8. Screw in the elevating-screw as far as it will go, then lift the elevating-screw and its sleeve by the handle clear of its seat and out of the traversing apparatus, allowing the front end of barrels to drop down slowly as far as they will go, and remove traversing apparatus by sliding to the left.
9. Remove screws and take off breech-casing.
10. Take out hinge-pin and remove hopper.
11. Remove screws which secure lock-cam cylinder to breech-casing, remove lock-cam cylinder, and take out cocking-cam piston and spring.
12. Take group of barrels out of frame (one man holding sleeve on front end of main shaft to prevent dropping) and remove sleeve.
13. Take out screw from lock-cylinder, back out steady-pin which holds rear-guide nut, and remove the nut. (The nut works on a left-hand thread.)
14. Take off lock-cylinder and carrier-block.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING.
1. Replace carrier-block and lock-cylinder.
2. Replace rear-guide nut, and put in steady-pin and lock-cylinder screw.