Pinned Barrels on S&W
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carguychris
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I'm no expert on motorcycles, but based on what some Harley owners have told me, I'm not sure how much worse Bangor Punta would have been compared to AMF!
At least S&W and/or H-D weren't sold to British Leyland- arguably the overall 20th century leader in taking over well-established and loved brands and absolutely running them into the ground.
At least S&W and/or H-D weren't sold to British Leyland- arguably the overall 20th century leader in taking over well-established and loved brands and absolutely running them into the ground.
Well, here’s a chance for some of you S&W experts to school me about what may be an urban legend I heard when I was an impressionable ‘young’ man.
(And I’ll be disappointed but I promise I’ll try not to let my feelings get hurt if this story is pure balderdash.)
The story is that when new S&W revolvers came in at the local hardware store they were inspected really closely and when a real clunker showed up that obviously was not up to spec the store notified their best customers who would snap it up and send it back to S&W where some of the same guys that worked in the Performance Center would correct the issue with the revolver and usually ‘clean up’ anything else they saw that didn’t meet their standards. The results were that for buying a clunker at regular price you got back a pretty slick gun.
I guess the true/false question would hinge on did the same guys do warrantee work that did the custom work at S&W?
(And I’ll be disappointed but I promise I’ll try not to let my feelings get hurt if this story is pure balderdash.)
The story is that when new S&W revolvers came in at the local hardware store they were inspected really closely and when a real clunker showed up that obviously was not up to spec the store notified their best customers who would snap it up and send it back to S&W where some of the same guys that worked in the Performance Center would correct the issue with the revolver and usually ‘clean up’ anything else they saw that didn’t meet their standards. The results were that for buying a clunker at regular price you got back a pretty slick gun.
I guess the true/false question would hinge on did the same guys do warrantee work that did the custom work at S&W?
A picture is definitely worth a thousand words here. (Hope this image makes it to the thread.)
The recessed cylinder gives the case a little more support but it's more expensive to make and since *lots* of guns out there operate just fine without them it's a cost cutting measure that's been adopted by many manufacturers.
The recessed cylinder gives the case a little more support but it's more expensive to make and since *lots* of guns out there operate just fine without them it's a cost cutting measure that's been adopted by many manufacturers.
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carguychris
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10 words or less... hmm challenging.
Chambers are counterbored. Cases fit flush with rear cylinder face.
Does that describe it well enough?
Mandatory added info... this only applies to centerfire Magnums. Standard-production centerfire non-Magnum S&W revolvers have never had counterbored chambers. OTOH standard-production post-1935 rimfire S&W revolvers all have counterbored chambers, including today's production; this is done as a safety measure in the event of a case-head blowout.