Diana G36 from my childhood.

[NickG]

Short history, I had a Diana g36 passed down to me from my elder brother when I was 13 in 1964, had a lot of fun with it plinking in the garden, eventually it got forgotten and left to rust in a loft, moving on a few years!, it resurfaced recently as I was practicing my polishing to get some blacking done , had three guns done in the end , the g36 included , so decided to put it back together .
I have converted the piston to synthetic lip seal , a sized TX 200 that seems to be sealing ok, made a new breech seal out of nylon , blued this up and its seating well.
I have now come to a problem with the spring, I can remember my Dad taking me to a local gun shop to source a stronger spring to "get the power up ", so its got a monster spring with way too much preload , problem is I cant find the specification for the spring anywhere, so wondered if any of you knowledgeable chaps have any Idea what the original might have been like , fingers crossed and thanks in advance .

[Shed tuner]

Short history, I had a Diana g36 passed down to me from my elder brother when I was 13 in 1964

No way you are 20 years older than me mate....

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[NickG]

No way you are 20 years older than me mate....

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Sorry been a bad day , tired etc that should have been 1972 , should have proof read it first doh

[NickG]

Found a bit of info looks like it may be 3 mm wire 235mm long

[Josie & John]

Try Protek Supplies in Bognor Regis. They may well have a suitable spring. Recently Protek had a batch of original springs for the Webley Falcon, which was a similar rifle, so the springs may well fit the G36 - lovely rifles by the way and very much underrated IMHO.

John M

[NickG]

Try Protek Supplies in Bognor Regis. They may well have a suitable spring. Recently Protek had a batch of original springs for the Webley Falcon, which was a similar rifle, so the springs may well fit the G36 - lovely rifles by the way and very much underrated IMHO.

John M

thanks will be having a look at it this week

[Craig-P]

No way you are 20 years older than me mate....

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Sorry been a bad day , tired etc that should have been 1972 , should have proof read it first doh

I’ve just said to my Mrs, ‘Nick is in sterling condition, didn’t realise he was as old as that’.
I’ll have a word with a mate of mine, Nick - he may well have a Webley Falcon spring.

[NickG]

Apparently it's the memory that goes first, I think ? Thanks Craig.

[Craig-P]

Right, my mate doesn’t have a spring but he tells me the Falcon spring is the same as all the Hawk and Osprey springs. They have a model available (not a genuine Webley spring) at Sporting Supplies, Bloxwich. Im on site all this week but can pop in at the weekend for you if you want?

[evert]

Isnt the G36 a version of the Diana/Milbro Model 27, so they use the same spring?
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