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Thread: Other than the great KT has anyone built a decent springer from scratch?

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    Quote Originally Posted by T 20 View Post
    NickG's already built one, Tone --- he made an aluminium TX.
    Ah yes, of course he did. Lovely it was, too.
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    look no hands is offline Even better looking than a HW35
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    Not a springer but I remember having a go with a home made single stroke pneumatic made by one of the members who used to be on here many years ago, boy oh boy was that accurate, I'm not boasting when I say all the pellets went through the same hole but we where in an indoor range.

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    Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in

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    Quote Originally Posted by RustyBuzz View Post
    Very nice Nick. May I ask what grade aluminium you used for this?

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    Nothing special, evil bay purchase 6063 I think

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickG View Post
    Nothing special, evil bay purchase 6063 I think
    Nick that’s a really class job.

    If I can pull off something like that I would be very proud.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardH View Post
    I have seen Ken’s stainless HW design guns and have always fancied building myself a stainless steel HW80 style rifle with some improvements. […]
    Which KT guns have you seen Richard?

    Ken Turner has built several stainless guns, and they were not copies of the HW design, unless we say that any break barrel is a HW80 and an underlever is a HW77… His first stainless gun made in 1982 did use a Rekord trigger from a HW35 but it had a barrel concentric to the cylinder, a cone shaped piston, ¼” long transfer port, O-rings on PTFE piston heads, Delrin pegs on piston (Lazaglide), barrel latch (like the VenomMach 1 and Walther LGV).

    Quote Originally Posted by RichardH
    [...]Has anyone ever done something like this other than this chap in the states.
    This guy in Poland has done a recoiless springer similar to a Whiscombe:

    http://forum-bron.pl/viewtopic.php?t=38715#p525101

    A TX200:

    http://forum-bron.pl/viewtopic.php?f...#263;#p1092346

    He also did a copy of a Rapid, and a Theoben style gas ram, all of these are loosely based on the actual production guns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mach 1.5 View Post
    I wonder what happend to the 77K recoiless KT did back in the late 80's? Mach 1.5
    Hi Paul, it may have looked like a 77k or a TX200 or even an LGU , as you know it was a prototype of the TX200SR, running on sliders, with a freely rotating piston, piston running on Delrin rings, etc. so not really a 77.

    It was made in 1987 and Ken was already trying something new, rather than just tuning old HWs...

    And to answer your question, the prototype slider now lives in the US with a collector.

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