Deanimator
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I've got a surplus 3 1/2"" S&W Model 65 I got from CDNN.
It was in great shape, but randomly had light hits.
The fellow club member who worked on my guns and I puzzled over it for a few days until I suggested that he look at the strain screw.
Sure enough, some genius had shortened the screw so that it could be tightened down all the way, but was so short that it was slipping off of the pressed rib in the mainspring. It's 100% after getting a stock screw. It's a wonder that the dope who did it didn't get killed in a gunfight, carrying a nonfunctional firearm.
It was in great shape, but randomly had light hits.
The fellow club member who worked on my guns and I puzzled over it for a few days until I suggested that he look at the strain screw.
Sure enough, some genius had shortened the screw so that it could be tightened down all the way, but was so short that it was slipping off of the pressed rib in the mainspring. It's 100% after getting a stock screw. It's a wonder that the dope who did it didn't get killed in a gunfight, carrying a nonfunctional firearm.
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