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I thought Id try here rather than a new thread. Im after a left front panel (pistol grip bit) for a paratrooper. Its a later dark coloured one but its not really important.
I went to the local shop today for a few bits and asked about a set of sights. He whipped out a paratrooper with 3ft of chain attached to the frame by a big pop rivet and gave me a good price. I didnt want another one but it was cheap enough and different to the one I got on Tuesday. I tried a few shots and then it stated to go off on closing the barrel. I took it apart to have a look at the sear. This has a different trigger set up to the other one and the trigger block slides into the cylinder like later gamo,s and meteors. It also has a plastic safety catch,a barrel pivot pin that screws into the jaws and a plastic piston washer set up that may be rivetted? Anyhow,gun stripped,bugger without a spring compressor and used various bits of rod and tube to do it. Cleaned it and lubed it and put in the two small springs I took out of the other. The power was well down so I stripped it again and refitted the spring it came with (looked like a cut down meteor) and took two more coils off it,wanting to give the trigger an easier time. Back together again and seems ok. Pretty accurate and quite punchy but not as harsh with those two coils off. I must not get another one. Anyone got the panel then? I assume the chain ment it came off a fairground at some point?