Diana Diana 34 barrel's detent ball?

Hey guys, I hope you are all fine,

Does anyone know how to disassemble Diana 34 barrel's detent ball?

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I don’t think they are removable without ruining the barrel block. I could be wrong. Why do you want to remove it?
They finally went the "hw" way with that ems gun thing .. too little too late . ( Though hw has used ball detant)

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Im going to put ball detant as my 3ed joke reason why with all Germany engineering advancement they lost the wars

#1- couldn't keep the screws tight
#2- barrel droop
#3- ball detant.
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Overseas like at chambers they use to sell the ball and spring und r parts i believe.. but...?

Im like hobbyman and as said here its somthing last ditch fix job id onlt tackle if it came completely out or useless . Ball peen and cold chisel hold your mouth right and hope you can stake ot back in right .

Then mdking a compressor to hold ot down in place + be able to work around it to peen .. ya no fun i see ..

Look at paragraph

"Breech lockup"​



 
Maybe it’s just the camera angle, but that ball detent looks like it’s staked in too far. Perhaps some shade tree mechanic re-worked it at some point?
True. That or some crud is seated under the ball keeping it too deep. I've had that on old R7s. Sometimes exercising the ball with a dowel end and some good solvent loosens the crud and returns it to full extension.