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Howard
It's really not too difficult. If you can service a looseball hub you can probably do this.
Hardest thing is keeping track of all the little bits that jump or fall out as you work.
Those tiny brass cylinders at the top of the 2nd image go through the blue bit and run in grooves in the grey/brown bit. There's also a couple really small springs and ball bearings that go into the blue bit as you slide it inside the larger grey/brown bit in the top image, that's what gives you the detents for open/pedal/firm. Both the brass cylinders and the bearings are keen as mustard to explore the workshop floor!
I'd be a bit more reticent to rip into a fork I'd paid full retail for or one that didn't already have issues but if something's already fucked then what is there to lose?
£15 replaced the only thing I've broken...so far.