That looks very much like a Relum Tornado?
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That looks very much like a Relum Tornado?
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They are telling me it’s a Diana?
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relum tornado
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Thanks, found it in Hillers book, obviously the guy in the gun shop had it wrong. Do these have any good qualities or are they just cheaply made rifles?Originally Posted by wil95k
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may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
It's one of the most Communist rifles you can get hold of. FEG used to make these things in Hungary while it was dominated by the Soviet Union; the company still exists now it is back in the happy pastures of capitalism, but now it makes Mauser-type centrefires for wealthy hunters. During the Cold War the Eastern bloc countries used to sell consumer goods like this to the Brits at a bit of a loss so they could get their hands on some exchangeable currency.
The Tornado is a heavy, agricultural tool with two mainsprings one inside the other. This is a terrible arrangement and is best replaced with a guide and a single mainspring. It has a heavy trigger and a spectacular design fault in the form of a loading tap lever which points forward from the tap, thus it is easy to get it out of alignment. Some people have expended considerable energy on 'tuning' and improving them, but generally their efforts have not been rewarded and the rifle is best kept as a plinker. As far as I remember the cocking has poor mechanical advantage and the piston head is rivetted on which makes improving the gun a machine-shop job, and all in all it's a bit of a clunker.
They were seen as typical Communist products; sturdy, ugly and not very efficient, but which would still fire after being run over by a T-34 tank and then left in the bottom of a swamp for a year. I'm surprised there's one in America, must have been brought in by the CIA for study. On the BBS it's pet name is the 'Hungarian Swamp Donkey'. The break-barrels that FEG made were a bit better so I believe.
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I've seen a couple versions of these FEG / Relum / Telly underlevers here in the USA, one (maybe a later example?) had the squared-off slabby stock. They may have been imported by Precise Imports Corporation who marketed several Communist air rifles under the brand name "Minuteman". They are definitely a great example of Eastern Bloc crude but effective execution, however I disagree about their durability under a tank attack as one of mine had the cheesy tap lever broken right off.
P.S: The guy listing the two rifles clearly has no idea what they are, but to draw attention he titled them with names he's heard somewhere.
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may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
That has got to be the most ironic branding ever, considering the original Minutemen as defenders of liberty and the Cold War missile of the same name!
The tap lever was intentionally sabotaged by quality control so Westerners would be forced to buy another one ..
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Sounds plausible.
On a different note: Do you know anybody who might be interested in a nice Cadillac Eldorado?
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