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Originally Posted by somebrains
Check the surfaces of your trigger and hammer.
The plated parts on the 66's just don't wear as nice as case hardened parts.
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The plated hammer and trigger on older stainless models ARE case hardened.
S&W simply took standard COLOR case hardened parts and gave them a flash hard chrome plated coating to make them look like the rest of the stainless parts and to help in rust resistance.
They could have given the parts a non-color case hardened finish, but it was cheaper to just use the same parts as all other S&W's and give them the flash plating.
It was the very early Model 60 and 66 revolvers that had actual stainless steel hammers and trigger that didn't wear like S&W wanted.