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"I get the sideplate off a Smith by tapping on the grip frame"

That's the way I've always done it too. However; I watched the S&W factory gunsmiths lever the sideplate off multiple revolvers including mine while I was sitting there watching them. Again; when I asked why they told me "Tapping takes too much time".
The whole point of this thread at least to me is what constitutes unecessary "abuse" to a firearm and takes me back to my original reason why I try to treat my older classics somewhat gently. Most are 75 to 100 years old with steel of varying quality and spare parts are difficult to obtain. Why then subject them to unecessary stress?
Ya wouldn't toss your grannie into the ring to take on Hulk Hogan would ya?
Jim

Last edited by italiansxs; 07/07/08 08:13 PM.
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