Idiots guide to classic airgun strips (pt 1)

[ggggr]

You should now carefully unscrew the cylinder end cap making sure it doesn,t fly. With cap undone, the sleeve,guide and mainspring should come out. You may need something to ease the piston out. The piston seal on mine was a parachute seal which looked ok. If it needs replacing you will probably need to dip the new one in hot water for a few seconds before fitting. Clean and lube the gun. Refit the piston,mainspring, guide and sleeve (mine had a small hole for the end cap locating screw to go so make sure if it has one that it,s in the right place) and then screw on the end cap. This may be a bit difficult so make sure you dont cross thread it. Tighten cap and replace it,s locating screw. Replace the long cocking link and then the barrel/breech/shim set up and replace the barrel pivot screw and lock screw. Line up cocking links and replace its pin. (mine was slightly bent because some chimp had fitted a big mainspring). Slide trigger into housing and push down long leg of spring (see pt1) so the trigger can slide into place and then refit its pivot pin. Slide sear into place with the hooks over its pin and then refit its spring. On mine this was a bit tricky and took a couple of small screw drivers although I think some models had a screw you could unwind to get the spring in and then retighten. Drop action into grips and refit the screws at front and rear of trigger guard and refit sights.

[ggggr]

This is a well built budget break barrel pistol. I think the Chinese thing is a copy of it. Undo the screws on either side of the frame, the one on the trigger guard and use a forked driver or similar to undo the one on the underside of the grip and remove from the frame. Watch out for the coil trigger spring that should remain behind in the frame. Undo the small locating screw that is on the underside of the end cap. I would now remove the 3 trigger pins. The front one holds the trigger guard, the middle one the trigger and the rear, the sear. There is no trigger spring other than the coil one already mentioned in the frame. Remove the guard,trigger and sear. Undo the barrel pivot lock screw and then the barrel pivot screw. You should now be able to lift the cocking arm out of its slot and remove the barrel. If you want to grease up the plunger, there is a pin through the breech block holding that and the spring in. Do it now and replace. Unscrew the little lock screw on the cylinder end cap and then remove the cap, guide,mainspring and piston should come out. The piston washer is leather and held by a screw. Mine was in good condition so I did not remove it. Clean and lube up the bits and go to part 2.

[ggggr]

Replace piston, mainspring and guide and compress the spring to screw endcap on. Make sure the screw hole is at the bottom as the little screw locates in a slot on the underside of the cylinder. Replace barrel and cocking arm (make sure arm is located) and refit the barrel pivot screw and lock screw. Replace sear from the rear and refit it,s pin, then the trigger and finally the trigger guard screw. Locate the action in the frame, again watching out for the coil trigger spring. Refit the two side screws and then the bottom screw and finally the one that fixes the trigger guard to the frame.
I found this a nice pistol, better than the chinese copy and better than the Tex 86. It does not have an adjustable trigger,safety or anti bear trap but the trigger is better than the Tex. It is an accurate pistol. say it was as accurate as a Webley pistol but aided by a longer sightline. The rearsight is a spring steel one in a dovetail and the elevation wheel was small and stiff. I think this is a good fun pistol if you are into collectables for plinking. I would spend money on one of these rather than a Chinese one.