M-28 Highway Patrolman hammer tip broke

Thank you FM, but I got it.
In fact I just ordered one of each kind of hammer, the 500 and 400. I borrowed by dad's Jerry K. S&W Double Action Revolvers which I just gave him yesterday for Fathers day and plan on inserting one of those two hammers myself.:cool:
 
Dont throw the old one out, you could always smooth out what is left of the spur and checker the top for a pseudo DAO gun that you can still cock if you really want to.

Unless of course it looks like the fault continues through the metal....

Of course the liability natzis will point out that this is ill advised but I had a Smith set up this way and I kind of liked it... no snag draw but keeps 100% of my options open.
 
ALRIGHT the 500 hammer just came in. Not only that but it has a firing pin and springs installed and all. Looks like all I need do is drop it in place:cool:

EDIT: Ooookeeey. Got a little problem. I dropped the hammer in, attached everything to it and now....the hammer won't pull back. I pull the trigger in DA and the cylinder rotates but all the hammer does is lean in allowing the pin to go through and hit where the primer would be. Something is keeping it from going back.


EDIT: *Sigh* I think they sent me the wrong dang part!:mad:. I got the hammer in place. It went full DA once and then locked up again.

I am now tryingto swap the sear from the hammer with the broken spur and install it in the new hammer...that is if I can find something thin enough to push the littel pin out

I told them M-28-2 Highway Patrolman and they repeated that back to me


EDIT: Page 50 of Jerry Kuhnhusen's S&W Revolver book is explaining what is going on. I think they put in a sear that was too long and there is not enough clearance.

EDIT: I got the sear pin out of the old hammer but I can't get it out of the new hammer.
I am taking a thin phillips screwdriver that's tip is just thin enough to fit into the hole and tapping on it with the but of a larger screwdriver and then pull it the rest of the way out twisting it with plyers. But it won't seem to budge in the new hammer

Anyone know of any other kind of tricks up their sleeve?

EDIT: This just keeps getting crazier. I took the pin from the broken hammer and used it to tape the old hammer part of the way enough to pull it free, now the other pin his halfway stuck in the new hammer and I can't pull it back out AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I've been piddling with this for 2 hours~
 
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:(I almost want to cry. I finally got the pins and sears and everything rearranged accordingly......the gun is put back together.....and now it...."sorta" works.
the action is clunky. There is a catch in the action slightly. Sometimes the cylinder turns, sometimes it doesn't in DA and SA
 
Replacement sears are made a bit long so they can be fitted. It sounds like the sear is not snapping forward over the trigger and if it doesn't, you won't get the gun to fire DA. Release the hammer spring tension and remove the remove the sideplate. Then remove the hammer spring and work the action watching to see if that is the problem. You can stone the sear a bit until it works OK. But if I were you, I would just install the old sear rather than try to work on the new one.

Watch carefully how the sear moves out of engagement as the trigger picks up the hammer directly. That change of leverage is the secret of S&W's DA trigger pull.

Jim
 
But if I were you, I would just install the old sear rather than try to work on the new one.
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That's what I did. And now the action works some of the time, other times the cylinder won't turn.

Whenever I put the gun upward, it certainly won't turn, whenever I point it straight down it will usually turn.
Sounds like the paw is falling backwards...but I don't understand what that has to do with the new hammer and/or sear.

I think tomorrow I'm taking it to a gun repair guy here in Marshall (he used to carry one of these things as a duty weapon)
 
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