Just pulled the inspection plate on my 627 to make sure it had oil (hadn’t looked since new) and found the plate screws had loctite from the factory. Did S&W think those screws were going to fly out and hurt someone? It gives me pause to think of how QC found this necessary and not get my barrel clocked to high noon

I have had enough plate screws back out to appreciate a bit of coating to snug them up a bit. Note too, the yoke retention screw, being hollowed out for a spring and plunger, is fairly fragile and easily broken by what would otherwise be a normal tightening for a standard screw. Given that, a little red gum is welcome. Cordially.

Agreed. Just surprised to see something not deemed necessary for many many years. Might just be cheesed off that the barrel is obviously over rotated and the ejector rod isn’t straight. Would have preferred the loctite had been omitted and the barrel and ejector rod had been straight. The gun works well and I do enjoy shooting it,

Yeah, I hear you. My older S&W revolvers had solid yoke retention screws that were individually fit to length (long enough to retain the yoke, but not so long as to be a drag on it). Because they were solid, they could be torqued down tight enough to keep them from backing out without fear of breaking them. No red gum needed.

It was nice hearing back from you.

My 1966 circa model 15's yoke retention screw tends to back out. I've put thousands of rounds through that revolver and it's my first gun. For me, locktite on revolver screws is a blessing. YMMV

It's not unusual for someone to come home from the Range, and find a Screw missing from their Gun. Since the Sideplate is not Frequently Opened I would Prefer the thread Locker be on the Sideplate Screws Rather than having to Call S&W to order another one.

Nothing new had a new M19 issued to me in 1978 and it too has an overtightened barrel and locktite on the screws of the sideplate. I carried it for a year before my department got around to sending it in to be fixed.

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I fully agree. My Revo's are in the carry rotation and the least carried/shot Revo gets 200-300 rounds thru her a year and the most carried gets at least 1000-1500K her, and usually more. Both my M629 and M625 had the cylinder release screws back out in under 400 rounds and the M625JM exhibited misfires/light strikes with self defense "light primer" strikes with the strain screw within 500 rounds. Both also had sideplate and yoke screws back out under recoil as well. And *Both* are/were at one time my Woods Gun(s) and any (malfunction) is unacceptable in any carry role but especially in a Woods-Gun when I have my girls with me. Both were fully disassembled completely, every screw was de-greased gently with dental tools/pics, and then every screw got (2) dabs of purple loCTite; then every part and finally every screw was re-torqued to two hairs past snug.

I've yet to have one failure in either with "Full-House" Underwood, Buffalo Bore, my loads, or any other factory load thru either of them since the above aforementioned disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly/torquing with 2 dabs of purple LoCTite.

That said, My 70's Manufactured M-36's, 80's Manufactured Colt "Agent", and 85' Manufactured M29 Lew Horton Special have had a bevy of "hot-snot" loads thru them and none have even so much have had a sight, yoke, side-plate, cylinder release, nor strain screw back out to any degree.

Below are both the M625JM and M629 that have exhibited screw back out's in factory/sans thread locking "LoCTite" present. Both are Sunrise Reliable now though.. And both with the "88's" removed as well..