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Originally Posted by John Campbell
The previous few posts present a worthy point for consideration regarding any such "how to" manual. And it involves human nature.
On one hand, it would seem generous and helpful to provide the novice with a certain level of tuition on the proper disassembly procedures required. Better to "do it right" than make a muck of it is the easy rationale.
On the other hand, it is a well-worn phrase that "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" can indeed be - dangerous. Especially when a garage gunsmith reaches the FUBAR stage on a nice Parker's takedown.
Then the sorry bits must be sent off to some professional to be put right again. If they can be.
Finally, the Parker hammerless is not a boxlock for the neophyte to be learning anything on. It's more like asking a local tech at the Goodyear garage to tune your Ferrari.
Just my opinion.
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I'd have to disagree with this- I followed Brian's disassembly procedures and found it very simple to completely disassemble and reassemble these Parkers. Granted I was working on those guns that I bought that were in rough shape, screws were already buggered up and the stocks on both were in terrible condition so I had few worries about cosmetic damage. Now that I've done it a couple times i would have few worries completely stripping any parker no matter how nice. I would consider a book like this valuable. For certain folks who like to work on their own guns, at least the simple stuff like totally stripping to lubricate, having a very clear takedown guide in print could be helpful.
The only downside I'd see is that really the only people who would buy it are those who are completely invested in collecting Parker's. I don't know how many copies of the parker story were sold, but I'd imagine a book like this would probably never eclipse those numbers by any great degree, though a lesser cost would probably drive more sales. If you consider it a labor of love, hoping to cover your costs and maybe some of your time I'd say go for it.