Rough Chambers in DW Revolvers

[Dan Wesson]

Has anyone else had problems extracting spent rounds in thier 15-2s?
I looked at my cylinder bores and there the roughest looking I ever seen.
My DW guru a Ruger Collecter and former DW employee told me to polish the chambers with a cleaning rod rapped with 600 grit wet dry paper coated with oil and turn slowly in a cordless drill..
I tried it and polished out with Flitz afterwards.
looking magnified I saw the worst machining marks in the cylinders.
there smoother now but not perfect by no means.
When compaired to Ruger,Taurus, S&W etc. the DWs cylinder bores are the roughest by far.
...WARNING... Do not try to polish unless your having problems,My DW 15-2VH was shot with alot of lead 38 Specials and that was the real problem in mine.Chamber caked with lead and copper,I cleaned the hell out of it first.
I may buy a chamber reamer in 357 magnum from Brownells and share it with the other Forum members? It realy matters what the reamer costs and availability..I await a answer from Brownells.
Dan Wesson / Gary
Also does anyone out there have a Partridge front sight I could get??
Thanks!!!

[chazgin]

I have a 357 Supermag that had hard extraction with med to heavy loads. I also had a M27 S&W that had the same problem after it was electroless nickel plated. I used Brownell's Flex-Hone for 357 cylinders to polish the chambers. It worked great on both revolvers. Kept fitting the fired cases until they didn't stick. Now it fires max loads with no extraction problems. I would suggest you look into using the Flex Hone before you take a reamer to the chambers. The Flex Hone is very easy to use and is not all that expensive.

[Dan Wesson]

I gotta get me one of those flex hones.
That's what everyone else has been telling me
There $22.54ea. & Look like a cylinder hone for automotive use and use a special oil to lube them don't forget that stuff..
I have a few other older wheelguns that could benifit from the flex-hone
Thanks DW  :excuseme:
I'll be buyin me one of these + I'm geting a reamer for making a Ruger SP101 38 into a 357 magnum 125gr only,It's made by clymer and runs $90 ,The exact cost of having it done by a Rick Devoid..

[wiley]

look pretty fierce! A piece of 1/4" drill rod that's slit longitudnally for 1" would hold a piece of crocus cloth and do the same job. I've also used a fired case that I drilled the primer pocket out of and put a screw into. A little J&B bore cleaner and you are off to the races. $28 buys a lot of bullets...

[Dan Wesson]

I made me up one from a 6" piece of a broken cleaning rod.
I secured the 600 grit wet dry paper with a small piece of rubber tubing and wrapped around until it just fit & used CLP as a lube and scrubbed up and down in the bores slowly with cordless drill,I also made me padded cylinder holder out of a PVC scrap wrapped with a sheet of rubber.
I like the looks of the Flex-Hone and may buy one in the future.
My cylinder bores are smoother but not perfect. Look in your DWs.
I may try and post a magnified Pic of them to show the machine marks
My problem started with using 38 Spls and shooting Rubbish Armscor 357s
May try my hand at the range again Saturday,NEED QUALITY AMMO!!!
May ride out to KY Imports at lunch tomarrow to Get some.
I also polished the bores with Flitz on a 45 mop and polished them up a bit better. I'll try and get a pic of the chambers.

[Dan Wesson]

Here's a few pics of the cylinder magnified 10 times,Pic isn't that good but you can see the ridges-Machineing Marks..
Also note that I have already smoothed it out some and polished,Should have seen it before :eek:

[wiley]

I have DW in most calibers from 22 to 445, never had a problem with sticky chambers. Have you fired it since polishing? A lot of material removed isn't a good plan...

[RollTide]

I have many Dan Wessons and have had many others.  Fit and finsh on my guns are superior, typical DW quality.  I have never had any problems with the bores unless fouling was left in a magnum gun after firing special rounds.  That will cause problems in any make of gun though.  Any maker has a gun slip through without proper QC occasionally, you must have gotten one.  Did you buy the gun new?  Maybe someone had similar problems with fouling and tried similar fixes before.

[Dan Wesson]

Realy I just polished the chambers removing little to no metal
I haven't shot it since,I'm going shootin in the morning and I only have 100 Remington 125gr. 357 magnums.
I'm gonna take a chamber brush with me for sure to the range.
MY DW is Scary accurate.I'm takin some iron Turkeys:wink:
I'll repost after a setion with nothing but magnums and then I might shoot a box of 38s threw it afterwards..
I realy needed to stock up on .223 rem so I can enjoy my CAR-15A2.
I'm gonna take my SIG P229,2 Rugers a SP101 and a MKII target,Beretta 92FS ,S&W 3913 & the DW15-2 tomarrow.Got plenty more but that's a good setion with the Hanguns.I'll be shootin the SIG with the 357 Sig barrel.I got 200 rounds ready for it.
Got ammo for all of them ready.
Need to restock my ammo supply badly.
My buddy Meanmarcus will be taking his AK-47 a AMD-65 in 7.62x39 and has a 75 round drum ready for the bump fire technigue..
I'll be leaving all my rifles other than my Remington Nylon 66  
Still lovin My DW alot.We'll see,Probobly user error ,Me shooting a those 100 38 spl. before and that RUBBISH Armscor Crap. That I wouldn't recomend to anyone.Puffed alot of smoke and was very very dirty.
Also it was nickle plated cases on the Armscor and the Federals I shot were brass cased??
Wish the DW luck extracting,I know it'll be fine it's a great 357,Maybe the best.S&W,Ruger,& Taurus are getting very Jelous of the Super accurate DW 15-2..
DW

[GRIMJIM]

THOUGHT I READ ANOTHER POST ABOUT THE SAME PROBLEM, ONLY WITH A NEWER MODEL, AND THEY CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER AND THEY REPAIRED THE CYLINDER AS A WARRANTY JOB. COULDN'T HURT TO TRY. NOT SURE WHERE I SAW IT, COULD HAVE COME TO ME IN A DREAM.

[Mayor of Hobbs Knob]

The .44 Mag. I bought recently seemed to have a build up in the chambers from shooting specials.  I cleaned the devil out of it but .44 Mags still stick hard in one chamber.  Going to soak it overnight with a bore cleaner like Butch's and see if the .50 cal brush I've been using will open it up.  The chambers are Godawful rough, but doesn't it shoot!!  I bought it to shoot falling plates with and I have to us .44 SPL's for that.  I still plan to carry it hunting with full house .44 Mag's, but if it won't eject--who cares.  If I didn't drop it with six I wouldn't get it with twelve.  I'll keep working with it 'cause it's the best .44 I've ever shot.  Dumped the Super Blackhawk  as an inferior weapon.  They are special cases but LOVE those DW's!