SP-101 Owners: Do All SPs Do This?

Something is not fitted right with that gun.

Nothing on the frame is supposed to move when puling the trigger. That includes the trigger guard housing.

Deaf
 
I did fully disassemble and polish the internals, but I only used a soft Dremel wheel with rouge, so there's no chance I could have deformed any of the parts.
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Not true, I tested this out one day and only after a minute or two of polishing a piece of steel with a dremel and rouge it left a noticable shallow gouge in the metal. Try mothers mag polish next time, it is far less abrasive and actually gets it to a higher shine.
 
The object is not to have nice, shiny pretty looking parts. Only specific surfaces should be worked for specific reasons and a dremel is not the right tool to do that. Nearly impossible to keep everything straight and level. A set of stones works much better if you know what you're doing. You don't polish ANYWHERE you don't know exactly what you expect to gain from polishing there, and know where NOT to polish and why. You don't just start polishing things just to be polishing them. Guessing where to polish or polishing at random doesn't work. I'm not saying that's what you did, just that I've seen a lot of guns screwed up pretty bad by someone doing that.
 
Thanks for the tips Dragline and Oldgunsmith! I polished my internals according to the guide on Teslamap, and took great care to polish only a little and used a low speed. I actually think I did not polish as much as it could have used, as there was almost no noticeable difference in the trigger pull after I was done. But I'll stay away from the Dremel in the future, thank you for the heads-up!

As far as the loose trigger guard goes, nothing I polished has any interaction with the latch or the hole it locks into, so I'm sure that it was not caused by the polishing.

Ivan
 
Called Ruger today to inquire about the RMA status, he said my gun is on it's way back to me as of yesterday afternoon! Later I got an email from UPS, scheduled delivery is Monday! Very excited to get my gun back!

The guy listed off the things they had done to it, I don't remember all of them but they included "adjust trigger guard", "adjust frame" and "replace pawl" (???).

Will update on Monday!
 
All's Well that Ends Well

Well, UPS made a "sorting error" so it took an extra day to arrive, but my SP101 got here yesterday and she is beautiful! The gap issue no longer exists, haven't had time to give it a range session yet but it looks and cycles perfect. I put my shims, Wolff hammer spring and Chig's grips back on so it's 100% mine again.

So, total turnaround time was 2 weeks exactly, including UPS's slight screw up. Not bad at all!

Ivan
 
Being a newbie to revolvers I was mainly looking at S&W DA, but more I read about Ruger more I like it. Thanks for sharing your good experience...
 
"Adjusted trigger guard, frame, hammer dog, replaced pawl, polished frame, trigger guard."

That's what the repair slip says. I am curious as well as to what exactly they did, but it wasn't anything obvious inside the gun.

I wonder why they replaced the pawl and adjusted the hammer dog, I find it very difficult to believe that I messed them up with my polishing job but I can't deny that it's possible.

Ivan
 
Could be. It's also possible that it had nothing to do with that.

Tightening up the triggerguard/triggergroup with respect to the frame would have changed the relationship of parts attached to the triggerguard to the parts they interface with that are attached to the frame. If there was enough of a change, that might have required some additional fitting or even replacement.
 
Not sure if this means anything, but I sent my SP101 in for forcing cone damage with a Wolf 9lbs hammer spring.

They sent me the gun back with the heavier factory hammer spring installed along with the 9lbs spring mounted on that thingy. It was an easy swap back to the 9lbs sping. now I have two thingies.:D
 
Dang it, I should have removed the cylinder from mine before I sent it in, enough repair trips and I'd have two guns! :D

John, you make a good point about the refitting possibly requiring replacement parts, I didn't think of that.

Ivan
 
Not sure if this means anything, but I sent my SP101 in for forcing cone damage with a Wolf 9lbs hammer spring.

They sent me the gun back with the heavier factory hammer spring installed along with the 9lbs spring mounted on that thingy. It was an easy swap back to the 9lbs sping. now I have two thingies.
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Ruger's standard practice, when repairing, is to put everything back to factory specs. AFAIK they return the non-factory spec parts.
 
I think most gun companies do that. The reason is (as usual) legal liability, If they let a gun out of the factory that is not in accordance with factory specs, they could be held liable if a non-factory part fails and causes injury or death. No matter that it is a repair job and came in with the non-factory part, if they ship it out that way, they "own" it.

Jim
 
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