Posted by Jent P Mitchell III
on May 2, 2012, 7:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Refurbishing a Smith"
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Ken, Cleaning the locks will not do anything to repair the loose top lever that is over to the left. Now about this $200 to clean and polish L C Smith locks, that is nuts ! I will clean your locks for nothing but the fun of it, there is nothing to cleaning L C Smith locks, it is easy. Polishing L C Smith locks will remove the case colors from the lock plates so I would not polish the locks unless they are rusty. If the head of the butt stock is oil soaked then it needs to be degreased and glass bedded to make it safe to shoot without doing more damage to the stock. Just about every time you work on an old L C Smith you will find something that you did not expect to find, things like bent or misshaped firing pins, worn out cocking rods and screws with bad slots or damaged threads. Like I wrote earlier, getting this work done correctly is not cheap. Like the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. If you go with the low bidder with no track record you are going to get what you paid for. I would strongly advise you to allow only professional gunsmiths that specialize in side-by-side shotguns to work on your L C Smith. Go with a gunsmith that has been recommended on this website by more than three of our members. Good Shooting To You, Jent
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