(10-26-2023, 01:42 PM)specops56 Wrote: Most amateurs concentrate on replacing the springs with lighter ones or, even worse, cutting coils off the rebound spring or backing out the strain screw. I concentrate on smoothing specific critical areas and then think about springs. Also, most don't know that polishing the springs also helps. I was taught that by the master gunsmith I worked for while waiting for my wife's enlistment to end.
Terry
When I was in the armory at Offutt I had a old school machinist turned AF gunsmith teach me to stone the guts of a revolver & even using wet sandpaper to smooth everything out & he said never cut the springs but you could use wet sandpaper on them
But before doing that dry fire it a few thousand times of it’s new, unlike our old revolvers
