Finally! (Sigh)

[ggggr]

It must be 3 or 4 years ago that Carl ("Gamo Cfx" now, formerly "Ulverston") gave me a really rough Webley Mk one pistol to play with. It is that long ago I cannot remember exactly what was missing. I get the feeling It had one grip. The barrel catch was broken. I think the sear might have been buggered and the barrel band had come loose and torn the cocking arm.
I asked on here for various bits and pieces and looked on Flea bay. David Sanderson (I forget his user name on here) offered to make a new barrel band. He did a great job except the pistol would not cock afterwards .Looking at it next to another barrel, revealed that it had previously been repaired and they had put the band in the wrong place. David very kindly redid the job for me. I ordered a set of grip blanks off Andy (Airgunner .177) and I think John (Duomatic 410) sorted me out with a cheap barrel catch. By now my housing problems had taken a bad turn and everything went in storage.
After finally finding a place, I had a look at the bits and stuck them together. The barrel fitted, the grips looked ok,the piston washer seemed ok and the breech seal I had made seemed dry. It looked like I had put a smaller spring with the gun (maybe a Webley junior or just an odd one?).
Anyhow, today it is up and plinking. A bit down on power with that spring but pretty accurate, shooting at about 5 O'clock now until I adjust the sights.
Was it worth doing? Probably not at all, but the thing is it is now up and running and all the trauma is forgotten about.

[deejayuu]

All very well and satisfying yarn but we like pictures!
PS Glad you got there. This looks even more doable now

[ggggr]

All very well and satisfying yarn but we like pictures!
PS Glad you got there. This looks even more doable now

I still can't do pics.
That is pretty much what the gun looks like now
That is the sort of thing I have had a go at, done in the past. I don't usually try to refinish them unless a bit of a blended in tart up with "Plum Brown". But mostly I can get them plinking again. Some things are just not worth the time,trouble or money at all and I hate leaving things.
If all had gone to plan, this would have been working 2 1/2 years ago.

[scrapman]

...I don't usually try to refinish them unless a bit of a blended in tart up with "Plum Brown".

It's obviously a matter of personal taste, but with older, rusty guns like the one deejayuu posted, I like to just rub them down with steel wool and oil (boiled linseed oil seems to leave a particularly deep and durable finish). Generally a pistol only takes 15 minutes or so to do, and the resulting 'antique' look can be quite attractive. You are then free to spend the next 15 minutes trying to get black muck out from under your nails, and the brown stains off your fingers.

[ggggr]

A bit of an update.
After more unpacking and shifting things about, I found a few more things that had been put to one side until after I moved.
There were 1 3/4 dog rough Meteors in a box, A Mk4 .22 Airsporter that had been left in the box it arrived in with the action and the stock separated for the posting. There was also a rough .177 Airsporter hybrid that sounded like a xylophone when it was cocked.

One Meteor was put together out of the bits, with a few 2ba screws cut down to replace the missing ones. An O ring was fitted and a tap washer to replace the usual crumbly buffer. I found a breech seal in some bits I had. An Smk 4x20 scope was fitted into the clamps of a broken Bsa scope and the gun works ok. It was given to a friend.
The .22 Airsporter had the stock (which is a bit battered and missing the butt pad) lightly rubbed down and an oil finish applied. A pad was found and located with 2 roll pins in the holes in the stock and a bit of glue. The metal work was polished so has been left like that. I found a ball bearing for the loading tap and cut a bit of spring I had to sort that. An O ring and buffer was fitted and I found a suitable spring to cut down in the old springs box. The rearsight was broken and after several attempts, now seems to be stuck with superglue. (I put moly paste on all the bits I did not want to stick).
The .177 Airsporter had a damaged trigger block and I suspected a tight spot on the piston. A block and piston were found and the gun went back together with another spring out of the old spring box. Quite oddly, after about 20 shots the gun would not cock and after looking at various things I decided it was coil bound. A coil off the mainspring sorted that and it now has a period 4 x 20 Bsa scope on to plink with.

I am trying to put together another Meteors for a mates grandson, but am stuck for a trigger guard, trigger pins and an end cap.
Also, A Cadet Major, with a cut down stock,needs a cylinder and piston. I intend to glue a Parker Hale scope ramp to this and fix a scope.
I'm feeling a bit better about getting some of the buggers back into one lump now

[Rob M]

Well done Guy! I may be able to help with some Meteor trigger pins, I'll have a look. Do you know what the dimensions are?

[harry mac]

All very well and satisfying yarn but we like pictures!
PS Glad you got there. This looks even more doable now

Bit o' T cut'll soon 'ave that fettled.

[pjbingham]

All very well and satisfying yarn but we like pictures!
PS Glad you got there. This looks even more doable now

What does it look like 3 years on?