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If you strip all the paint off with a heat gun first, it makes it easier to take apart. Be prepared to do some carpentry if you are going to dismantle the bay and do one window at a time, putting it all back together as you go along.
It's easy to get carried away with the dismantling and you don't want to get things mixed up, or end up with a pile of wood and a gaping hole in your front room.
Take off the rounded bead on the inside of the frame and the bottom sashes will swing out into the room. The parting bead holds the top sash in place and it is nailed into its groove. It's easy to split the parting bead apart, so you need to go easy.
I'd leave the casing where it is and get on a ladder for a weekend, as it's held together with tongue and groove and its really easy to split off the tongues, then you're in a spot of bother. If you want to get at the weights, there should be a pocket piece on the stile below the pulleys. Once you've stripped the paint off the stile, you'll see it. It's likely to be nailed in place at the bottom edge.
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Can you take out the frame as well as the sashes?
The windows are fine, the sashes are painted but the frames need redoing. It's a big bay window so would be tough to take them out I think.