Posted: 9/16/2012 11:03:28 PM EDT
| Anyone have trouble with the stainless slides rusting? And if so, did s&w do anything about it? |
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Ok i finally got around to calling s&w and they sent me a shipping label to send it to them. How long did they take to take care of that? Im just wondering if i will be without my favorite carry gun for weeks, months....?? They are usually pretty fast about these things...couple weeks, maybe. |
| I sent in a M&P 15-22 recently and the turn around was extremely fast. It took less than two weeks from the day I shipped to receive the gun back. The only negative was they didn't tell me what they did to repair it. It just said "updated to current spec". Best I can tell they only changed the bolt. |
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That sounds good, I can deal with a couple weeks, especially since they are barely an Hr away from me.
I don't see them repairing my slide, it has some pits in the finish. I'm hoping they will just send me a new one. Thanks for the responses, ill let you guys know how it goes! |
| Funny... I was just considering contacting them about the rust on my 9c slide. It's only 2.5yr old and has only been carried for about a year but the scales/scallops are rusting. I've just been coating the rust in CLP and forgetting about it. It hasn't got any worse since I noticed it ~9mo ago. |
| Yeah mine has been like this for a while, but im finally getting around to getting it taken care of. I know s&w had problems with the coating on the stainless slide for certain production runs. When i spoke with them yesterday, I was told that this should be covered under the lifetime waranty. SO i figure if they will warranty the slide, why not send it in. It just bothers me because i take good care of my firearms and it just looks like crap. Im sending it out tomorrow, hoping for good news from them. |
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For some reason I was thing that stainless steel didn't rust. Anyone know if you can have the same finish Glock puts on theirs guns put on the M&P? SS definitely can rust, it's just less likely to rust. Glock uses Tenifer which is a tweaked nitrocarbonization process but there are numerous very similar processes available. Melonite is a generic name for the process. Sorry, I'm not sure who offers these coatings to joe schmoe but I know I've seen them. |
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For some reason I was thing that stainless steel didn't rust. Anyone know if you can have the same finish Glock puts on theirs guns put on the M&P? SS definitely can rust, it's just less likely to rust. Glock uses Tenifer which is a tweaked nitrocarbonization process but there are numerous very similar processes available. Melonite is a generic name for the process. Sorry, I'm not sure who offers these coatings to joe schmoe but I know I've seen them. WMD Guns does Melonite and nickel boron. H&M Metal Processing is the OE nitrider for S&W, |
| I got my m&p back from Smith & Wesson yesterday. They had it for about 3 weeks. I had no contact with them at all while they had my pistol. I was happy to see when i got it back i had a brand new slide installed. So hopefully it will be good to go. Not one part of this transaction, including shipping, cost me anything at all. I cant say enough for S&W customer service, they have always come through for me when i needed them to. I am a very happy customer and will be buying more products from them in the future! |