I had an arrangement with the Crosman importer.He would send me a brace of every new Crosman/Benjamin pistol that came on the market. The Crosman 451 CO2 pistols were $NZ34 a piece. Crosman Trapmaster shotties were $NZ106 for gun/loaded shells/target set-up and bulk-fill gas bottle. Same folk handled Eastern Bloc guns and Webley. I'd browse the 'spare parts' bins,make up a nice new Premier or Predom...for about forty dollars. Well worth driving from the Waikato to Auckland!
I see you have some P08 (Luger) replicas. The Erma real firearm copy of the Luger was also made in "monkey metal". The real P08 Luger required around 600 machining operations to produce, much too expensive today, so I can understand modern production using Zamak alloy.
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all plastic! Top is actually a Kruger(shoots No.8 shot with pathetic aid of a big cap).The other two are Daisy softies.
All the new CO2 LUGER type air pistols are monkey metal, some are quite good performers. Below is the Erma copy which came in three calibres, .22 RF 32 acp and 380 (9mil short), also made in Zamak (monkey metal) with steel barrel liner. They are about two thirds the size of the original P08.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=er...w=1366&bih=652
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Zamak got a bad name because up to about 1950 it was notorious for rapid metal fatigue and cracking. For example I have seen many a Haenel 26 pistol with a cracked frame which you daren't shoot in case the two parts went their separate ways. Once it was realised that traces of lead impurity in the zinc component were causing the problem extremely pure zinc was used in the mix and this solved the problem. So relatively modern Zamak guns should be as durable as steel, if not as strong.
The way things are going, we will be looking back fondly at Zamak guns when everything is made of ABS plastic, or even worse made by digital printing.