Air Arms QC?

[Jonjon79]

Has anyone else had an issue with a new springer from Air Arms?

I've had 4 of their springers now, the other 3 were faultless so, I'm hoping this was just a Friday afternoon job

I picked up a brand new .177 TX200hc recently. When I got it home and first cocked it, it felt rough - I could hear and feel metal against metal contact.

It really wasn't nice.

So, I took it apart and, sure enough, there were scratches and a couple of small gouges on the inside of the main body - it looked like they'd been caused by the leading edge of the compression tube.

Also, the last couple of coils on the spring were bent slightly to the side - I wondered if this was the cause.

A bit of time with some wet and dry around a broom handle and, a Titan No. 10 from the spares box has sorted it.

It's a lovely rifle - I was just a disappointed that it left the factory like that.

[averageplinker]

I have not heard of this on a TX before so am very surprised. However any manufacturer can have a slip up. I have to admit if I bought one new and had the same issue it would be straight back to the shop to be swapped.
Rich.

[Barryg]

Has anyone else had an issue with a new springer from Air Arms?

I've had 4 of their springers now, the other 3 were faultless so, I'm hoping this was just a Friday afternoon job

I picked up a brand new .177 TX200hc recently. When I got it home and first cocked it, it felt rough - I could hear and feel metal against metal contact.


It really wasn't nice.

So, I took it apart and, sure enough, there were scratches and a couple of small gouges on the inside of the main body - it looked like they'd been caused by the leading edge of the compression tube.

Also, the last couple of coils on the spring were bent slightly to the side - I wondered if this was the cause.

A bit of time with some wet and dry around a broom handle and, a Titan No. 10 from the spares box has sorted it.

It's a lovely rifle - I was just a disappointed that it left the factory like that.

Here is a old picture
https://goo.gl/images/jVGWnA

So not new just rare

[Knockedover]

Not an Air Arms springer but 2 of 4 HFT500s I've recently serviced have had issues. Both still with anti tamper intact so untampered with. First was a crushed and blown out transfer port O ring between breech block and action. And the second a loose firing pot wobbling around due to no retaining grub screw.

[lensman57]

My TX 200 is a couple of years old now and my only problem has been the shite trigger. Filed to shape by some 5 year old I believe.

A.G

[Murphy]

My TX was very twangy!

Its internals fitted together like a wet welly.

But nothing like what you mention.

[Jonjon79]

Thank you for the replies chaps

I'm pleased to hear that it's a rare occurrence.

I may have been tempted to take it back and swap it but, I had the last .177 HC that he had in stock and, I'm an impatient twat and a fatal tinkerer

To be fair, it didn't take too long to sort.

I'm slowly learning how to do these things - next up, I'm thinking of polishing the contact faces on the trigger sears and latch rod - I've never had one apart before so, I'm hoping it won't end up being an explosion of springs and pins.

[DJP]

I've had several each of the TX and Prosport. Some have nicely matched components and some don't. It seems to be the luck of the draw.

[DJP]

Not an Air Arms springer but 2 of 4 HFT500s I've recently serviced have had issues. Both still with anti tamper intact so untampered with. First was a crushed and blown out transfer port O ring between breech block and action. And the second a loose firing pot wobbling around due to no retaining grub screw.

I found similar with an AA S500. I removed the anti-tamper plugs to find that several of the screws that should have been underneath were missing.

[severnsider]

Has anyone else had an issue with a new springer from Air Arms?

It's a lovely rifle - I was just a disappointed that it left the factory like that.

I recently bought a lovely TX200 .177 with walnut stock from this forum. It's a beauty, and not old. However, the dovetail "grooves" were very shallow indeed, which makes it quite a faff to get the scope mounts to grip. The last rifle I had with shallow dovetail grooves was a BSA Meteor years ago!