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Originally Posted by richardw
As mentioned a call to S&W customer service will get a wrench sent to you. I believe it requires a 7/16 wrench. There is a you tube video of a ground down wrench being used to adjust the cap. Easy to do if you have a grinder. I sure don't.
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My caliper measures the width across the flats as 0.417", so a 7/16 (0.438") wrench should work. So would an 11mm (0.433"). But the flats are only 3/32 wide. That would take a LOT of grinding to thin down any standard wrench that far.
I've discovered that the collet wrench for my ~50 year old Dremel tool will work, although at 0.445 it's a bit wider than I'd prefer. And it's an obsolete Dremel for which spare wrenches are no longer available, and I don't want to put my only sample in a range bag.
Do people use Loctite on this nut? One of the weaker versions that doesn't take heat to break loose? Or will the vibrations of shooting break anything loose, so that we just have to have a wrench available for periodic maintenance?