It isn't all that easy to bend a crane on either a Colt or an S&W by "flipping." (I never tried it with a Ruger.)
I once got hold of a couple of well used police guns, a Colt OP and an S&W M&P (Dare I say "pre-Model 10"?). I loaded the cylinders and spent a couple of merry hours flipping the cylinders in and out. Sorry, folks, I got a sore wrist, but no bent cranes. Of course those were steel guns, not alloy, but I somehow doubt that firing a few shots from any revolver is going to bend the crane even if the cylinder were "flipped" a few times.
Jim
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