Thread: Today's riddle: Model 60 hammers & triggers
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Old 10-13-2020, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by two-bit cowboy View Post
Roy Jinks' book, History of Smith & Wesson, clearly identifies the early evolution of Model 60 hammers and triggers:

- stainless steel that wasn't "durable" enough

- color case hardened (were those carbon steel?)

- heat treated stainless steel that was then flash chrome finished
I always thought the flash chromed parts were hardened Carbon Steel. Why a need to flash chrome stainless whether heat treated or not?
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