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Unread 06-25-2019, 10:55 AM   #41
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Ted, make it one of your “throw away” Parkers.





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Unread 06-25-2019, 11:10 AM   #42
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I don't have any of those, Dean...yet. But given my utter lack of mechanical skills, once I get started I just may end up with one. Perhaps I could donate it to the PGCA to be circulated amongst the membership so anyone who wants to learn could practice on it. All kidding aside, I do worry that sooner rather than later there won't be a competent gunsmith in my area to rely on. I've been thinking that it would be a good idea to be able to at least handle the simple issues myself.
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I just left Merringtons, and upon taking my 28 bore VH apart, found the little actuator “knurl” snapped off! The metal inside of the break looked like pot metal....very grainy looking.

Now I need an early 00 frame toplever! ����
That was super unclear...it is the part of the top lever.
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Thanks very much Brian, this is helpful. I've been working off an exploded-view diagram and your photo shows the diagram is depicting the post-1910 mechanism.

TxHuntermn's gun has the pre-1910 mechanism, so perhaps one of the pieces circled in red in the photo (taken from your photo) below must have snapped off?

I am working up the courage to take apart one of my Parkers to actually see this stuff for myself.
The part in the upper red circle broke away.

Are top levers frame specific??
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Unread 06-26-2019, 10:34 AM   #45
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Have someone repair the original broken part.
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It may well come to that, but Merrington has concerns over the quality of the steel in the original part. In the attached photos you can see that it is very crystalline, almost like what I used to call "pot metal". It is easy to see why the lever design was changed, that little piece that broke off is put to considerable mechanical strain, and I can see how easily it could be compromised.
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Unread 06-26-2019, 05:15 PM   #47
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Mark I'll look again
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Mark.

That is NOT the early style lever. That is the late (post 1910) lever.

As you said, your gun serial numbers to after 1910.
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I’m confused then Brian. You say the top lever in your photograph is the “early” style, and mine is identical.
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Additionally, my gun has v spring, and no coil spring.
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