Thank you for your advice CJ and Keith I like to work on wood only and I am reasonably good at it. When I remove a stock I often have the trigger plate off and a pin or two removed with some parts that I know I can get back together. I clean any parts I remove but I also have some access to the guts and usually try to clean it up a bit even though the gun functions well already. That is the reason for the question. If I need to take a gun completely apart for cleaning or repair I send it out to a gunsmith. Although I just retired, my specialty is building new homes. I am not a gunsmith nor machinist and I have seen what nonprofessionals can do to a house so I can imagine what I can do to a beautiful old gun.
