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Old 05-23-2020, 09:26 PM
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I was gifted a model 60 and looks like the side plate was removed and reinstalled a couple times poorly. Its stainless so has anyone tried to clean the joint up ? Looks to be on the frame and not the sideplate. I dont want to make things worse but would like to get the nobs smoothed out
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Old 05-23-2020, 09:41 PM
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Take the sideplate off and gently tap down the high spots with a small polished face hammer or hammer and polished flat ended punch. Then blend that area with Scotchbrite.
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Old 05-23-2020, 11:21 PM
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Kind of what I was thinking since its displaced metal. May give this a shot with a smooth faced body hammer.
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Old 05-24-2020, 01:44 AM
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Take the sideplate off and gently tap down the high spots with a small polished face hammer or hammer and polished flat ended punch. Then blend that area with Scotchbrite.
Worked perfect ! Thanks for the tip.
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Kind of what I was thinking since its displaced metal. May give this a shot with a smooth faced body hammer.
I agree with Protocall except you'll never get the high spots evenly flat with a hammer or hammer and punch, and will end up with some punch marks and low spots.

You need a small perfectly flat piece of hardened, mirror polished 3/8" wide steel punch ('dolly') with rounded edges and no corners on the surface facing the gun. You can hammer on that without dinging or making low spots. After hammering, use it to burnish the high spots flatter. Might even need a little final flattening (evening) by sanding with 2000 grit wrapped over the end of the dolly. Do all of this with side plate installed!

Then restore original satin finish with Scotchbrite.
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Old 05-24-2020, 02:17 AM
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I agree with Protocall except you'll never get the high spots evenly flat with a hammer or hammer and punch, and will end up with some punch marks and low spots.

You need a small perfectly flat piece of hardened, mirror polished 3/8" wide steel punch ('dolly') with rounded edges and no corners on the surface facing the gun. You can hammer on that without dinging or making low spots. After hammering, use it to burnish the high spots flatter. Might even need a little final flattening (evening) by sanding with 2000 grit wrapped over the end of the dolly. Do all of this with side plate installed!

Then restore original satin finish with Scotchbrite.
Used a polished body hammer and it came out pretty good. Just have to polish a little now
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A grey scotchbrite pad (#07448) does a great job in duplicating the factory buff pattern. I get them at a regular auto/parts supply (not a auto parts chain store).
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Old 05-24-2020, 03:54 AM
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Bravo! Since you had a body hammer, you clearly knew how to use it.
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Old 05-24-2020, 04:00 AM
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A grey scotchbrite pad (#07448) does a great job in duplicating the factory buff pattern. I get them at a regular auto/parts supply (not a auto parts chain store).
I used a maroon pad and it looks good but no idea what a true original finish looks like. I went front to back of the frame for pattern and around the circumference of the cylinder. It seems too fine of a grain.
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I'm afraid it's ruined. Such ashame. I'll take one for the team. I'll donate $200 to take it off your hands.
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Nice work and advice. Looks much better,
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Old 05-24-2020, 03:58 PM
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Great job, I must admit I had doubts that the hammer method would work but work it did. Congrats on a fine job, well done.
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Old 05-24-2020, 05:01 PM
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Since the metal was just basically pushed up and not missing it seems to have worked. Not sure how this happens. Gently replacing sideplate doesnt damage anything.
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Nice job. Thats the beauty of SS. No rebluing. You can work wonders with a little elbow grease and a Scotchbrite.

I picked up a dirty 2-1/2” 66-1 a couple years ago for what I thought was a bargain price of $400. When i got home the grin on my face was wiped away when I found the dirt was pitting on one side around the edge of the Pachmayrs it was wearing. Was about sick. After some coaching here I broke out some wet sandpaper and a backer and went to it. Didn’t turn out half bad, I think. Its got a nick on the front sight and the end of the barrel that I haven’t decided to fix or let be
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