[ithacaartist]

I can walk you through it. I hope you are fortunate enough to have all the parts!

The system consists of the extractor body, the extractor spring, and the extractor plunger. Depending on its vintage, your kit's breech block may have a slot above the extractor body. The alternative is a closed-top breech block. Since yours popped off, I figure it's the open-top version.

The spring should go first, then the plunger. Align/rotate the plunger's tip so that it will properly engage the rear of the extractor body. Stage the extractor body in the slot and push it back far enough that the "tail" on the extractor body clicks down into its vertical well. The plunger will have been pushed all the way inside its well to allow the body to go back far enough for the tail to drop. Now the extractor body is in place, and kept there by the spring's pressure on the interface of the notched area on the e. body's back end and the tip of the plunger.

My considered opinion is that extractor springs should be on the stout side, and that a pooped-out or marginal spring allows the extractor to be launched from an extractor system of this general design. Sadly, Erma's KGP series extractors behave like this. The early variations of the small frame Llama .22s' system is very similarly designed, and they also seem to have the same problem.

Let us know how it works out. I have accurate reproduction extractor bodies available for the conversion kits, if it ever comes to that.