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Broken firing pin

Posted by Drew Hause on March 28, 2024, 10:11 am
Edited by board administrator March 30, 2024, 1:22 pm

After 118 years of hard use.
The upper pin looks to be a replacement as the bushing had been replaced at some point. I don't know which would be original?

Re: Broken firing pin

Posted by Drew Hause on April 2, 2024, 4:24 pm, in reply to "Broken firing pin"

The upper (intact) pin is the original for my 1906 Smith.
Gloria a Dios, and thanks to Tom Garver, I got both bushings out, new pins are in, and everything works

Only needed to shorten the legs a bit.

Re: Broken firing pin

Posted by Lloyd Mckissick on April 2, 2024, 7:38 pm, in reply to "Broken firing pin"

That's pretty neat that someone had those rather-critical replacement parts for an almost 120-year old gun. You could almost never do that with a British gun. You'd be fabricating that part, period.

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