Originally Posted by
ralph
I have a 629, that after about 4-5000 rnds, with some pretty warm loads thrown in, devloped endshake, and the cylinder would'nt completly index, I called S&W, and they told me, that as long as I was the orginial owner, the warranty still applied. I had bought this pistol new in 1995. Anyway, they sent me a shipping label, and I sent it in, they fixed everything, for free, they had to replace the ratchet on the cylinder, the hand, did something to the trigger, and got the endshake down from .017, to.007. All this took about 3 weeks. As it was, when I sent it in, I did'nt feel it was safe to shoot, and it sat in my safe for several years until I finally decided that I needed to get this thing fixed, or get rid of it. Honestly, I was suprised that S&W would still honor the warranty, and that at the time, (probably 4-5 years ago) still had parts to fix it with. But, I'd at least give S&W a call and see what they say.. It's possible that they may have a small stash of parts just for repairing older S&W's..