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    Whiscombe Maintenance.

    If, IF you were fortunate to own a Whiscombe air rifle, where would you obtain spares or who would undertake repairs or maintenance on these superb rifles ?
    Anyone out there undertake this sort of thing ?
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    Am sure john still does work on them

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    Quote Originally Posted by nurek View Post
    He certainly does, in fact I have picked up my gun from John yesterday evening, I had the piston heads replaced and a new HOTS made for the spare .177 barrel.

    John has spares for the most common repairs (damaged heads due to dieseling/dry fire/vacuum fire, o-rings etc.) but not enough to make a new gun.

    Whiscombes are also fairly straight forward to strip down and most capable gunsmiths should be able to maintain them, problem might arise due to spares availability such as pistons which are not so easy to make as I believe they are cast.

    On the other hand the 12ftlbs guns are so under stressed (effectively components are at half stress of a normal 12ftlbs gun) that very little goes wrong with them, the more powerful FAC guns tend to have more problems due to higher stress on components...
    Thanks for that info., good to know he can still maintain them !
    All I need to do now is find one !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackrider View Post
    Thanks for that info., good to know he can still maintain them !
    All I need to do now is find one !
    Good luck with that . I had two and sold them to a collector over in the US. Wish i hadn't now.
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