That really makes sense. Thank you for the expertise. I'll wait and see what Smith offers, but I'm more inclined to just fix it and get back to shooting it.
I will say that even though I'm mechanically inclined it was challenging to take it apart, and understand what I was looking at,and put it back together. Very satisfying. Singularly, the small spring in the hand kicked my ***! I could't find anything online to help me with that one!