Very impressive. Now I better understand why S&W revolvers are some of the best wheel-guns
around. They have their own foundry on site to make the raw forgings, not many manufacturers do these days. Quality control start to finish.

 

Nice to see a marriage of old-school manufacturing and new machines and techniques as well. I only have two questions... one, what do they do with all of those metal shavings left over from the machining processes, and two, why can't they figure out that nobody wants that damned "Hillary Hole" on their guns?

 

Articles about S&W is often in machining & manufacturing industrial periodicals that I get at work. Their metal chips are not just sold off as 'scrap'. Part of the reason S&W went to making all the blued and stainless guns/parts from the same alloys is so it can be recycled without weakening or contamination. I read they deal exclusively with Carpenter Technologies for all their steel. Machines are cleaned out and the chips put in 55gal drums. This is common practice in the machining & manufacturing industry. Carpenter is THE source for high-quality alloy steels in the US.

 

I enjoyed that,thanks!

 

That’s pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!