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Unread 09-08-2014, 12:13 PM   #21
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Good morning. Thanks for you help with my Parker.
I took it apart to clean it and am having a hard time re installing the firing pins. Any ideas as to how to get them to line up with the hole? Thanks, Bill
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The spring goes in first against the top side of the bolster. Then the firing pin drops in. you kind of have to tip the pin upward towards 2 o'clock to get it to fall in. The spring does not go around the pin. It sits against the offset step.

I hope that all makes sense.
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Bill,
From the last pictures I see of your gun it looks to be off face meaning there is a gap between the standing breech and the barrels . I would address this before firing your gun.
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Back in my early Parker collecting days, I ordered two "excellent" condition lifter Parkers from a Minnesota gun dealer by way of "Shotgun News"' the pre internet way of broadening your gun buying. Not only were they in "excellent" condition, they were "all original". When they came, one had a cracked frame and the other, cut barrels. The dealer returned my money with the comment that he was not an expert on Parkers but I obviously was. The crack extended back 3/8th of an inch into the standing breach. The barrels on the cut gun were short without keels.
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Plenty of guns still being sold like that today. By those who are not experts in Parkers. Or even guns in general for that matter.
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Again, you've been a huge help. I was putting the spring around the pin.

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I thought that might have been what was going on. That is a relatively common mistake.
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