ExMachina
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New S&W 22-4 (so, a 6 shot revolver).
Something looks weird about how the cylinder indexes--if you look @ the (unloaded) gun from the front, the chambers don't look perfectly even as they line up. It looks like the cylinder is always a tiny bit over-rotated.
Then I looked at the flutes to see how they align with the topstrap, and sure enough, on one side of the topstrap, the flute is always slightly under the topstrap while on the other there is always a little bit of the cylinder flat showing before the flute (make sense?). This strange alignment is consistent from chamber to chamber.
Sounds like a timing issue perhaps? However, if I look down the barrel with a flashlight I can't SEE a timing problem with any of the chambers.
So is this just something about how the frame was made? How the cylinder was made??
Doesn't anybody else have a six gun like this?
I'm trying to decide if it's a real problem that I want S&W to address.
Thanks for any advice.
Something looks weird about how the cylinder indexes--if you look @ the (unloaded) gun from the front, the chambers don't look perfectly even as they line up. It looks like the cylinder is always a tiny bit over-rotated.
Then I looked at the flutes to see how they align with the topstrap, and sure enough, on one side of the topstrap, the flute is always slightly under the topstrap while on the other there is always a little bit of the cylinder flat showing before the flute (make sense?). This strange alignment is consistent from chamber to chamber.
Sounds like a timing issue perhaps? However, if I look down the barrel with a flashlight I can't SEE a timing problem with any of the chambers.
So is this just something about how the frame was made? How the cylinder was made??
Doesn't anybody else have a six gun like this?
I'm trying to decide if it's a real problem that I want S&W to address.
Thanks for any advice.