Several months ago I'd received my 642 Pro back after 2 trips to S&W, the first trip was for a broken stud and the frame was replaced, I had the gun for about 2 weeks ran 2-3 cylinder's and it went back to S&W, the barrel was replaced. I hadn't shot it much, just kind of pissed with the whole episode, maybe a hundred rd's or so to confirm function, poa / poi with a fair amount of dry fire. The trigger was about 9.5lb's prior to any problem's, after I got it back this last time the trigger was 10 lbs or little under, I figured, well...new frame I'll shoot it in some. Well the trigger was worse and the reset had gotten pretty sluggish so, after a pretty good article on American Fighting Revolver on J frame Lubing, I figured I'd check it sooner than I'd planned. Not that I had big expectation's but, when the side plate came off it was obvious there was no lube in the gun at all, I don't mean very little here or there or it was dried up, there was zero lube in the gun, assembled and shipped bone dry and I don.t suppose the curled aluminum sliver that was maybe twice the diameter of a human hair and over .5" long ( maybe from the barrel replacement? )with the rest of the aluminum dust / small flakes I got out were helping things. After smoothing out the rebound block and hammer strut and with some lube it's nice and smooth at the low end of 9.5 lb's. I decided against installing the new Apex kit I'd picked up prior to the first trip to Smith, not wanting to go through $250 of mixed ammo for vetting again but may try a Wolff 16 lb rebound spring. I do look forward to picking up a 642 / 442 UC when one shows up, if it passes an initial once over but, it does seem that once initial rounds are run through to hopefully confirm there are no warranty issues, an internal inspection may be a good idea.
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Originally Posted by Lester Polfus
