Sounds a bit overdoing, why just not put the spring in a bucket of thinner. All grease and residue will come out in no time!
Sounds a bit overdoing, why just not put the spring in a bucket of thinner. All grease and residue will come out in no time!
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Fine, if you have a bath of thinners handy, but IPA is preferred, as it doesn't strip ALL oils from the metal, as thinners will do.
Another good tip which I do to my spring guns, is to go to a hobby shop and buy some steel shim then cut it to fit inside the piston, get a steel washer to fit inside the piston. crimp the end of the shim, insert it into the piston, put the steel washer in, then insert the spring inside
What this does is to give extra smooth cocking, and also cuts the recoil down slightly, and makes the spring noise quieter. It's amazing the difference it makes
Another quick tip for sping guns
Get some internal draft excluder, the foan one that goes around internal doors, take the action out of the stock and put some of the excluder every where the action touches the stock, and fit the action back
It makes a little shock absorber between the action and the stock
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