I have searched the archives and everything else I could find. What I have found is the Farmingdale guns have larger firing pins and thinner blocks because of it.
Questions:
Can the block be fixed to use the newer style firing pins? Is it a major problem? What would be a large, round, number of shots fired before a problem might occur?
I am looking at a used Farmingdale gun and debating it vs a new gun. It very near what I want and it's near new, probably less than 500 rounds. It has a new Badger barrel (original was 45-120).
Doz
Give Kirk a call and talk directly to him... Last year when I was in the shop, He told me to send the old breech block in ( my farmingdale 45/70) and he wopuld swap it out for me... No mention of price was made, and I have read on this forum where others have had the same experience.
Trigger Dr
Folks, did the breech block exchange with Shiloh. The new block fits super and it has the small fireing pin opening. Works great. This was about 8 months ago and the cost was around $90.00. Contact Kirk, his team does a superb job of it.
