Sideplate Issue

[DT75]

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Update

I removed the hammer block and put the plate back on and it works perfect. Put the hammer block back in and it binds when tightened. Although not visible, I am suspecting it might be bent just enough to be the problem. I am hoping I can get a replacement part from S&W.

Why not just leave the hammer block out of the gun?
Removing it won't affect the functionality of the revolver at all.
I have removed it from all of my S&W's. (2 w/ hammer mounted f.p., 4 w/ frame mounted f.p.)

And it is a hammer block, S&W revolvers do not have a transfer bar!
Even in the newer frames with frame mounted firing pin, the hammer hits the back of the firing pin directly, not via a transfer bar.

 

[bountyhunter]

Why not just leave the hammer block out of the gun?
Removing it won't affect the functionality of the revolver at all.
I have removed it from all of my 6 S&W's.

Me too, except for the two guns I use for defense (just to keep them 100% stock).

But I really get yelled at on forums whenever I suggest leaving them out.....

 

[sw282]

Just throw the hammer block AWAY.. Problem solved.. After all, it's YOUR gun...

 

[wrangler5]

Well, it's your gun as long as you own it, but very few of us own a gun until the end of the gun's life. And once it moves on to a new owner, it becomes their gun from which you removed a safety device. Now there is only a tiny chance that the absence of the hammer block would ever be the cause of an injury (S&Ws were pretty drop safe for decades before the device was added.) But a new hammer block would be an incredibly cheap investment to make to insure that there was NEVER any blowback on you or your heirs from removing it.