I had my great-grandfather's SAA NDT'd [magnaflux? DPT?] by Northern Virginia Gun Works, 703-644-6504 before shooting it.
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I had my great-grandfather's SAA NDT'd [magnaflux? DPT?] by Northern Virginia Gun Works, 703-644-6504 before shooting it.
I would call the state's AG office and ask for advice on that one. I am pretty sure in WV, my state, they cannot require the card as a pre-requisite for service. The main purpose for the card is to track you down in case of a recall anyways.
That said, I would not return one for a trivial cosmetic reason like that. The finish was intact.
Looks to me like someone slipped while they were deburring....
Deburring tool drag mark. Happens all the time on the shop floor. Normally a guy will blend it in at the machine before anodizing.
If that's the case, nothing to worry about other than at this point it's a cosmetic blem.
Mike in MN
I really had no budget limit when I had the family heirloom SAA tested. I wanted to shoot it, but do so safely. So I did it. I suspect that today's cost would be on the order of $50-75, depending on who you had do it.
The problem with DP or magnaflux is that they are for discovering if there is a fault in the metal's surface, which you can already see in your case. DP on the inside surface would tell you if the fault has already reached the inside, but if the fault is just a hair shy of the inside surface, it will look as clean as can be. Therefore, I would like to withdraw my earlier comment and suggest that x-ray testing is the only tool that will give you the information you seek. What you want to know is if the fault has any depth to it. And x-ray shots will cost an arm and at least two legs.
The other approach is to simply assume that there really is a fault and have it TIG weld repaired.