Seems like a good place to talk about my mk1 Vulcan.
I've just put it back together after converting it to .20
I had the gun given when a family friend asked me to have a look at it because it didn't shoot straight.
Turns out he bought it new in 1980ish. And still had half the original tin of pellets given gratis when he bought it.
At some point he had lent the gun to a friend who must have had a mishap of the letting go of the barrel during cocking type.
The skinny barrel had a definite upward bend.
I explained the situation to him at which point he told me to keep it.
So I did...
I got the barrel straight again with brute force and it shot ok.
I stripped the gun found the internals pretty good as would be expected from the amount of use its had.
So I turned a delrin Spring guide, relubed the gun and it shoots sweet but accuracy was always average.
I recently bit the bullet and ordered a HW barrel in .20 from silco.
MAN the original was stuck in the breech block good.....
Stuffed the blank in my little Chinese lathe and made it fit the Vulcan breech block.
I got the barrel and breech block back from being blued on Saturday and built back up Sunday.
I have to say it feels good with abit more weight up front due to the 16mm barrel and accuracy is pretty good.
So I'm now the proud owner of the possibly the only mk1 .20 Vulcan???
Unless someone knows different.
I'm thinking about fitting shims like HW do around the breech block because since polishing for bluing I'm feeling some slight play.
Cheers fellas