Nova N1 Disassembly

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Taking apart a Nova N1.

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Starting by removing the barrel. Push on and twist to remove the barrel.

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And you can see the insert, the the numbers on the back side. These must go in in the proper direction. If you put them in backwards you’ll have issues.

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Next we’ll go up top to the retaining bolts and the feedneck:

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You need to remove the bolt before you remove the feedneck. When reassembling make sure you out some blue loctite on the feedneck. When playing my hopper decided to start spinning, which was a little annoyingly. So. A little loctite fixed that issue

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Next remove the trigger frame.

The rear screw is easy to remove
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To access the front grip frame screw you need to remove the two small screws holding the trigger guard.

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With that removed there’s a small black plug that is part of the trigger mechanism. Under that piece is the from frame bolt.

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And the trigger frames comes off:

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And now to the internals:

slide the front section with the feedneck threads
out of the main body:

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And you can see the rear assembly in the marker still.

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I used a swap to help push out the rear assembly:
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And just be mindful there’s a spring behind the rear gauge.

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The Firing assembly the also slides out:

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And leaves the main body empty:

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And then there’s the trigger frame assembly:

There are two small screws on the ASA:
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And with the grip removed you can see the internal airline:
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I was going to disassembly the N1 right to the trigger assembly, but I don’t want to mess up my internal airline as it was tight. Nova had a great video showing how it’s all done on YouTube.

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Now, remember when reassembling the marker you properly align the internal assembly’s holes
with the main body. I used my swap to help slide parts into place and lightly threaded the bolts to hold them. Otherwise may have difficult lining up the individual
pieces.

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And finally, can anyone clarify how to tell if you have the Terr-Air upgrade just by looking at it? I’m not sure how the stock parts looks like compared to the upgraded parts.

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Great write up! Sure I’ll be coming back to this once maintenance is necessary.