Kunhausen

[truckermike]

Found a copy of Jerry Kuhnhausens "The S&W Revolver A Shop manual" at a yard sale this morning. Wow- amazing how much info is packed into 153 pages! Best 3 bucks Ive ever spent. Heres a question- the book covers S&W revolvers up to aprox 1999. Besides the frame mounted firing pin and new alloys- what else is different in later revolvers?

 

[Bullseye Smith]

If you learn what is in the book, you will have them all covered. I been reading and working on Smith's for years and I can pick the book up and still learn something new. Guess it could be loss of cell brains, no no its brain cells when you get old

, dang ---- what is that name of the book?

 

[truckermike]

Thanks John,

With the sideplate off my 325NG the only real difference I can tell is the firing pin. What is surprising is that he does most of the work with just a properly ground screwdriver-at least the benchstripping.

 

[bountyhunter]

$3 is a steal. I think I paid about $25 for mine. Great book.

 

[dfariswheel]

Some changes not covered by the Kuhnhausen book:

The new MIM internal parts.
Frame mounted firing pins in center-fire models.
The new two-piece barrels.
The new style ejector.
The new style cylinder stop on the frame.
The internal lock.
The S&W-relaxed specifications for end shake and barrel/cylinder gap.

 

[BlackAgnes]

Kuhnhausen

There have been some discussions elsewhere as to whether this individual actually exists.

Anyone know for sure?

 

[haggis]

And did Shakespeare actually write all those plays, or was it Francis Bacon?

Buck

 

[Peter M. Eick]

There was a thread over on the colt forum about a year or so back about Kuhnhausen and after much checking, it was determined he did exist and was around but not in the business anymore.

Go do a search to be sure but that was my memory of it.

 

[Jerry in SC]

Ghost or not, the manuals and DVD's are great.

 

[dfariswheel]

I knew of Kuhnhausen years ago when I was in the business.

Due to so many people asking, I wrote the NRA Dope Bag editors and asked them for information.

They wrote back that Kuhnhausen had retired to Idaho and had died there in the late 1990's-early 2000's.

They said that he was a VERY private individual and preferred to limit his public exposure to the information he had on the back pages of his shop manuals.

From my personal knowledge, he ran a gun store in California?? and was a trainer of gunsmiths, especially for the gun companies.
That's one reason his manuals address gun repair by the factory methods of "doing it RIGHT", and none of the old time "get it to work SOMEHOW" heating and bending or parts making methods.

He was a factory authorized repair service for just about every gun company that sold in America, and was best known as a trade shop that provided top level gunsmithing to other gun shops.

 

[truckermike]

Well if he has passed away I hope wherever he is they have guns and reloading and clear days at the range. He sure left his mark on the world for the better.

 

[acl864]

Originally posted by truckermike:
Well if he has passed away I hope wherever he is they have guns and reloading and clear days at the range. He sure left his mark on the world for the better.

+1 to that.
I just used his S&W Shop Manual to disassemble, clean and re-assmble one of my S&W's. I'm not a gunsmith by a long shot, and don't have a fancy shop or a lot of specialty tools, but using his detailed instructions it was easy. Very useful book. Next time I'm going to use the manual to slick up the trigger pull on my relatively new M642.

 

[ricks1]

If anyone is looking for his manuals I run across this place and they have all them Heritage Gun Books