Originally Posted by
ggggr
We are all different
. I would strip and clean it,remove any obvious burrs etc and then use a very small amount of gn paste or a dry slide like thing on the cylinder,inside and out of the piston, guide and mainspring, a drop of Sm 50 on the cylinder before replacing the piston and a bit of LT2 on the mainspring. I usually use an old tooth brush to scrub this onto the spring as I have seen guns dripping with the stuff. After that I would just use a Sm50 every so often (not very).
I wouldn't. If it works well let it be. The problem with these Webleys is they way they were built. Basically, the roll pins through the plastic of the forend, apart from other places. It is easy to mangle the plastic rather than push the pin out, if one is heavy handed. Or in other places damage the (unreplaceable) paint finish. Similarly, a bit of misalignment on the assembly, and you could potentially even crack the plastic completely. Not to mention that it's fiddly to retain the gun safely while banging away at a punch, aiming at a roll pin that is barely 2mm in diameter. A recipe for possible disaster of the misplaced hammer swipe kind... Not impossible of course but it's something that I'd not wish the average DIY bodger to undertake.
Aside, one place I'd look when buying one of these, is at the roll pins. If the gun has been taken apart, there is no hiding this fact, the ends are usually mangled. Bye bye mint. A compltely untouched one has got to be worth more.
Truly, these guns were not desiged to be taken apart at all frequently, and, since they are springers capable of shooting well close to forever - why bother? It's not like we have an FT air rifle that we want to run 11.9 ft/lbs with a 3fps spread. Who cares? It hits the tin cans, it's mint out of the box, end of. IMHO.
**WANTED**: WEBLEY PATRIOT MUZZLE END; Any Diana/Original mod.50 parts, especially OPEN SIGHTS