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Recent trip to the LGS resulted in a S&W model 60 having a new home 
I hadn’t seen anything in the LGS on my radar in quite a while.
Initial checkout showed it hadn’t been abused; however it was difficult to open the cylinder. It looked like the locking bolt needed a little work.
It was too good to pass up at $499 so out comes the 4473.
I got home and took it all apart and gave it a good cleaning and once over.
I discovered it had a few issues but nothing I couldn’t fix.
The extractor tube had internal burr and the center pin bound in it so I reamed the burr with a number drill bit the same size as the inside of the inside extractor tube.
The yoke was sprung slightly to left and with the adjustment tool/fixture that was corrected.
The yoke barrel had been stretched by an amateur and it has ~ .002 endshake but I will not mess with it because the threads were a little rough and remove/replacing for testing fit may cause bigger problems with the threads.
The locking bolt had a sharp edge and pin end had machine marks so I smoothed them up and removed the sharp edges.
After the fixes and a set of Wolff springs it’s quite the shooter now. Trigger is nice, opens easily and all cleaned up.
S&W model 60 no dash
SN AWP61xx
No box or papers
DOB ~ 1965+ ?
Stainless Steel
2” bbl
38 special
Here are some pictures
I hadn’t seen anything in the LGS on my radar in quite a while.
Initial checkout showed it hadn’t been abused; however it was difficult to open the cylinder. It looked like the locking bolt needed a little work.
It was too good to pass up at $499 so out comes the 4473.
I got home and took it all apart and gave it a good cleaning and once over.
I discovered it had a few issues but nothing I couldn’t fix.
The extractor tube had internal burr and the center pin bound in it so I reamed the burr with a number drill bit the same size as the inside of the inside extractor tube.
The yoke was sprung slightly to left and with the adjustment tool/fixture that was corrected.
The yoke barrel had been stretched by an amateur and it has ~ .002 endshake but I will not mess with it because the threads were a little rough and remove/replacing for testing fit may cause bigger problems with the threads.
The locking bolt had a sharp edge and pin end had machine marks so I smoothed them up and removed the sharp edges.
After the fixes and a set of Wolff springs it’s quite the shooter now. Trigger is nice, opens easily and all cleaned up.
S&W model 60 no dash
SN AWP61xx
No box or papers
DOB ~ 1965+ ?
Stainless Steel
2” bbl
38 special
Here are some pictures
