Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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We fooled with it a f ew times a~d it f inally
engaged in the UID.iOCK position, and Ed was
able to go ahead and start.
White
The first indication of trouble was when I
unstowed the handle to open the hatch.
The
handle freely moved up and dovm with no tension
on it at all.
I knew right away where the
trouble was . It was up in that little spring
on the gain pawl.
So, I went up and manipulated
it back and forth in hopes that I could break
the lubrication loose in the spring to get it
to work.
We must have spent several minutes
with t he hatch.
I thought perhaps it might
have been stuck in the manner that the hatch got
stuck in the Wet M Ock, where it just was stuck.
You could ratchet it open, but the hatch itself
wouldn ' t open. It was pretty apparent the trouble
was in the gain pawl .
I jimmied it back and
forth, and then I decided to go ahead and try
the technique of actuating it in sequence
with the hatch handle . If you actually replaced
the operation of the spring with mechanically
moving the gain pawl up and down, you can do
the same work that the spring does.
EONFtDENTIA~