Posted: 1/21/2014 5:00:36 PM EDT
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For several years, I've carried a 360 with the Scandium frame. It's lightweight, packs a powerful punch, and easy to conceal.
Recently, I noticed that the frame appears damaged. It looks like the guard behind the cylinder is bent. Is this something the S&W can fix without spending a fortune? Or am I boned? It seems mostly cosmetic... there is still enough meat there that rounds aren't going to fall out. But now that I've discovered it, it bothers me. Anyone seen anything like this before? 
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That looks pretty close to factory from where I sit?
Here;'s an allegedly new one on an auction site, and it looks like yours to me. http://picturearchive.gunauction.com/5128072330/10110801/weatherby%20m1a%20scout%20023.jpg_thumbnail1.jpg "Scandium" frames are really an aluminum alloy with some scandium in it. Increases the strength, widely used in aerospace. (The Russians came up with these alloys as Titanium alloy substitutes during the cold war). |
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That particular feature is how the cylinder gets to close without damaging the left side frame IF it were flat like on the right side. Sorta like a wheelchair ramp so the locking pin and the rachet teeth do not wreck the frame.
I see you do actually shoot your gun. If you cleaned it and lubed it, the J frame operates with much less effort. Dry, they are kinda sticky. Grease on the very end of the crane cylinder as it enters the cylinder. Grease on the rachet teeth. Oil on the cylinder/crane rotation points, the crane into frame point, the bolt, the hand (slightly in the frame), and the front end latch. Seeing this gun's dryness, take it to a Smith Smith, have it stripped and lubed inside, and it will operate with half the effort. S&W ships the things bone dry and lube makes a world of difference. |