ExRanger714
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This is a follow on to my "Help--28-2 now pile of parts" thread. Sorry for no pics but I just can't seem to get the how-to down.
I bought (gave too much) for a S prefix M28-2 in really bad shape but I thought I saw a diamond in the rough. It was rusty, pitted, suffering from excessive endshake, had a broken yoke button (missing a 90 degree chunk) and had a MIM trigger in it. I put a forged trigger (for fear of getting it back new MIM or getting a MIM replacement which I did not want) in it before it went back to S&W
Sent it to S&W for rehab and they received it May 9. Got the estimate back June 11 and I got it back today, July 18.
They charged me $396 for the following:
Repair excess cylinder play and correct timing
Turn barrel (barrel eroded)
Reset barrel/cylinder gap to factory spec.
Recut forcing cone and correct timing.
Replace hand and springs as needed
Replace yoke, polish and blend to frame
Polish and reblue
Check function and range test
They noted this is an obsolete model
They had a yoke on hand and it cost $63 and it was included in the second labor charge
The monetary damage: (this is how they itemized it)
Estimate and range test $45
1 hour labor at $90 per hour
Oversize hand $13.55
.7 hour labor and new yoke $63 (yes, it seems I got a little free labor or something)
Polish and reblue $170
Shipping $13.00 and .91 cents sales tax
$395 and change
Came in an appropriately sized unmarked brown corrugated lift top box in a piece of S&W paper packaged in a FEDEX box.
Estimate by Scott Dube, bill by Roz Sousa, smithed by M. Belanger
They threw in gratis a set of current issue diamond target grips with speedloader cuts.
Impressions:
Nice folk to deal with!
Looks great except for a bit of side plate logo lost in polishing.
Address stamp and other numbers/stampings intact.
Finish looks blacker that blue but it is uniform and seems nicely done.
Barrel looks dead on and without cant.
New windage screw installed.
Feels like a new mainspring but I haven't checked.
Timing is spot on.
Came back with my forged trigger.
I am satisfied and by the way S&W annual shutdown 20 July to 6 August this year.
I bought (gave too much) for a S prefix M28-2 in really bad shape but I thought I saw a diamond in the rough. It was rusty, pitted, suffering from excessive endshake, had a broken yoke button (missing a 90 degree chunk) and had a MIM trigger in it. I put a forged trigger (for fear of getting it back new MIM or getting a MIM replacement which I did not want) in it before it went back to S&W
Sent it to S&W for rehab and they received it May 9. Got the estimate back June 11 and I got it back today, July 18.
They charged me $396 for the following:
Repair excess cylinder play and correct timing
Turn barrel (barrel eroded)
Reset barrel/cylinder gap to factory spec.
Recut forcing cone and correct timing.
Replace hand and springs as needed
Replace yoke, polish and blend to frame
Polish and reblue
Check function and range test
They noted this is an obsolete model
They had a yoke on hand and it cost $63 and it was included in the second labor charge
The monetary damage: (this is how they itemized it)
Estimate and range test $45
1 hour labor at $90 per hour
Oversize hand $13.55
.7 hour labor and new yoke $63 (yes, it seems I got a little free labor or something)
Polish and reblue $170
Shipping $13.00 and .91 cents sales tax
$395 and change
Came in an appropriately sized unmarked brown corrugated lift top box in a piece of S&W paper packaged in a FEDEX box.
Estimate by Scott Dube, bill by Roz Sousa, smithed by M. Belanger
They threw in gratis a set of current issue diamond target grips with speedloader cuts.
Impressions:
Nice folk to deal with!
Looks great except for a bit of side plate logo lost in polishing.
Address stamp and other numbers/stampings intact.
Finish looks blacker that blue but it is uniform and seems nicely done.
Barrel looks dead on and without cant.
New windage screw installed.
Feels like a new mainspring but I haven't checked.
Timing is spot on.
Came back with my forged trigger.
I am satisfied and by the way S&W annual shutdown 20 July to 6 August this year.
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