W Turner
Member
Add me to the "Revolvers break too" crowd. In my case it was my wife's.
A few weeks ago, I took my wife's SW642 out of her purse to clean and function check it. I unloaded it and dry-fired it a few times. On the next to last dry-fire, I noticed an odd sound when the cylinder locked up and when I tried to swing the cylinder out, it was stuck. I then started dry-firing it slowly while watching everything. I noticed that the cylinder would turn, but I never felt the hammer drop. I took the sideplate off to see that the firing pin retaining pin had broken, allowing the firing pin and spring to fall down into the action and jam up the works.
I called SW and they sent me a new pin free of charge and I repaired it, but it made me queasy to think that my wife could have been carrying around a menacing looking paperweight.
W
A few weeks ago, I took my wife's SW642 out of her purse to clean and function check it. I unloaded it and dry-fired it a few times. On the next to last dry-fire, I noticed an odd sound when the cylinder locked up and when I tried to swing the cylinder out, it was stuck. I then started dry-firing it slowly while watching everything. I noticed that the cylinder would turn, but I never felt the hammer drop. I took the sideplate off to see that the firing pin retaining pin had broken, allowing the firing pin and spring to fall down into the action and jam up the works.
I called SW and they sent me a new pin free of charge and I repaired it, but it made me queasy to think that my wife could have been carrying around a menacing looking paperweight.
W