Thanks Georgia, and I will send him one or two. I just copied what Iggy had to say about it in another section:

QUOTE=Iggy;1119959]Well Boys and Girls, If I can do it, you can too.
I am danged handy with barbed wire but I ain't no gun crank by anybody's definition, but I got her did.

I watched the link below a couple of times and tied into my wife's 642.

YouTube - S&W Internal Lock Removal

I did a little cussin' getting the lock thingy out, but puttin' the plug in it's place warn't hard at all.

I took out the flag and the lock and the plug matches up purty as a speckled pup. John put a brushed finish on mine and it matches the screws and cylinder release just like it was factory made.

If you got any reservations about trying John's little invention, git over them and git to it.

John, Thank you Sir, for coming up with this fix for the wart on the side of the newer Smiths.

Regards,
Iggy[/QUOTE]