Stevens Favorite reassembly?

[ApacheCoTodd]

I have a Favorite 1915 that has been sitting around waiting for a new firing pin..

When I took it apart over a year ago, I remember a "huh?" moment at which it was not going to be a direct intuitive reassembly so I wrote notes - now I can't remember what the thing I wrote was about, can't find the notes and can't for the life of me get it back together.

The block screw will go in to hold the firing pin block in place.

The lever screw will go in to hold the lever and extractor in place.

Neither will go in if the other is placed in first.

It appears that the spring within the extractor base tensions against the firing pin block screw but this same tension keeps the second screw (regardless of order) from engaging its threads squarely... begging cross/pulled threads.

I tried a slave pin but as soon as the pin is displaced by the screw, the spring cants the screw off its proper axis.

I looked at a couple goofy internet DIY clips but I think the fellas I looked at were on something - very hard to follow and poorly presented.

Anyone have a link to reassembly info on one of these?

Todd.

 

[rcmodel]

Try using a 1/8" pin punch instead of a slave pin.

You should be able to use the punch to 'lever' & hold the action lever & extractor in place while the screw is inserted and started in the threads as you slowly twist and pull the pin punch out of the way.

Easier done then tell you how to do it in writing though. :banghead:

rc

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Oddly RC - that's exactly what I did.

Getting the screw past the spring turns out to be little problem but when that spring tension is transferred to the screw, there is simply no way to get the axis of the screw and the threaded hole to line up.

I was hoping for some magical method of reassembly which might alter the position of the extractor till after the screw is seated.

Oh well, what's another year of contemplation? Still got the Floberts to play with.

Todd.

 

[rcmodel]

Does it make any difference once you have the holes lined up with a punch if the action is open, or closed, or halfway in between??

I remember doing it once years ago, but darned if I can remember what the trick was????

rc

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I tried it throughout the range. Fortunately, you can look through the hole and tell that the spring-pin is never without partially occluding the screw hole.

Except

If the lever screw has not yet been inserted. In that case - you are allowed to insert and thread the block screw without tension but then have the same - opposite - problem with the leverextractor screw.

I have half a notion that - counter intuitively - the hammer may need to be removed to ensure there is no pressure on either the extractor or lever screws but can't find any logical reason this would be the case.

You can imaging that the extractor spring camming on the block screw nearly all the time supporting extraction and the tension of the lever when closed.

Todd.

 

[rcmodel]

I gotcha.

I just can't remember how I did it the last time 35 years ago!!

Sorry!

rc

 

[4v50 Gary]

rcmodel - I took one apart last year for conservation and don't remember the details - so at least you have an excuse.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

If I could just get to that: "Really?... Gotta remember that!" part.

Todd.