Attempted Disassembly of an Aloris BXA QCTP

I took apart an Armstrong QC-4 piston for cleaning and lube last summer.
Had me baffled. Carefully tried the bigger pipe method, tried lube. Was Frustrated!!
Finally put her away for a couple days. Came back to her, and with one glance I knew what I had to do, it was easy.
She came apart, cleaned her and reassembled.

Uglydog,
Care to share what you did?
 
Z2V,
I wish I remembered!!
Seems to me that I noticed that the piston was spring loaded and by rotating the lever while depressing the piston it just disengaged.
I've not had a wedge system apart.

Daryl
MN
 
Thanks LX!
It resisted my limited attempts. I settled on soaking it and blowing it out several times. It's moving smoothly now so I'm going to cross my fingers and get this puppy mounted.
The existing T-Nut and Stud are off of a Clausing and the nut is an 1/8" narrower on the bottom width - of course.
The only part that I managed to disassemble was the knob... :grin:

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"Tamper proof" Another level of challenge to a machinists or machine nut like us.
 
I would use an impact wrench with that latest tool. The shocks will generally loosen things up where constant pressure won't.
 
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