Can anyone help me out with my reel?

The click check is not working & it's spinning freely which resulted in a birds nest of line when I was playing a fish yesterday.

Basically the clicker peg is not engaging on the checkwheel teeth, there's a gap of around 1-2mm.

I can't see anyway of taking off the knurled adjustment nut for the checkwheel teeth.

I know JT mentioned a problem with the drag on the earlier models so I'm just wondering if anyone has a known quick fix rather than me sending it back to Hardy for repair.

Cheers

Sainty.

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