I've only heard of the lock engaging on the very light scandium J-frames and big scandium N-frames, both with heavy recoiling (magnum) ammo.
Rather than loctiting anything, I'd either remove the mechanism and have the empty hole or remove the mech and get one of the purpose-made plugs.
With loctite, you risk affecting something else.
Chris
That's one of my concerns, as well as which version of Loctite to use
as a stopgap measure until I get together with Son2 for the removal operation.
As far as using yet another external "device" to lock it up and cover the hole, I prefer the long-term choice of removing the actuating mechanism altogether. Afterward, plugging the hole with just some kind of plain old "something" is the next problem down the road.
Chewing gum?
I do carry a belted semiauto in addition to the revolvolator in a pocket in cooler weather. What really pisses me off is that (supposedly) a revolvolator is more reliable than a semi, yet this effing ILS (FILS) renders that concept kaput.
I don't think Smith would handle this under some kind of repair policy. That's kind of hard to imagine, and I intensely dislike shipping guns around the country in these latter days of more intense paranoid regulation on that kind of thing. The last time I had to send a gun back, in days of yore, it was
mail it to 'em, wait, get it back in the
mail, and that was that.
Yes, I'm an old-timer (78+ yo), and I remember those shining days. Nowadays, the fusseration and frustration of moving guns (EEEK!) around the country is a pain in the ass. And expensive.
Besides, it took Smith many many many decades to finally recognize that the little cutout on the forcing cone was a design defect --
just as this little doohickey is.
Terry
