Nick96
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Okay folks - clear your minds and prepare them for some out of the box thinking. To check the cylinder to barrel alignment of my recently acquired S&W 642 - I pointed it at a mirror (checking first of course to make sure it was unloaded) and trigger cycled it. I noticed what looked like a faint spark when the striker fell. So I tunrned off the lights and did it again. Sure enough, most every time I cycled the cylinder I saw a spark in the firing pin area.
This is a new revolver, and the logical mind tell me the spark is being produced by some metal surfaces rubbing together. As I use it, no doubt the "rubbing" will wear down - and eventually there will be no more spark.
Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? I've not had the thing apart, so have no idea what the "guts" look like. But I've never noticed this sort of thing on any other revolver. Is this normal - or is my 642 haunted????
This is a new revolver, and the logical mind tell me the spark is being produced by some metal surfaces rubbing together. As I use it, no doubt the "rubbing" will wear down - and eventually there will be no more spark.
Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? I've not had the thing apart, so have no idea what the "guts" look like. But I've never noticed this sort of thing on any other revolver. Is this normal - or is my 642 haunted????