mikemyers
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Odd that there is any part of the S&W lockwork that a gunsmith is reluctant to disassemble. Not odd that a persistent quest for problems will find some.
Just a bit of explanation here.... In the above discussion, maybe I didn't make it clear - Will is not a gunsmith, but the owner of the gun shop. He had just cleaned up an old S&W revolver that he took in on trade, and showed it to me. I thought all I needed to do was clean out the inside of my gun, which I was reluctant to do, never having removed a sideplate before.
The gun in question had a "problem" all along, but my hope was that a good cleaning would take care of it. It helped, a lot, but now that it's so free and smooth, I can more easily notice things.
I think you're right - "a persistent quest for problems will find some".... but for all my life, I thought this was a good habit. I do it with everything, computers, cameras, motorcycles.... anything and everything. Why wait until something actually breaks or fails, when you can maybe fix things long ahead of time, and maybe prevent more damage? If your car starts running hotter than it used to, do you check it out then, or wait until something fails? I dunno..... it's just the way I do things. With guns, I can afford to be this way, as it's just my hobby. If I needed to wear a gun as part of my job, it would have been sent off to a proper gunsmith long ago....