Smooth as GLASS Apex trigger or even stock!! POLISHING

Bullseye077

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I was tired of the gritty feel of the trigger for the S&W SD line of handguns so I resolved it myself. If you are interested in doing this to yours either polish it yourself or you can send me your internals and I can have them feeling just like mine.. SMOOTH AS GLASS! I have also polished the ramp to a mirror finish to alleviate the problem with casings not feeding properly. :eek:

Here are some pics. I also polished some areas that I will not show as I have to keep SOME secrets ;)

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A warranty on a 299.00 gun? Who cares - polish the **** out of it. You can always get another one for spare parts.
 
That looks great! I wish S&W would make parts available too. Don't understand why they don't.
 
great job on the polishing, much better than most ive seen, and to be honest even mine. i cant see a single swirl in that, makes me want to polish my whole barrel also.
 
Have you thought about polishing your slide as well?! :D

I have thought of doing parts of it but not the whole thing. I want to be able to see if I have to shoot in the sunlight. :cool: I am doing a Taurus PT-140 as we speak and the customer wanted me to do the top of the slide and I told him I would not recommend it if planning on shooting in sunlight. You would be blinded by the shine that I do! LMAO. He then changed his mind and decided to go with the side parts of the slide.
 
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Here is a Taurus PT-140 I am working on for a customer. The feed ramp has some real bad gouges in it so I fixed that and did a little polishing!

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I notice that you didn't polish the barrel hood contact point that would rub against the face of the slide-do you also not polish the breach face of the slide?

I always polish both because the barrel hood makes contact and slides up the face of the slide a little bit and I'll polish anything that has even the most remote chance of slowing things down during the cycling of the slide.

I also always polish the chamber on non-blowback pistols as any friction between the case and the barrel will have NO detrimental impact on the proper cycling of the pistol-it's all controlled by the linkage of the particular pistol.

Polishing the chamber will insure proper functioning of the weapon, eliminating any hangups between the expanding brass case (I don't shoot steel cases) and the chamber of the barrel.
 
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I like to polish the insides of my barrel's with thousands of rounds.
 
I notice that you didn't polish the barrel hood contact point that would rub against the face of the slide-do you also not polish the breach face of the slide?

I always polish both because the barrel hood makes contact and slides up the face of the slide a little bit and I'll polish anything that has even the most remote chance of slowing things down during the cycling of the slide.

I also always polish the chamber on non-blowback pistols as any friction between the case and the barrel will have NO detrimental impact on the proper cycling of the pistol-it's all controlled by the linkage of the particular pistol.

Polishing the chamber will insure proper functioning of the weapon, eliminating any hangups between the expanding brass case (I don't shoot steel cases) and the chamber of the barrel.

I was always told NOT to polish the chamber and to stop just slightly past the peak of the ramp. I could have been misinformed so if anyone here is a LEGIT gunsmith, please let me know if this is wrong. :confused: I usually do polish contacting surfaces. I did not at first and racked the slide back a few times to check functionality and put some scratches on my newly polished barrel hood.. :mad:
 
No, I'm like you, not a LEGIT gunsmith. I'm 60 and I've been fortunate to have been friends over the years with PROFESSIONAL gunsmiths and armorers whose full-time PROFESSION was maintaining the weapons of the SWAT teams they were responsible for. They were "legit" armorers and their guns had polished chambers. Some people say not to polish the chambers of blowback pistols as the friction of the brass case "slowed" things down a bit during cycling. We all know that the case will expand to "fit" perfectly in the chamber and that will slow the extraction of the empty case from the chamber-a function that has NO relationship to a pistol that has anything other than a straight blow-back action.

I will admit that I've been polishing the chambers of many blowback pistols over the last 30 years and all of the guns I've worked on function flawlessly, to include expensive (but not a fan of) pistols like PPK's, etc. No, let me be clear-I HATE PPK's! ;-)

If it's not blowback, the camming of the barrel/action is what determines how things "move" when the gun is fired. A rough chamber just "slows" things down not in relation to the "timing" of the action and I want things to move "smoothly".
 
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