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Colt .25 Automatic
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Colt25APa1.gif (4411 bytes) Begin takedown by moving safety (23) upward to safe position. Depress magazine-catch button (28) and remove magazine (32). Draw slide (10) fully rearward to clear chamber. Safety will engage slide, locking it open. Rotate barrel (1) 3/8 turn clockwise and pull froward as far as it will go. Then rotate it 3/8 turn counterclockwise and remove from slide.
Colt25APa2.gif (2835 bytes) Grasp slide firmly and move safety downward to fire position. Ease slide forward off frame (11). Remove recoil spring (8) and guide (9) from frame tunnel. This is sufficient disassembly for normal cleaning.
Colt25APa3.gif (2459 bytes) To disassemble further, drive out extractor pin (2) with a pin punch that closely fits hole in slide. Extractor (3) and its spring (4) may then be lifted out. Pry out firing-pin retaining pin (5)( with a narrow screwdriver blase inserted under its elongated head. Removal of the pin releases firing pin (7) and spring (6).
Colt25APa4.gif (4067 bytes) Unscrew grip screws (20) and remove grips (19) (27). Rotate safety 1/2 turn from safe position and withdraw from frame. Drift out magazine-safety pin (25) and remove magazine safety (24) and spring (26). Insert magazine-safety (22). Pull trigger and lower hammer with thumb, until hammer-spring guide (17) stops against the pin.
Colt25APa5.gif (3242 bytes) Unhook forward arm of sear spring (14) from sear (12), and remove spring. Drift out hammer pin (15) and  lift hammer assembly (16) from frame. Drift out sear pin (13) and remove sear. Depress hammer-spring guide with punch, and withdraw magazine-safety pin. Then, ease out hammer spring (18) and guide.
Colt25APa6.gif (3368 bytes) Drift out magazine-catch pin (30) to free magazine  catch (31), spring (29), and button. Drift out trigger pin (21), releasing the trigger assembly. Reassemble in reverse. Trigger mist be rotated forward to fully compress its internally located spring when the trigger pin is replaced.