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S&W Hand Ejectors: 1896 to 1961 All 5-Screw & Vintage 4-Screw SWING-OUT Cylinder REVOLVERS, and the 35 Autos and 32 Autos


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I have 2 of the 36-10's with the case colored frames. One 2" the other 3". If I had a project Smith that I wanted to have the frame case colored could it be done? Say a model 10 snubby
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Certainly. Doug Turnbull color cases many frames. And there are others.
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Unless he has recently changed, Turnbull does not do S&W's. The problem with doing a revolver frame is that they tend to warp during the high heat of the process.
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Doug Turnbull is the guy to go to.

He did all of the Smith and Wesson Performance Center Heritage edition revolvers.





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Case coloring is NOT the same as case colored hardening. Coloring can be done with acid so as not to warp via heat.
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Turnbull wouldn't do one for me. It's one thing to case harden a DA during the manufacturing phase, another to disassemble/harden/reassemble.

SA's? You betcha.
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Turnbull told me that they would not do any work on modern da S&W revolvers , not even polishing.
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colt SAA......

I'd trade on of my 36-10 for that gun pictured.???
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Case coloring with out the surface hardness can and is done.
The same process can be used, the bone/wood charcoal pack, the furnace, water quench, etc.
It's a balance of temp, time in furnace and quench techniques to get the colors w/o the hardness.

The advantage is less or no warping of the metal parts. No backers or reinforcement pieces needed to be inserted. Assembly was reletively easy though once in a while a part would warp. But the soft, non hardened surface made for easy refit.

The bad side of it is that the soft parts on a tightly fitted mechanism can gall and many started to show up with that problem.
Some hardness was needed especially on the low carbon steel shotgun frames and parts.

Ruger used a proprietary method to color their carbon steel SA frames. Not a case color/hardening method at all. A chemical coloring.
(Something similar was used on the Parker repro SxS shotguns from the late 80/early90's period.)
Turnbull tried to sell his CCH method and business to Ruger in the early 90's for use on their pistols but no taker.
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