Charter Arms repair times....
Posted: 30 Apr 2021 07:13
My daily carry was a Charter .44 "Boomer". I sent it in when it was new, couple of years ago, because it had a little misalignment on the crane. It came back just fine, and came back in 10 days time. As luck would have it, the crane broke last month. I'm guessing they applied some English and overstressed it. It's aluminum. At least it's not zinc. There is a circular retaining spring, on the crane and that's where it broke as the metal is much thinner there.
I sent it back, a month ago. Got a nice text message saying it was in queue, the repair number, how updates would be delivered. That was a month ago. I sent them an email yesterday and received a reply this morning. Current backlog is at least four months. Ouch. My guess is their suppliers, cannot deliver the parts.
Charter farms out quite a bit of parts, does final maxhine work and fitting in house. After talking to them a while ago, my understanding is they only make frames barrels and cylinders in house. Everything else is farmed out.
I guess that's the current state of affairs. It also explains why there's absolutely zero new Charters available.
I've got a 45 ACP Charter too, zero issues. People call them junk. I tend to think of them as workable, not highly refined, and perfectly adequate. My 44, would still shoot just fine, but when you opened the cylinder the cylinder was slide backwards. Only the grips kept it from falling off. Ah well.....
I sent it back, a month ago. Got a nice text message saying it was in queue, the repair number, how updates would be delivered. That was a month ago. I sent them an email yesterday and received a reply this morning. Current backlog is at least four months. Ouch. My guess is their suppliers, cannot deliver the parts.
Charter farms out quite a bit of parts, does final maxhine work and fitting in house. After talking to them a while ago, my understanding is they only make frames barrels and cylinders in house. Everything else is farmed out.
I guess that's the current state of affairs. It also explains why there's absolutely zero new Charters available.
I've got a 45 ACP Charter too, zero issues. People call them junk. I tend to think of them as workable, not highly refined, and perfectly adequate. My 44, would still shoot just fine, but when you opened the cylinder the cylinder was slide backwards. Only the grips kept it from falling off. Ah well.....