Save a stainless S&W

[Belgian686]

I wonder how far a stainless S&W revolver can get before it can not be saved at all anymore ?

I am not talking about blowing it up with an excessive handload, or very bad abuse, hitting objects with it like one would do with a hammer, … but I rather mean using it without proper maintenance, or neglecting it, recovering a stainless steel gun in water after a very long period of time, never cleaning, … the list can go on. And then of course, how it was resued.

Could we see pictures with a short story, before and after pics … ? Something like ‘still alive and back for duty'.

B686

[longranger]

629 Polishing question

Scroll down and look at what this guy did with before S.S. revolver. amazing.

[Bullseye Smith]

How about from this:




To this:

[CAJUNLAWYER]

WHO DID THAT TO A REVOLVER He ought to be banned from ever owning a firearm ever again.

[Tracer_Bullet]

I second CajunLawyer's remarks! I'm amazed that that poor gun could be salvaged after that kind of mistreatment.

[tac803]

Whoever did that is living proof that a Dremel tool and a Smith and Wesson should never be in the same room at the same time!

Nice rescue job!

[Flint Ridge]

Wow, I think that pretty much sums it up, it can be rescued.

Now moving forward Bullseye we probably should have had a "WARNING - GRAPHIC PICTURE" ahead of time - some of us can't handle carnage like that

[Belgian686]

Bullseye,

This one was from excessive abuse to an amazing salvage. Great job.

Thanks all for your replies.

B686

[suckersrus]

I have a 637 that looks pretty ratty.

I carried it for years, in pockets, tool box, tackle box, car trunk, back pack, even holsters.

I carried it while boating, mowing, flying, working, hunting, hiking, fishing, biking, even watching TV.

After I replaced it with a 360PD my wife asked that I put laser grips on it for her.

Now, it goes places it never went before, BINGO in a purse!

I have not tried to clean it up. I read somewhere it has a coating.

As long as it works.

[stantheman86]

I read that S&W saved a .38 J-frame that was found in the rubble of the World Trade Center, returned to the NYPD officer by using the gun's serial to track who it was registered to, and he sent it back to S&W and they refurbed it for free.......there was no mention of a model number but I assume a Model 60, since it was the most recent J-frame approved for duty with the NYPD. I would love to see a before and after picture. If it is still being carried on duty by the officer that would be awesome.

I have a pretty beat up ex-PD 64-3 that shows decades of hard carry, but I would not bother to "save" it, it was a working duty gun, and I still use it for a CC gun I don't have to sweat blood about nicking or dinging it up going in and out of my glove box. Not all of them have to be pretty, they just have to work!