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S&W 4506 help

Lumpy3
Got one from a longtime Bud for cleaning, shooting, cleaning and return to him.

Thought he was bringing the latest 1911 clone (OH, JOY!)with which I'm almost intimate, - but no, it's a 4506. Beautiful piece..highly polished, and I can't wait to shoot it...

PROBLEM: no manual. I want to throughly clean her up, polish the innards, etc...

Can anyone please "talk" me thru it, send me detailed fieldstrip/reassembly info, or refer me to diagrams and instructions online?

Thanks in advance!

[:D]

"Without the 2nd Amendment, we'd have lost the 1st."

Lump

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  • JERRYGSKI
    http://swcustomersupport.vista.com/contentbuilder/layout.php3?contentPath=content/00/01/31/06/03/userdirectory53.content

    IS THE LINK FOR THE OWNERS MANUALS FROM SMITH, HOPE IT HELPS!

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  • Lumpy3
    Thanky, J-Ski...
    I'll go there now.

    Lump

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    Widow: "Officer, I couldn't turn off the electric knife.." [;)]

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  • Lumpy3
    Jerry- I see nothing for the 45XX series...

    this is a relatively low SN, I think: TDL6XXX

    know the proper series for the S&W info?

    any Idea how old it may be? It's REALLY "cherry"..

    I know S&W wheelguns MUCH better than autos...

    Thanks again!

    Lump

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  • rufe-snow
    quote:Originally posted by Lumpy3
    Jerry- I see nothing for the 45XX series...

    this is a relatively low SN, I think: TDL6XXX

    know the proper series for the S&W info?

    any Idea how old it may be? It's REALLY "cherry"..

    I know S&W wheelguns MUCH better than autos...

    Thanks again!

    Lump

    slabsidesfan



    Are you sure about the second letter, i.e. "D" in the prefix? The S & W Book lists the prefix as being "TBL" for pistols made in 1987. But it also notes that the 4506's were made between 1988 & 1999? Maybe your pistol is a transition model of some kind?

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  • Lumpy3
    Thanks, r-s but it is:

    TDL6XXX
    Mod 4506

    is it safe to assume it field-strips like a similarly-sprung 1911 (with full length guide rod, no barrel bushing, and no provision for use of a takedown tool) ??

    slabsidesfan
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  • richbug
    Pull the slide back until the slide stop notch lines up with the slide stop pin, pull out the pin. Pull off the slide forward. When you reassemble, you will need to depress three little levers at the rear of the frame to get it to slide the slide on the whole way. To remove the grips, drive out the sinlgle pin at the butt of the gun. Everything pretty much falls apart then.

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  • Lumpy3
    owe-Kay... that worked....and both eyes still do, and no parts explosion :)


    The original grips are replace by Hogue wraparounds, secured at the heel by a screw on each side...after removing them,
    -do I (of good mechanical aptitude) need four more hands to further disassemble/reassemble?

    Thanks... :)

    Lump


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  • Lumpy3
    glitchtime, maybe, richbug-

    I presume (I KNOW better than that, most of the time) that as the mag is out, and I retract the slide to remove the slide stop, the hammer will go back, and should not fall, as it is "cocked"...

    Problem: those three little "kickups".... replacing the reassembled slide, and lowering the ejector first (the longest, and on the left, as viewed from above, right??), the slide as first did not want to go on, as the ejector, even lowered as much as I could lower it, still impeded the rearward progress of the slide, that is, until I inserted an empty magazine and then gently lowered the hammer... THEN, the ejector lowered all the way, second (RIGHT-most) lowered and allowed the slide to pass, but the one on the right closest to the hammer did not...I've stopped there.

    hints?
    THANK YOU!

    slabsidesfan
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  • Lumpy3
    richbug-please disregard my last transmission....
    I guess I just wasn't holdin' my mouth right....

    on the third attempt, after a coupla smokes to calm my nerves, it went together just as if I'd known exactly what I was doing...

    Thanks for the assist....

    Lump

    ...from "Thoughts from the Gunner's Guru", Mr. Jeff Cooper,
    from Guns and Ammo, November 2004:

    "The 1911 pistol continues to hold up better in the sandbox than any other sidearm in use. Of course, it must be kept clean, which is not always easy. The old 1911 continues along its way to replacing the dog as man's best friend."
    AMEN and AMEN. and thanks, Colonel Cooper, and SEMPER FI !

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