Change the spring/ washer on a classic BSA bell target rifle?
Answer will appear here later
Change the spring/ washer on a classic BSA bell target rifle?
Answer will appear here later
I suppose it depends on the amount of use the rifle gets Peter.
I have some rifles in the collection with their presumed original springs that are still in working order. My assumption is based on the end coils being stamped BSA and the level of crud found inside the cylinder when the piston washer is examined. If the original spring/washer work, albeit at a lower power level than originally intended, why replace them? Must be my mean streak
John
Once a century whether it needs it or not.
1939 then 1959
Might be out of warranty now
What a fantastic find and bit of history.
Thank goodness the note didn’t say help I’m being held prisoner in the BSA factory please contact the police.
Morally flawed
Interested to see that you also own three Daisys.
Back in the heyday of my prewar BSA collecting I used to routinely change the spring and washer in rifles I bought, if the power seemed at all low. But in the process I turned a few well bedded-in, sweet shooters into quite harsh shooters, albeit more powerful.
So I stopped doing it unless power was at rock bottom, or if there was a twang that suggested a broken spring. There's something about a well used but cared for BSA that's hard to reproduce with modern replacement parts, or perhaps it requires a lot of pellets through it first - and a heck of a lot of patience.
So to answer the original hypothetical, it's 'not as often as you'd think'.
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