BTW ... if anyone wishes to go to the Berea website and check the instructions .....
Due to the large number of Sierra kits with all types of button click mechanisms, I recommend that you do the following.
On the Berea website home page, do a search for "Sierra".
This will produce 5 pages of "hits".
Go to the third page, and select the "Sierra Button Click Ballpoint Pen Chrome 7502N_B-CHR".
Select this kit.
Scroll down to the word "Instructions" and click.
You will be presented with a line of text in a blue color, reading "
Instructions on Sierra® Button Click Ballpoint Pen - Chrome"
Click on this line of text.
This will bring up onto your screen, 3 pages of instructions.
Scroll to the Third Page.
Underneath the text line "Assemble the pen" you will see a picture showing the component pieces laid out.
Underneath this picture, you will see Step 1 of the assembly procedure, most of the text in this step being RED.
The RED portion is of the utmost importance, and it is the portion that I have copied in my post previous to this post.
It is that RED text which includes the most important info for the assembly process.
Some of you may be wondering why the finding of these printed assembly instructions is so cumbersome. . I don't really know.
But ... the Sierra pen kit from Berea has had a long history, even before Woodcraft adopted that design for its product, the Wallstreet.
There are now a large number of Sierra pen kits in the Berea collection of pen kits.
The names of the variants of the Sierra pen kits are all very similar.
Strangely, even if you know the name of the particular variant style that you wish to examine, Berea's search engine does NOT WORK WELL.
In fact, Berea's search engine might miss the one you want, strange as that might seem.
The Sierra products have been evolving for over 20 years. . Some of the original designs are still available, along with the modern variants.
Some of the original designs have been discontinued. . There seems to be no consistency to the discontinuation process.
Some styles and/or platings have gone while others are still offered.
It would seem that the search engine has not been accurately updated to keep track of everything.
So I have developed the search procedure which works for me and is outlined above . . I hope it works for you also.
One final comment. . I believe that Berea will soon have to "clean house" on all the Sierra variants, and things will continue to change.
There are some VERY nice modern variants which will persist. .
If you can, focus your attention on those with the words "Elegant", "Beauty" and ESPECIALLY the word "Super" in the Sierra kit names.
The "Super" CLICK kits really are "super", because they employ an all-metal German click mechanism, called the SKM-88 from Schmidt.
For the time being, the kit which
@JMLampke has used and reported in this thread is still being sold but, I EXPECT, NOT FOR LONG.
( Of course, I could be wrong because I don't know the "mind of Berea". . But, keep a watchful eye open and choose kits carefully. )
Of course, ... also ... other vendors who have adopted the Sierra design and renamed it in the adoption process, could do their own thing.
None of us can control any of that. . The company Woodcraft has their own control of their "Wallstreet" variant of the Berea Sierra kit.
Similarly, the Rockler company has their own control of their "Manhattan" variant of the Berea Sierra kit.
There are quite a few other companies with other variants of the same original Berea Sierra kit design.
Some of you may feel inclined to dismiss my warnings/advice. . But I have been following the Sierra line and its clones from other companies for going on 15 years as one of my pet projects. . . I have tried to summarize my take on the situation based on my actual experiences.
Some others of our members, notably
@leehljp ( see his recent thread on this subject ), are also following Sierra developments closely.