Hello, my name is CJ with Colorado Gun Restorations
I put together a short video when I was
putting this LC Smith Shotgun back together
This is a gun that I just restored for a
customer
We put some custom wood on it, case colored
It, and rust blued it
We cut the gun barrel down to 20 inches
to make it a little bit more like a
stagecoach and we did a little bit of fancy wood
work on it. Things like that.
It’s hard to see but we also engraved the
hammer screws there
So when you take an LC Smith firearm apart
you’re going to realize really quick
that you may have made a mistake
if you’re planning on putting it back
together yourself so I did a couple of
short videos showing you the inside as I
put it back together but I wanted to
introduce it so that you understand where the problem
lies when you’re disassembling your LC
Smith and be prepared when you’re getting
ready to put it back together now
I had to build this jig there’s another
video online that where a gentleman shows this jig I
got the idea from him and it works
super so I wanted to kind of reiterate
this and how it works and
I think my video I took a picture from
the side so you can see a little bit
better what is going on and why you need a jig
to get it back together
so hopefully this will help someone when
they pull it apart, so you got some
screws on the bottom here
and you’re going to take these two
screws out be careful they strip pretty
easy in the wood
you’ll unscrew and once you get
this trigger cover off you’ve got two
more screws right here
one two and this one’s easy comes right
out that one as soon as you do that
you’re going to release a spring
the spring that holds the tension on
this top lever and it’s a ferocious
spring and as soon as you do that you’ll never
be able to get it back together
without destroying your gun or
scratching something without
this jig which you’ll see in the
when I splice together the other parts
of the video that will basically
this will go inside the gun because you
have to have the wood and the receiver
together to put this bottom plate back together
and this screw aligns with the top lever and in the middle that
you’ll see that big spring is going to
hold that tension so you’ll have to actually because the
the spring pushes and it’s not aligned you’ll have to
screw this in in a vise as you’ll see later and line it back up
and then you can drop that screw into
this screw and then up before I let the tension off
I typically go ahead and screw this back
On and put the back screws in that way boom
you’re just good to go
while you’re doing that and the reason
you got to put a device this way so you
have access underneath because you’ll have to pull
this out of the way and put that screw
that goes through and that threads into the same hole or
I’m sorry into this hole but up in the wood so once you take it
apart you’ll realize you may have made a
mistake and if you need to get your gun back together
I tell you later in the video how you
can get a hold of us but Colorado gun
restorations I’ll make you one, send you
one if you need one, or just look at the video
You can make it yourself. It’s pretty easy.
I’m doing a restoration now, so I actually built this
piece right here, drilled a hole and put it off to the side covered it with
leather so it won’t affect or scratch the gun and then it pushes on
this ferocious spring right here to line it up
so I’m gonna put it back together and
then I’ll show you really quick what it
looks like afterwards while it’s together and then
back off the spring off
I haven’t found any other way to be able to do all this
make it work in unison because you’ll see later that
the wood is on both sides here so you
can’t put the bottom tang on first
and slide it over the wood that the
bottom tank must go inside the wood
while going on the bottom of the receiver
just so you can see now how that’s being
pushed in so as I screw this screw in
it’s pushing against that spring and lining
this this hole up with the tang
and that’s what’s putting all that
pressure on your top lever there all right let me get it back together
okay really quick before i put this LC Smith back together i just wanted to
show you all the bolts and it’s a bit of a tricky
gun to get back together but if you
build a jig it makes it really easy
so you’ve got this screw that goes
through to the top lever and that’s where this
this spring is being placed back in
alignment you’ve got a front receiver screw and
then you’ve got two screws in the back
these you have to be careful with they
tend to script strip really easy
on the LC Smiths it’s a weird screw it
might be better to replace them with a screw
that has a little bit more bite
and then you’ve got this top screw
that’s buried underneath here so when
you put the wood back together
you’ve got to work this screw in while
holding this with this tension
and then work these two screws down
together so that it kind of sandwiches
the gun together and that’s what brings
it nicely together and then you can see on
this side where sorry
it is on this side right here I had to
drill a little bit of a notch out and
that’s where I pressed
this bolt that I turned the end of a little bit and I
got this idea from someone online they
have there’s another video online
that a guy has it is a great idea so I
just thought I would reiterate
his idea um this bolt goes through
pushes it and that bolt pushes right
through that hole and aligns it so that you can do it
while you’re putting things together in different in
different uh ways you can you have
access to the bottom you have access to the top
so I just want to show you that real
quick before I go ahead and put the side levers back together and tune
the gun so that it’s ready to go
I hope you enjoyed the video
If you find yourself working on an LC Smith and you
need this, just message me through our website at
coloradogunrestorationsrestorations.com
and I’ll build you one if you want
I’ll probably keep this one but
or I can send it to you can borrow this one
Alright thanks for watching
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