...and after around fifty pages I had found something to fix in each and every revolver I have.
This is excellent read for everyone who is interested in proper maintenance,learning and general understanding of S&W revolvers.
I didn't know my M14 had .001 yoke endshake and that is too much. Now I know that my 66 has been "hollywoodized" and has a bent yoke plus something else. Etc etc basic things that need to get fixed.
I want to learn and I need to learn,we don't really have revolver smiths in Finland any more. We have ONE shop that has some S&W parts in stock ,they say on their pages that "last ones going,no new parts will be ordered". Revolvers are yesterday for many.
So revolvers are really "out" here. I went through my Glock & Sig phase, nothing wrong with them but I rather spend my range time with revolvers now. I got mentally back home with them,silhouettes,bullseye - and yes timed practise,too but not serious IPSC any more.
I have no illusions of becoming a gunsmith overnight at 57 years by reading one book and buying some tools. But I have stripped and re-assebled a few since the 90's,done all kinds poor man's gunsmithing. Got machinists and "smiths" of various levels to talk to.
I will not buy a chinese lathe but I will shop Brownells quite a bit. I have a goal,to be able to re-cut a forcing cone with hand tools one day.