Colt question.. Damage or normal wear.. pic
Had the Anaconda out today. To cold to play much and quite after 30 rounds.
When I begin to break it down for a through cleaning I noticed a mark where the hammer is striking the frame above the firing pin. It has not been dried fired by me since I have owned it.
The damage is located in the red shaded part of the photo. A closer look at the mark is in the right red box. The photos make it appears much larger than the mark actually is.
Is this normal wear or something that should be looked at more closely?
The mark is less than two thousands of an inch deep and about 3/16" long. The serial number is in the MM28### range.
When I begin to break it down for a through cleaning I noticed a mark where the hammer is striking the frame above the firing pin. It has not been dried fired by me since I have owned it.
The damage is located in the red shaded part of the photo. A closer look at the mark is in the right red box. The photos make it appears much larger than the mark actually is.
Is this normal wear or something that should be looked at more closely?
The mark is less than two thousands of an inch deep and about 3/16" long. The serial number is in the MM28### range.
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Normal. There has to be some space between the hammer, transfer bar and frame or the transfer bar wouldn't work. That there should be nothing to worry about. If it really bothers you, you could always polich the hammer face with some jewelers rouge. It doesn't need to be ground, just polished. I'm no expert so that's just my humble opinion. 0 -
Get rid of it .....cheap!! 0 -
My opinion?...
No its not normal...
Opionion after describing to classic?..
Not normal..
He will look at this thread tomorrow and see if his opinion stays the same or changes....0 -
Still shoot good? Still no ftf? NORMAL!!!! Keep it well fed, and well cleaned. 0 -
i love my s&w [:D]
steel contracts in the cold, keep the safe queens in the safe. get a s&w0 -
...Does not look normal to me. Appears to be hitting on the left side, not centered. Pic of the of the hammer face might shed a little light on this.
... A guess here, but looks as if maybe the hammer is not tight and following it's proper arch of fall, or the hammer is "wedged" someway hitting high on the left side; again not following it's proper arch...a guess only...Larry will probably know...[;)]0 -
Ok here is the hammer face.
and a closer look.
Took it with me to a gun shop that I was headed to anyway.
The Smithy took a look at under a powerful lighted magnifying glass and said it was nothing to worry about.
I ask what caused the damage. His answer was for me to look at it closely. The raised line down the center of the hammer was the parting line of the die from when it was cast. The die was not perfectly lined up when the cast was made thus causing the left side of the hammer to be a thousandth or so "higher" than the right. Causing the left side of the hammer to strike the frame harder on that side.
If I was really concerned about it, a fine small flat file across the
face of the hammer a few times would make it even across the entire face. But since that part of the hammer is not machined at the factory. It will not hurt a thing to leave it as is.
So that is what I will do for the time being rather than taking a file to it.
Thanks everyone for the input.
And NO my daughter will not sale "her gun" cheap..[;)]
Switch to a Smith.. Not hardly. I had a .357 stainless 66 Smith once. You could load it and pull the trigger six times and it might have fired anywhere from one to six rounds. You never know if it would fire if the trigger was pulled or not. Got rid of it and will never own another Smith.0
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