The lockdown has given me the time and inspiration to complete all kinds projects. I've almost completed the restoration of a 63 year old Smith & Wesson Combat Masterpiece. During the restoration process, the pistol was completely disassembled and cleaned. Upon reassembly and inspection, it measured way too much cylinder endshake. This I corrected, as shown in the YouTube video, that makes it look way easier and less time consuming than it is. (Probably because it's produced by a company that sells the parts and tools needed.) All that's left to do to complete the job, is to take the pistol shooting and sight it in by adjusting the rear sight. Don't quite know when that's going to happen. At my age I'm gonna insist on everyone involved being masked and keeping social distancing. Probably too much to expect at any of the local public shooting ranges in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Note that the S&W revolver shown in this video, unlike mine in the photos I posted, does not have a pinned barrel. Smith & Wesson stopped pinning the barrels of their revolvers in the early 1980s as a cost saving/profit enhancing measure.
The right side of a Smith & Wesson revolver's barrel usually has its caliber indicated. In this case it reveals that this is a K-22 Combat Masterpiece (aka Pre-Model 18) in .22 LR.
