Rattling 625

[Nightowl]

The hammer block needs to move freely to work properly. It is the only part in the Smith revolvers that does moves enough to rattle.

 

[R*E]

I can hear barely hear the rattle in my 625-3 if I shake it really hard. I can't hear it in my 686 or either of my 66s.

 

[S&WIowegan]

I just opened the box of a new Performance Center 327, 2" barrel, and the rattle is tremendous, to the point that I initially thought there was a lose screw or something inside the wood grip. Despite having read many here say "it's normal", I still cannot fathom how S&W ships, by design, an expensive gun like this making this sort of noise. I must say I am actually kind of upset. I find the noise mind boggling. Literally, it sounds like a left-over screw inside the wood grip cavity. The noise is not faint at all. I also have a 5" Performance Center 327, and after this experience I shook it and noticed that it too rattles pretty good. But it is not as noise as the 2" one. You might as well attach a little bell to the bottom of the grip.

Do you know how to take the stocks off?? Before you get your shorts all knotted up, take the stocks off and see if anything falls out!

 

[Bobmar]

What S&WIowegan said. Look inside. Bob

 

[chief38]

Hotlead:

You should not own a gun that rattles! There is something drastically amiss and you should package it up immediately and send it to me. Because I don't want to see you suffer too long i am even willing to send you $100 Cash American Dollars to help you out. Just funnin' ya!

Like the other fellas said, it's the hammer block & perfectly normal. Only worry when it stops rattling.......

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[Edu]

Hotlead:

You should not own a gun that rattles! There is something drastically amiss and you should package it up immediately and send it to me. Because I don't want to see you suffer too long i am even willing to send you $100 Cash American Dollars to help you out. Just funnin' ya!

Like the other fellas said, it's the hammer block & perfectly normal. Only worry when it stops rattling.......

Welcome to the Forum!

Good Lord you are so funny... I don't mind you wasting your time, but why waste other people's time? First of, I know perfectly well the difference between defect and poor design. If something does not fit the former cathegory, you don't automatically call it 'normal'. Clearly these S&W revolvers have a spectrum of rattling noise wider than normal. Like I said in my OP, the 5" 327 I got at the same time has some noise, but it's acceptable. Others report the same, some report no rattling noise or very faint noise. But a cursory Google search of the topic brings up a lot of people taking their time to write online asking "Is this normal??" That by itself is a good indication of something amiss. If you still do not get it, the hope is that you don't work on engineering design of any kind.

To all of those with constructive feedback: Thanks. S&WIowegan, I opened the grip, unfortunately nothing obvious there. The noise is inside the heart of the action. I will send it back to S&W. I don't have the proper screw drivers to open the side plate without marring the screws.

 

[oldbrownhat]

So, has anyone else with one of these, or any S&W revolver, noticed a good rattle in the works?

Well, darn it, you forced me to drag my 625-8 out of the safe and give it a shake. And, by George, it does have a faint rattle in there somewhere, probably the hammer block, as has been suggested. Here's the "offending" part highlighted in red:

(Pic is of a S&W 500 from a thread on "detail strip" on the forum that I can't find now, but the internals are the same.)

However, if you hear it rattling when you fire it, you may have a problem