Air Arms Anorak

[Rotherham Owl]

I’ve now published the site I have been working on and it can be found at https://www.airarmsanorak.co.uk/

There’s still a lot to be added over coming months but it would be great to get some feedback and feel free to send anything that would be useful for the site – especially some nice photos of your Air Arms rifles for the gallery.

I hope you find it of interest and thanks to all that have helped me out with info.

Steve

[Shoto1]

Well done Steve.

Thank you, first class work.

Onwards and upwards.

[Shed tuner]

"The Springers" section is missing

[Phil Russell]

Excellent read ... thank you.
Now I somehow doubt if this is relevant and I may have mentioned it before but I am interested in your comment about a 100 series carbine. Some years ago I bought what was described as an Air Arms Chameleon .177 rifle at auction. It was covered in camo tape, action, stock, the lot so a thorough examination was not possible. On getting it home the tape was stripped off to reveal an obvious 100 series action type; a chrono test showed it to be way ott. A strip showed a Cortina suspension type hammer spring and a sort of home made valve head in that the old head had clearly been loose and araldited back on. The action had been 'carbined' by the simple method of cutting the end of the cylinder off, mostly the removable end cap area and welding the air filler valve threaded part back on. The filler valve was thus still removeable but as there was no end plug there was no internal seal. The trigger unit was the match trigger unit. I corrected the power issue but after very few shots, the valve head broke away ... a new replacement was not available but I did try making one. This had limited success as the rifle would only hold air for maybe a month. The cylinder seals were U rings, not standard O rings. I found a supply of these from a local firm.
Interestingly, the user manual (I used to have an SM100) gave instructions on how to adjust the power ... before the AT scene arrived on the block.
I eventually got bored of experimenting with trying to make a new valve head (and failing) so sold the rifle as a project.
Cheers, Phil

[Blackrider]

Excellent production Steve, I wish you well with the venture !

Are you a member down at "Idleback" ?
Atb,
John.

[Pjw18]

Well done Steve
I enjoyed looking through the site and quite a bit of history I hadn’t realised .
Ill have to take some pics of mine and send too Ypo .

Paul

[Rotherham Owl]

Well done Steve.

Thank you, first class work.

Onwards and upwards.

Cheers Shoto.

"The Springers" section is missing

It is in progress mate. The research is done and the pages have been created for the TX's/Pro Elite & Pro Sport. I hope to have it sorted some time this month.The side-levers will follow later.

Excellent read ... thank you.
Now I somehow doubt if this is relevant and I may have mentioned it before but I am interested in your comment about a 100 series carbine. Some years ago I bought what was described as an Air Arms Chameleon .177 rifle at auction. It was covered in camo tape, action, stock, the lot so a thorough examination was not possible. On getting it home the tape was stripped off to reveal an obvious 100 series action type; a chrono test showed it to be way ott. A strip showed a Cortina suspension type hammer spring and a sort of home made valve head in that the old head had clearly been loose and araldited back on. The action had been 'carbined' by the simple method of cutting the end of the cylinder off, mostly the removable end cap area and welding the air filler valve threaded part back on. The filler valve was thus still removeable but as there was no end plug there was no internal seal. The trigger unit was the match trigger unit. I corrected the power issue but after very few shots, the valve head broke away ... a new replacement was not available but I did try making one. This had limited success as the rifle would only hold air for maybe a month. The cylinder seals were U rings, not standard O rings. I found a supply of these from a local firm.
Interestingly, the user manual (I used to have an SM100) gave instructions on how to adjust the power ... before the AT scene arrived on the block.
I eventually got bored of experimenting with trying to make a new valve head (and failing) so sold the rifle as a project.
Cheers, Phil

Airmasters produced a "Chameleon" which I believe was a custom HW77. I'm not aware of a Chameleon version of the 100 series rifles but I may be wrong.

What you describe does not sound like the work of Air Arms or Airmasters so maybe someone was passing off a garage customed rifle.

As you say, power adjustment was no secret back then - even the mags would print instructions. I can't remember which rifle it is for but I have an Air Arms manual which says that the police do not look kindly if a gun is more than 1ftlb over the 12ftlb limit!

Excellent production Steve, I wish you well with the venture !

Are you a member down at "Idleback" ?
Atb,
John.

Thanks John and yes, i am a member of Idleback - i was down there earlier this evening.

Well done Steve
I enjoyed looking through the site and quite a bit of history I hadn’t realised .
Ill have to take some pics of mine and send too Ypo .

Paul

I'm please you enjoyed it Paul - there's loads more to come.

Pictures would be great.

[Blackrider]

See you at Idleback sometime, I'm the bloke who just brings Springers !
Looking at your Username, we've probably got something else in common, Blue & White stripes ?

[gingernut]

Good work Steve.

I bought an SM last year.
Thanks to you I now know all about it.

[JB101]

Hi Steve

Good informative site , well done 👍

Regards

James

[Geezer]

Very nice work Steve.

I note that the "jackals lair" website appears, for me, to be down. I forget who created that (Jackel? paddy E?), but maybe you could re-use (with permission) that site's content on the springers. It was a good and authoritative resource.

Geez.

[Baxterbasics]

An enjoyable read-thank you my good man

[bighit]

Very nice work Steve.

I note that the "jackals lair" website appears, for me, to be down. I forget who created that (Jackel? paddy E?), but maybe you could re-use (with permission) that site's content on the springers. It was a good and authoritative resource.

Geez.

I think the guy sold his Air guns that did the Jackal's Lair . Cant remember his user name on here but he was not any that you you listed above

[Rotherham Owl]

Good work Steve.

I bought an SM last year.
Thanks to you I now know all about it.

That's great to hear as it's exactly why I created the site.

Hi Steve

Good informative site , well done 👍

Regards

James

Cheers James.

Very nice work Steve.

I note that the "jackals lair" website appears, for me, to be down. I forget who created that (Jackel? paddy E?), but maybe you could re-use (with permission) that site's content on the springers. It was a good and authoritative resource.

Geez.

Mike had agreed for me to use a link on my site for the under-lever info as I wasn't going to do it for a while. I emailed him a couple of days ago about some manuals so will hopefully hear back from him.

An enjoyable read-thank you my good man

Thanks you.

I think the guy sold his Air guns that did the Jackal's Lair . Cant remember his user name on here but he was not any that you you listed above

[Turnup]

Nice site but do you have Air Arms permission to use their logo? If not then you should remove it as it could get litigious.