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    The price of airgun spares

    I am regularly amazed at the the price of even simple airgun parts such as O rings. This set me wondering how much it would cost to assemble a gun entirely from spare parts if it were possible. I think it would be eye watering.

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    You pay for the fact they have to keep thousands of parts in stock and may not sell many of them.

    Don't they come in handy though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noz1 View Post
    I am regularly amazed at the the price of even simple airgun parts such as O rings. This set me wondering how much it would cost to assemble a gun entirely from spare parts if it were possible. I think it would be eye watering.
    With the prices on that auction site it's quite possible to cost you a hell of a lot more than to buy a new one from the shop. It's the older parts that become costly,

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    A car magazine priced up the parts to build a car and I'm sure it was a good deal more than buying it as a complete car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bighit View Post
    A car magazine priced up the parts to build a car and I'm sure it was a good deal more than buying it as a complete car.
    In 1989, I priced up all the parts needed to build an MGB GT, and stopped when the total passed £25,000. You could buy a very tidy example for £8,000 at the time.

    Some years before that, I priced up the components to build an HW77, and seem to remember it being about four times the price pf a new rifle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bighit View Post
    A car magazine priced up the parts to build a car and I'm sure it was a good deal more than buying it as a complete car.
    A bike mag did it the 90's with a Honda fireblade.

    And IIRC it came to somewhere in the region of £70-£90k!!!
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    I used to work for a lighting manufacturer. They had a spares section that was the most profitable section in the business. On average the mark up on component price was at least 300%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murphy View Post
    A bike mag did it the 90's with a Honda fireblade.

    And IIRC it came to somewhere in the region of £70-£90k!!!
    I remember the bike one also .

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTDT View Post
    In 1989, I priced up all the parts needed to build an MGB GT, and stopped when the total passed £25,000. You could buy a very tidy example for £8,000 at the time.

    Some years before that, I priced up the components to build an HW77, and seem to remember it being about four times the price pf a new rifle.
    I know when I worked in the engine recons ,you could buy the parts of the hydraulic valve timing for the Rover kV6 engine separately.
    It was £700 or so for the motors but two complete heads were £850 or so for the pair complete with the hydraulic motors on them. .

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    Quote Originally Posted by noz1 View Post
    I am regularly amazed at the the price of even simple airgun parts such as O rings. This set me wondering how much it would cost to assemble a gun entirely from spare parts if it were possible. I think it would be eye watering.
    If the manufacturers give o ring sizes and hardness you can buy them much cheaper from eb8y by the 10. Ditto most screws.
    I try to mike them and buy them that way. Then I can replace them 9 more times for free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TenMetrePeter View Post
    If the manufacturers give o ring sizes and hardness you can buy them much cheaper from eb8y by the 10. Ditto most screws.
    I try to mike them and buy them that way. Then I can replace them 9 more times for free.
    I needed a grub screw years ago and my local hardware shop had them but only sold them in 10's.

    And it was still cheaper than one from Hull cartridge.

    I think I still have 9 somewhere if anybody needs one.
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    My first port of call for all screws, washers, 'O' rings etc is my local friendly engineers merchants.
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