Yeah For RUGER

Ruger customer service is a trip. They handily fixed broken parts on a 40 year old pistol. Just send us the parts...you have the address right honey? No? Just mail the parts here with a note... aw never mind the note they'll know what's broken. Just send the parts. "What'll it cost me?" Cost? It's free. Just send us the parts. Weird.

Anyhow once I got them back I couldn't remember how to get it back together. So here's the conversation I had with a friend as he explained the assembly for me.
Friend:Ping.
Me: pong
Me: my ruger parts returned from arizona
Friend:Have you had a chance to shoot the
10/22?
Friend:Fixed?
Friend:And have you managed to get it back
together?
Friend:Did I show you the trick with the hammer
strut?
Me: fixed.. and no
Me: and maybe but I can't get it back togeher
the pin is REALLY tight.
Friend:The bolt stop pin?
Me: even with the bolt out I can't push it all the
way through
Friend:Hmm...
Friend:Does the pivot pin project out from the
assembly at all?
Me: I think I could tap it in with a hammer... but
it gets stuck
Me: nope
Me: it's stuck on the bolt pin itself..
Friend:It might be the receiver out of place on the
frame.
Me: doesn't go in or out easy at all.. got it in
once and when I got it out it scraped brand new bluing
off
Friend:I'm trying to remember if the reciever slips
forward to come off, or backwards.
Friend:But on most the fit is tight enough you
need to whack the barrel or back of the reciever
with a wood/plastic/rubber mallet to get it to pop
on and off.
Friend:So you might need to find an appropriate
item (I usually use a chunk of wood) and tap it off
and back on.
Me: what would taking the reciever off get me?
Friend:It would let you know what way was on
:-)
Friend:I'm pretty sure, now that I think of it, it's
forward to get it off, backwards to get it on.
Me: and that gets me what?
Friend:But taking it off would let you get down in
the trigger group to clean.
Me: I'm not so worried about that..
Me: it's been dirty as long as I've owned it
Friend:It might be that reseating the top would let
the pin in easier.
Friend:Or it might just be that your gun is on the
small side of the tolerance and the pin is on the
large side.
Me: I'd just like to get it re assembled...if you
thought of cleaning it you should have done it when it was
in your house.. it'll be dirty for another few years
Me: I can tap it in with a hammer and a wooden
ruler to apply the force... so its just stiffer than thumb
power
Me: maybe not stiffer than your thumbs even but
stiffer than mine
Friend:They are a pretty tight fit.
Me: so which way should the little floppy thing
be? up towards ithe reciever or down towards the grip?
Me: and where should it end up?
Friend:There is a pin that goes through the frame
that you need to watch out for.
Friend:And the hammer strut should end up in
that little cup in the mainspring housing.
Friend:(that's the spring plunger)
Friend:The trick is:
Friend:Put the bolt in, insert the bolt stop pin.n
Friend:Pull the trigger so the hammer falls.
Friend:This will lift the hammer stut up towards
the bolt.
Friend:Turn the gun 135 degrees up from
horizontal.
Friend:This will cause the hammer strut to hang
straight down along the bottom of the bolt stop pin.
Friend:Then swing the mainspring housing shut.
You should need to push it closed a bit, and
closing the locking lever will cam it in place.
Friend:If you can pull the bolt back, then the strut
is engaged in the mainspring housing, and you're
done.
Friend:If the bolt will not come all the way back (it
gets less than .5") then the strut is up against that
pin through the frame I mentioned earlier, and you
need to unlock the mainspring housing, swing it
back out, drop the hammer, and try again.
Friend:The trick is getting the hammer down,
and getting the gun pointed up 135 degrees to get
the strut in place.
Me: ok what about this pin? is it the one that
the little floppy bit runs into?
Friend:Yes.
Me: what am I wanting to watch it for?
Friend:If the hammer strut gets stuck under that
pin, then it won't fall down where it's supposed to
go.
Friend:And if you put the housing in place with
the strut up against the pin, you have to open the
housing again to get the strut free.
Friend:It's Murphy's law in it's orignal form--there
are two places the hammer strut will fit when the
gun is assembled, and it turns out that the most
likely place (against the pin) is the wrong one.
Me: woo!
Me: I got it together it involved a cutting board a
tack hammer and a pastry brush...but it's together and the
bolt will go all the way back
Me: so... why were you looking for me?