RE INDEXING SCREWS

[Parkerman]

A quick point--a copper washer in contact with steel will cause a problem called "galvanic corrosion"- i.e., a very small electric current will be established between the two different metals causing erosion over time (yes, a long time but think Parker time)

[Bindlestiff]

Can someone help me with defining how to determine what "left" is when talking about where the screws are marked with a "-"? I "assume" its left as viewed from the top with barrels pointed away for the side screws and from the bottom with the barrels pointed away for the bottom screws. Am I correct?

[Richard Flanders]

Please don't tell me I brought up a point that no one has an answer for. I've always considered it to mean when the gun is upside down with bbls pointed away from me, but I'm not sure how that coincides with the side screws; are they marked also?(I haven't had any of these out of a gun in some time). If they are, then I suppose L and R would be determined with the gun upright. Whatever is the case, it needs to be clearly defined for folks reading the FAQ who are perhaps dismantling a Parker for the first time. And regardless of which is correct, I like Austins(?) method of having a small board with a floorplate tracing and holes to put the removed screws in. I've done the same, and it represents the gun upside down.

[Bindlestiff]

I added the following to the FAQ, I hope its correct?

The "left side" references the left side of the gun while looking at the bottom of the receiver with the barrels pointed away from you.

[Dean Romig]

Robin, I think the only way to have your 'L/R, upside-down, right-side-up, barrels pointing away from or to you' questions answered correctly is to ask the true disassembly/assembly experts - the Del Gregos. I would hope they would be generous enough to set us all straight on this. I know this is their business and trade secrets are often kept very close but it would be very beneficial to the Parker gun community to know this information.

[Jim Akins]

While not wishing to become embroiled in this issue, I believe it is bottom side up, barrels pointing away, screw with the l on the left. There is a 50% chance that I am wrong, but as a point of interest the screws on the side are also marked, also the wood screws are marked for location on a straight grip gun and skeleton buttplate.

[Opening Day]

Jim I am pretty sure you are correct. Eric

[Mike McKinney]

Didn't Doug Turnbull discuss this when he took the Parker apart at the Vintagers? I don't recall if he talked about the specific sides, but he did talk about the marks.

[Roundsworth]

I may be way out in left field with this, but, we know which barrel is the right and which is the left. Wouldn't it make sense to identify screws with their location in relation to each barrel? Sears and hammers are labeled that way, why not the screws.

[Dollar Grade]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but of the dozen or so that I have taken apart (from the 1890's to the mid 1920 mfg dates) the trigger plate screw with a single line filed into the threaded end has gone into the hole on the right side the the gun. While the gun is upside down and the butt plate is pointing at my belly. Left side of the gun if you are shooting it....

If nobody else can confirm this then I must be going insane...
...probably not far from it, seeing as the Remington model 12 firing pin that I just got from Numrich's is not a drop in piece. I have to file out the notch for one of the pins that holds it in place.........who would have thought ??!! Cripe, it may need more filing before it will work...

Kurt