Detachment Issues

[webman]

Thanks to ggggr for those kind words. My background is in engineering, and I like to mend things, especially neglected and abused air pistols. Generally I don't form any bond with my projects, but get pleasure from the challenge of getting them working well. This particular pistol turned out to be very accurate and nice to shoot. If I didn't suffer from arthritis in my hands I could well have kept it. It's gone to a good home.

[ggggr]

I really dont do as much as I used to with airguns now but tend to revisit old problems. However, recently i was on the look out for a rough / damagled Webley modifying. I'm not a butcher but reckon if something is boggered in the first place then you cannot really do to much wrong.
A nice chap on here found a late Premier for me, missing grips and a trigger and not cocking--------------with a worn fulcrum. I looked at it and it was a lot better than I thought it would be. I decided to fit a trigger I had in the spares box and thought while I was at it to remove the trigger guard and sear pins. Apparently the late MK1 Premiers had the trggers fitted with the guards in place, so the 2 pins are covered in paint. I wanted to remove the pins. Jeez they were tight!!! The back one I actually had to drill a bit and get some plus gas in the hole and it was still a swine to shift
I cleaned the remaining pins up and found one for the damaged one, then fitted the trigger to the gun. It still wouldn't cock, so I wondered if I reversed the cocking shoe it would work and it did! I fired a couple of shots and had a feeling it would be a good one.

Webman had sent me a set of home made wooden grips when I bought a Mk1 off him the other year and i drilled the holes for the locating peg in them.

Another nice chap off here welded the fulcrum up for me and posted the frame back the other day.

Today I decided to clean it up and put it back together. It fairly flew together apart from a tight pin in the trigger guard. I've still not got the sight spot on (bloody Webley rearsights!) but what a lovely thing it is! The mainspring is slightly tired but the firing cylce is pretty quick. The trigger is light (I'm hoping the sear is not on the way out!) and it is bloody accurate.
So my intended project got kicked into touch and I've got another working Webley.

Sometimes I really do think that they appreciate a bit of effort and some of rough ones are great to plink with