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04-14-2014, 06:29 PM
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Just had to say......
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04-14-2014, 07:17 PM
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Just beautiful. Love the engraved ones. (I still have your name on the 4").
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04-14-2014, 08:31 PM
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I have just recently bought a lot of basket case safety hammerless and top breaks. I just finished a safety hammerless that had been refinished in nickel, very badly. Its trigger guard was also plated. I tore it completely down and stripped the nickel with Brownells nickel remover. It was really pitted and had many broken springs. Did you know a ballpoint pen spring cut down works great for a firing pin spring? I also used it for the safety spring. I replaced the broken firing pin too.
It took me 4 days of polishing to get the pits out. I reblued the whole gun and it looks great! Looking at the inside of this gun is like looking at a great painting! Whoever thought of the mechanics of this was a genius.
My next one I started today. It was blue at one point in its life. It is rusted shut before I started. Someone took a hammer and mashed the barrel end. I cut the barrel to 2" and it will be a bicycle gun! I can't wait!!!
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04-15-2014, 09:28 AM
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You should take some pictures on the before, progress, and finish. That would make an interesting post. Congrats for the restoration.
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04-15-2014, 03:41 PM
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I didn't think about photos before. I have some grips coming and when they get here I will take some. I can get some before photos of the one I started tomorrow.
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I got interested in the old ones a few years ago and now have two S&W 38s. One is a safety hammerless. Wonder where the lemon squeezers moniker originated? I know the SW 38 might not be a serious self defense piece, but after shooting it, I bet it about equal to a 380. What do you think?
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04-29-2014, 09:10 PM
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How did you learn how to do this?
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04-30-2014, 02:56 PM
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I learned because I was a mechanic/machinist for my career. I always worked on machinery. And after all a gun is just another machine. I love the mechanics of firearms. It is relatively easy to work on old firearms now with the web. Just Google what you want to work on such as S&W safety hammerless disassembly and go down to what you want. I went to David Chicones sight and he has a book that shows the parts and explains the assembly/disassembly.
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