Go ahead and laugh

[Usingmyrights]

I saw a Spring kit for a Ruger GP100 that someone said should fit into a Police Service Six. I tried out the mainspring, and it was a ton better. I decided to swap out the trigger spring. Having never worked on a Ruger gun before (other then a 10/22) I asked someone who I know is very knowledgable on firearms. He told me how to take it apart.
I get it apart only to find out its a totally different type of spring. So I'm looking the inside of the gun over and pieces start falling out (only 2 or 3). The guy that told me how to take it apart comes up to me and says "I'm going to let you in on a little secret". I'm eagerly awaiting to receive some of his knowledge. He tells me "I've never taken one of these apart before". "I'm going to let you in on another secret. I've never seen one of these taken apart before".
Now I'm starting to sweat it a little bit, because it wasn't my gun that I was experimenting with. He looks at what I'm doing and tells me to try putting one of the parts in another spot. Did that and started putting in back together and its just shy of snapping closed. After several unsucceful attempts, he suggested Just to give it a little bump with a rubber mallet. I can now say that I've got a much greater understanding of Ruger revolvers.

[cwshootersupply]

Oh I wouldn't laugh:animlol: Ruger are one of my favorite. Very easy to work on with practice.
let me know if you need any more help.

[Usingmyrights]

I think I've got it figured out now on a basic diassembly. Probably going to pull apart mine and polish it up a little. I know someone who said they would bob the hammer for me. I'm just wondering if I drop the mainspring weight from 14 down to 9 or 10, (don't know which one I want yet. The 10 feels a little smoother), and it has less hammer weight, if it'd have enough force to reliably fire everytime. Probably going to just swap out the spring. It'd be kinda nice to take an inexpensive revolver, have it polished up nice on the outsite, a bobbed hammer, and a smoothed out/lighter trigger pull. But this will end up being my woods gun, so all of that won't matter anyway.

[vafish]

I would much rather disassemble and reassemble a Ruger revolver than a S+W revolver.

Smiths are much more difficult, lots of little parts.

[Usingmyrights]

Well I took the gun almost completely apart. There were a few small pieces in the trigger assembly that I could clean around. Everything else was taken out, cleaned, polished if it'd make a difference, oil, and put back together. I now have a smooth, light trigger pull in my cheap Ruger .357. Who would have thought.

[Washington,D.C.]

The Service-Six responds very well to polishing the hammer spring strut. It's sides and around the top with a knife sharpening stone. The hammer notch LIGHTLY with a small knice sharpening Arkansas stone. It will make the original factory hammer spring "feel" much lighter. It doesn't take much stoning.


http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/PDF/InstructionManuals/40.pdf



http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/PDF/PartsBooklets/D9.pdf