Fox Collectors

Anyone willing to part with a sterlingworth assembly manual? Either original or reproduction would be great!

-Luke Sherman
(307)751-7071

Been playing with Ansley H. Fox guns for 63 years and I've never seen such a thing.

The instructions on our home page is the best you can get --

https://foxcollectors.com/mechanisms/disassembly

I have no patience, so I never go inside these things. I leave that to those who know what they are doing.

Relatively easy for a person with mech ability and with properly sized screwdrivers/bits to keep from marring the screw slots. But occasionally the trigger plate screw resists being unscrewed to the nth degree, and you can’t do much without getting the plate off. I know fellas will say use some good penetrating oil, etc but I’ve found that’s not effective in worst cases. A month ago I had a friend’s Sterly that had to be set up on the milling machine, clamped upside down in the table vice and with heavy down pressure on the spindle, turning with a long Cresent wrench. I broke off two bits before getting it to turn. I know work like this can be challenging and rewarding, but if you lack the know-how and tooling for eventualities that often come up, I strongly suggest getting your gun to a qualified ‘smith for work. frank

Just an aside, after getting his Sterly apart and fixing its safety, friend said he’d buy me a good lunch while we were both at the Northeast SxS event. But of course he was never around at lunchtimes. Another gent has about six Prime Rib dinners on his running tab. So goes working on Foxes.