Westlake S2

[TonyL]

I have acquired one of these today for the princely sum of £0!

The little thing has far exceeded my expectations and is a joy to use. Simple, seemingly robust spring pistol fun. Trigger far better than I would have guessed and the firing cycle is extremely civilised.

Does anyone know of any strip down guides / schematics? It's dieselling heavily and I think would generally benefit from a strip, clean and re-lube?

Thank you in advance.

[TonyL]

Seemingly very little information on these.

However, I came across a video earlier and just about wet myself laughing watching this guy's antics!

It was a foreign video so I couldn't understand him talking. The pistol was already in bits and he was at the stage of re-fitting the piston and spring.

The spring was crudely chopped at both ends with lovely, sharp jagged ends. No spring guide. He poured quite a liberal amount of oil all over the piston and a good measure more into the cylinder. Fitted piston. Then inserted spring. There wasn't a guide, just a washer at the back of the spring. Now, there was only minimal preload, but he has this washer resting on the spring and then compressing it with a screwdriver which is trying to slip off. He needs to get the washer far enough down so that the cross pin (Meteor stylee) can be inserted and he keeps making a proper old mess of it. The pin, once eventually inserted, just rests on the plain washer. Plenty of scope for improvement methinks, then, when I have a tinker.

I'm thinking degrease, clean, inspect seal and action accordingly, source a suitable spring and alter and finish properly, spring guide and top hat and then a more suitable design of retainer for the mainspring so that you haven't got a fairly narrow round pin up against the flat washer. Thinking along the lines of the part as fitted to a Supersport / Lightning.

Should improve this remarkably civilised feeling budget pistol even more.

Oh yes, at the end of the video he has a dirty great big hammer and isn't half whacking the hell out of the end plug to refit it!

Haven't laughed and cringed in equal measure so much in years!!

[averageplinker]

I bought one of these Chinese break barrel pistols about 20+ years ago. Mine was rough and inaccurate but was only about £25 new.

[TonyL]

I understand that build quality will be variable, but my experience so far has been very different.

I was given it for free. The owner told me it was rough and that it fired when returning the barrel after cocking. So my expectations were very low and I had had no first hand experience of them.

It certainly looked rough but I quite warmed to the rugged solidity and the styling of the breech block and foresight arrangement. I cocked it but didn't load and whacked it really hard a fair few times and it was fine. I kept cocking, de-cocking, cocking and whacking and all good. So then decided to have a plink.

And I was pleasantly surprised.....trigger fine, not heavy, but quite crisp and predictable. And the fring cycle very refined. So it far, far exceeded my expectations. It's the .22 smoothbore version. I tried it at just three yards to start with and then moved to between six and seven yards and, if I did my bit, was grouping at about an inch and a half. Dieselling, as mentioned. And not one hint of the gun going off by itself. I even treated it to an oiling with 3-in-1 and the metalwork looks okay. Prior to that it was caked in stuck on gunge.

I thought I'd be taking it home, trying it out and maybe just stripping for fun and then lobbing it, but I'm now quite intrigued as to how nicely I can get it to shoot with a low budget fettle.

[Walnut Stox]

I have one of these which I purchased in the early nineties. It's the .177 version, with a rifled barrel. I've tried adjusting the sights but it's still wildly inaccurate; at six yards I have to hold under by about six inches and slightly to the left. When I do that, it's perversely satisfying watching the pellet curve up and strike the target. I hear that its muzzle power is only about 2 ft/lbs. I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. Even my son and young cousin are giving it a swerve!