bman,
Great work... yu da man!
I'm curious how and what you used to squeeze the two pins together to extract the selector disk/central shaft out. Also, who supplied the 3rd or 4th hand to pry the selector disk up?
In a 3/8" or 1/2" version of this ratchet it would be no problem because there is plenty of room to work, but in the 1/4" ratchet the amount of space behind the pawls is very tight.
Gang,
Just so you all understand the trouble that bonneyman went to in fixing this ratchet, the term "lazy pawl" means that this ratchet was only firing on one of two cylinders. Or, put another way, this 72 tooth hot rod ratchet was reduced to a common 36 tooth action clunker ratchet. This was a very slick patented design that beat many other ratchet makers like MDF to the punch with their RHFT ratchet that was not introduced until 1970.
In helping me, bonneyman saved two very nice and somewhat rare vintage Bonney ratchets. Thanks again bman!!!