686-5 sticky extraction

[gnappi]

My snubby 7 shot 686 was bought by me years ago with a minor sticky extraction problem and I just used it as it is intending to "get around to it" at some point.

It's only sticky at one point of the cylinder rotation adding to my supposition that it was the rod. Using a screwdriver and a stable hold I can see a tiny bit of wobble in the old rod adding to my figuring it is a slightly bent extractor rod.

I bought a new rod from S&W and the new one is MUCH worse, it made the gun basically unusable so I put the original rod back in.

Given my slim description is there anything else I can do before I send it back to S&W?

[BLUEDOT37]

Originally Posted by gnappi

It's only sticky at one point of the cylinder rotation adding to my supposition that it was the rod.

Do you mean, with the cylinder open, if you rotate the cylinder & try to raise the extractor at different points in the rotation that it doesn't rise & fall smoothly and sticks, but operates smoothly elsewhere?

I found this problem on a revolver I bought used & first thought it was the extractor rod too but swapping with another revolver's extractor rod didn't fix it.

I FINALLY noticed that the extractor rod's collar was not drilled perfectly in the center which made it bind at certain positions. I installed a new collar on the original assembly I it works fine now.

Might be worth a look at.

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