the individual links? That should get around your privacy settings for those specific pictures.
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Thanks. I'll make the fix
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Thanks. I'll make the fix
Ah........I can see now, that is a nice looking pistol.
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Thank you, Eric. Love knowing the history of your beautiful creations.
You're welcome Capt.
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Eric,
Thank you so much for staying active in this forum and answering questions!
I'm trying to James, but my free time has become less and less as my other ventures are taking more and more of it from me. lol.
. . . . I'll do my best to stay around and answer questions and participate in a thread I have interest in, but just bare with me if I take longer than a few days to answer here. I just purchased another synthesizer for my soundscape improvisations. It is an Oberheim Synthesizer, which I used back in the days of my previous musical ventures. My goal is to eventually figure out how to post a few of those recordings for everyone here to give a listen to and, hopefully, enjoy at the right time.
Regards,
ECR
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Thank you Eric! Doing well with recovery, I really appreciate the thoughts! I'll post pics of the R9 as soon as I can. The Deer Park lettering is big block, old English text. It's in great condition and I look forward to shooting it. Take care, Jim
Glad you are doing well James. . . . . Continue to do so please! lol