Ok I'm having trouble removing the ratchet (mainspring)wheel of my model 9 Howard 16sz. I've taken the 3 screws out. But it does not raise up like on a bun special.
Posts: 3326 | Location: Illinois in the USA | Registered: July 06, 2010
Long time since I touched one Gene but from memory lift the barrel bridge with the barrel still attached, but be careful you do not lose that jewel doing it, very easy to forget it is still there and they will fall out unexpectedly.
Now you can first remove the lower part of the barrel will now come off with the mainspring inside of it. You will have the barrel bridge and the upper part of the barrel still attached. From memory this unscrews (I think, I stand to be corrected as it has been a very long time), by now locking the winding wheel thus allowing it to separate from the bridge.
A lot of people will not even disassemble that upper barrel piece from the bridge it is the proverbial pain in the you know what
Posts: 2265 | Location: Gladstone in Australia | Registered: January 14, 2011
Good advice Bila, your reference to "...lot of people will not even disassemble that upper barrel piece from the bridge..." also applies to the later Sangamo and Bunn Specials which use a similar construction.
As the years pass removing and replacing tiny screws becomes more of a problem and I have reached the point in life where I like to avoid problems to the greatest extent possible.
Be well my friends,
Lindell
Posts: 10553 | Location: Northeastern Ohio in the USA | Registered: November 19, 2002
and I have reached the point in life where I like to avoid problems 
to the greatest extent possible.
