686-6 ting noise

[walter o]

I have a 686-6 MIM parts and firing pin in the frame
,when you work the action and the hammer falls ti gives a ting sound . Any way to stop this noise ?

 

[smithra_66]

I have a 686-6 MIM parts and firing pin in the frame
,when you work the action and the hammer falls ti gives a ting sound . Any way to stop this noise ?

Buy another gun?

 

[drumminor2nd]

My 69 does that. It's normal -- a resonating spring or something.

My recommendation is to fire it. You won't notice.

 

[Protocall_Design]

That is probably the mainspring sounding off. Some have more resonance than others.

 

[chief38]

Just an annoying trait some Smiths exhibit-not uncommon. More than likely due to the combination of heat treatment process, springs and grip material. Sometimes changing springs and grips changes the sound a bit-sometimes not worth the effort. Cheap enough to try if it really bothers you. I find it is usually on 1990’s on up models and aside from being a little tinny - nothing to be concerned with.

 

[Ignatz]

My 686-6 does too. When I bought the 5" Pro Series gun new, the shop owner noticed it too and told me that the action was so perfect that nothing was getting in the way of a perfect hammer fall. Not a ting, but a ring!
He was smiling, I was smiling and I still own the 686.
That was 15? years ago at The Handgunner Shop in Topton Pa. The wife and I stopped into his shop a couple of weeks ago to say hi to Randy. Great shop!

 

[chief38]

BTW, for what it's worth I've found this tinny sound thing more prevalent on stainless guns than their carbon steel brothers.

 

[s&wchad]

Completely normal. Ignore it when dry-firing. I can promise you won’t notice it when firing live ammunition!

 

[OLDSTER]

My 686-4 has made that noise since new (1996). Stainless steel on steel. You wouldn't want it to make a "thud". So the sound that concerns you is normal.

 

[gwpercle]

Two easy answers :
1.) Don't dry fire the gun
2.) Use Snap Caps

What you hear is a metal on metal hit ... stop doing it or cushion the blow so you don't hit metal on metal .

I was taught to use my thumb and ease the hammer down .
Snapping my old Man's revolver could get you a trip to the wood shed ...or worse a Lecture !

Gary

 

[walter o]

well I found the cure . Slip 2 small "O"rings on the hammer spring equallty spaces .No more ting the rubber interferes with the harmonics .By the way with the grips off the frame no sound guess they acted like a sound box
with the harmonics
Protocal thanks for the explanation

 

[BLUEDOT37]

Kudos, that's an interesting fix, my 686-6 does it too, but darn if I'll be adding any rubber parts inside my revolver.

I'll ignore the sound as I live fire it more than I dry fire it.

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[Jimbo41]

For me, with intimate knowledge of less than a dozen revolvers, it seems to happen most with revolvers that have been “tuned” and the hammer spring tension reduced. Just what I’ve observed.

 

[Shark Bait]

It probably has an aftermarket main spring. I noticed it after installing spring kits. The Wilson Combat main springs don't seem to do that.

 

[Laketime]

That ting is only present with the MIM parts.It is the sound that the hammer makes when it drops . The older models that have the hammer nose ( firing pin ) makes a more solid sound when the hammer drops.It is a combination of the MIM hammer hitting the frame mounted firing pin.

 

[JcMack]

Rather than resonance I believe it's harmonics. Walter o lives right down the street from me and I can hear him playing his harmonica all the time.

 

[smithra_66]

well I found the cure . Slip 2 small "O"rings on the hammer spring equallty spaces .No more ting the rubber interferes with the harmonics .By the way with the grips off the frame no sound guess they acted like a sound box
with the harmonics
Protocal thanks for the explanation

You actually put foreign pieces of rubber into the action of your S&W because you didn't like the sound it makes when you dry fire it?

Seriously?

 

[sandog]

I have a 686-6 MIM parts and firing pin in the frame
,when you work the action and the hammer falls ti gives a ting sound . Any way to stop this noise ?

Yes. Just make sure you have ammo in it when the hammer falls, you won't hear the ting at all.

 

[Protocall_Design]

You actually put foreign pieces of rubber into the action of your S&W because you didn't like the sound it makes when you dry fire it?

Seriously?

A couple of O rings on the mainspring isn't going to bother anything. They can't go anywhere else, and are just waving around in the air with the spring.

 

[JcMack]

Walter o is a friend of mine (at least he still was when I saw him yesterday) and he's a local gunsmith. He knows more about S&W's and repairing them than 90% of the people on this board. If he's got a fault, it's he's too intense about about perfection. When he asked me last week about the pinging problem my suggestion was turn up the volume on his Victrola before he dry fires the gun. I got not even a chuckle from him.