Another Tale of good customer service.

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I pulled the cylinder pin, probably more correctly called the base pin assembly, and the little pointy thing and the spring behind it came out. I was apawled. Thumbs up if you get that, but I digress. This was a 1977 stainless single six. My initial urge was to take things out to the shop, enlist the aid of my brilliant Son, a brass hammer and punch, but he is gainfully employed. So I called Ruger Customer Service.
It's kind of hard to find the phone number for them, but it is there.
The nicest gal I've talked to in a while said she was going to send me a new base pin assembly. I got it yesterday.
The little brown envelope was correctly labeled KXR02900A. I opened it and out came a blued base pin assembly. I was able to call New Hampshire shortly before their day was done.
AGAIN, I had the pleasure to converse with a nice gal that very quickly pulled up my records and said ~ I guess somebody pulled the wrong part, we'll have a stainless version in the mail tomorrow. I offered to send it back but she said don't bother.
Very nice people. A very nice experience.
So, my overall score:
The base pin assembly failed after 44 years. The part that "failed" was part of a redundant safety system. Since the safety system was redundant, I'm going to score the a -.5
The phone number to call was kinda hard to find. But I remember brick streets and electric trolleys in East Texas. I'm going to score that a -.5
The first call was answered by a nice gal that understood my problem and quickly solved it. +2.
Quick on time delivery, although it was not necessary. +2
Resolved my second "problem" for $0.00, +4.
I end up with a blued base pin assembly that I can maybe trade or at least use to start a good story…+6.
So that's a +13. That's bigger than 11 for those of you that can get that.
 
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You're happy, that what counts.

From Ruger's side, not so good.
Somebody did not do their job correctly....costing the company
an extra part, you and them an extra phone call, re-pulling the correct part, then
packing and shipping it all over again
 

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