5 screw S&W K frame LOCKING BOLT

[ccnv]

Is the locking bolt on a 5 screw K different than a current bolt? I have one that needs replacing.

 

[Alk8944]

If you are correctly referring to the plunger in the barrel lug that secures the front of the extractor rod, then current the parts will be correct for your older revolver. The locking bolt and the bolt, you used both terms, are very different! The "bolt" is within the frame and the thumbpiece attaches to it. The plunger unser the barrel is the "locking bolt".

 

[ccnv]

The bolt within the frame that locks the cylinder in place.

 

[Alk8944]

The current bolt should work too.

 

[Muley Gil]

Are we talking about a pre or post WW II K frame? I THINK the threads on the thumbpiece nut are different, but I may be remembering wrong.

 

[steelslaver]

The part that locks the cylinder in place that is operated by the thumb piece is the bolt, the part that locks it from rotating is the cylinder stop. The parts operated by the thumb piece will interchange, the cylinder stop will not. The ones that have a screw in front of trigger guard are different than the later ones without the screw.