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I'm wanting to take the locks off for a cleaning and I'm not sure how to get them off. I see the pins but I don't wanna take a chance on springs flying everywhere. I work on L. C. Smith but not too sure on this one. I'll post pics as soon as I can get to my puter
Last edited by burch; 11/20/16 10:02 AM.
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Sidelock
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I never remove my side locks for cleaning unless something is wrong or I had the misfortune to drop a gun over board. Perfectly fit side locks are a closed system as far as I am concerned and the chance for minor damage to the fine in-letting of the wood around the side plates is not worth the risk to me. Again if I have to do it then I bite the bullet otherwise I leave them alone.
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so you don't ever clean and oil
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What is a Frenchie?....like a Darne, Guyot,or Granger?
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Sidelock
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No I don't and I don't pull the stocks off my box locks to clean and oil them unless there is a real problem. I get so tired of seeing buggered screws made that way by prying owners, semi competent amateur gunsmiths and people fixing things not broken. I consider it a protected, closed system, unless I do something stupid to change it. And getting a screw out after 75 to 150 years of being in place is sometimes not easy or even possible. If not done poorly, which too often occurs, they get buggered up and for no great improvement of the gun. For the same reason I don't pull side locks to look at their design, the level of finish or see if they bear a makers mark.
Now I will strip and clean a pump or semi auto because the action is completely open to dirt and by their very nature anything that gets into them can cause problems. Also I find that they have much more need for rust prevention. I just don't see how rust can get into a well fit, set of side locks unless they have been subjected to copious amounts of water.
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Point takin. I just like taking care of my stuff and figure guns of any kind need cleaned and oiled every so often.
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What is a Frenchie u ask. Mine is a 1910 12 ga. built in St. Etienne, France. I wish I could post pics but my computer is on the fritz. If they made computers like they made our shotguns we'd all be a lot happier.
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Sidelock
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I didn't know what the OP meant by Frenchie.
Then I thought perhaps he meant Franchie.
But then saw he was talking about Locks, not Gas gun stuff
Sorry,
Put up some pics..French Guns can be lovely
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