Don, most guys--not possessing a set of good gunsmith screwdrivers--don't want to disassemble a Repro to clean it themselves. (And certainly shouldn't without good screwdrivers, or maybe even WITH good screwdrivers.) Therefore, it IS a problem--to the same degree that British sportscars were "problems" because they spent a fair amount of time in the shop. There too, the problems may have been minor, and the cars were a heck of a lot of fun to drive, but if you weren't an amateur mechanic yourself, somebody else had to work on them.
So as I see it, it'd be "dumb ass" (and dishonest) on my part, as a writer, not to mention that you're more likely to have a Parker Repro SST worked on than, say, an SKB SST. And considering that there are about 5x as many SKB sxs out there as Repros, that puts the issue in some perspective. And speaking of SKB's, it's like warning the owners of those guns that they need to make sure the through-bolt is tight or they may end up with cracks in the head of the stock. Minor problem, yes . . . but common enough to merit mention. Those are exactly the kinds of things writers SHOULD point out.
Last edited by L. Brown; 03/20/10 10:03 AM.
