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  1. 23-01-2021, 11:41 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hsing-ee View Post
    Airmasters and Venom were the two big ‘tuners and modifiers’ back in the day. Venom sold good kits as well. But today they are a dozen or more excellent tuners and modifiers offering bespoke solutions to improving a springer, some of them far more radical than Venom. The knowledge and skill is more widespread and diverse now so people can go after particular solutions. True there are only a few stock makers to choose from but CS offers a good range at a low price to the individual wanting to get a better fit. There’s fewer people willing to spend a fortune on a full custom springer since the PCPs arrived. There are several good spring guide kits available and several different aftermarket brands of piston and breech seal. It’s a bit like the market for airguns in the U.K. was once completely covered by Webley and BSA; there are many more options today.

    Venom were pathfinders and now there’s a whole complex market.

    I think their main legacy are the innovations included in the Air Arms springers, the TX and the ProSport, which basically offer a Venom type tune out of the box. Apart from all the old Venom custom rifles that drive the collectors into a frenzy ...
    I'm of a similar mind, times move on, and so does the development, these tuners in their day were some of the best available, but now they are collectors pieces and not any better than some of the more modern tunes done in "sheds" (read as fully set up machined workshops ) that are now in circulation. All that would be carried over is the name, not necessarily any improvements beyond others already available in what is not a huge money making market.
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  2. 23-01-2021, 06:49 PM #2
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    I can do a springer improvement kit

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roughneck-R...c=1&th=1&psc=1
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    I will be taking over the popular stage one kits.
    .22 Venom Mach 1 (FAC) 6-25x56 Millett.
    .22 Venom Mach 2 Thumbhole 6.5-20x40 Leupold EFR.
    .22 Venom Mach 2 Sporter 4-12x40 Leupold.
    .177 Venom Vantage 4-16x50.
    .177 Venom Daystate 8-32x56 AGS.
    .22 Venom Datstate 4-16x56 AGS.
    .22 Webley Venom FX2000 6-18x40 Busnel Legend.
    .177 Titan MPT by Steve Pope 6-24x40 Tasco.
    .177 Pro-Sport 4-16x50.
    .22 Webley FX2000 3-9x33 Leupold EFR.
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    Tuners

    Venom, Airmasters and Ken Turner did wonderful stuff. Masters of their art hence why some of there stuff is copied to this day some 35 years later. Often equalled but never bettered. Mach 1.5
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    Quote Originally Posted by venoman View Post
    I will be taking over the popular stage one kits.
    That is good to know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by venoman View Post
    I will be taking over the popular stage one kits.
    Well done, hope it works out for you
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    Quote Originally Posted by venoman View Post
    I will be taking over the popular stage one kits.
    Good news, I'm sure this is what Steve would have wanted.
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    that is good news
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steyr View Post
    I can do a springer improvement kit

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roughneck-R...c=1&th=1&psc=1
    I believe that is a stage 2 HW35 kit.

    We start at stage four and go as far as stage 17. For this highly specialised service we press your trousers and pick dog hairs from the inside of your gunbag
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    Quote Originally Posted by tinbum View Post
    I believe that is a stage 2 HW35 kit.

    We start at stage four and go as far as stage 17. For this highly specialised service we press your trousers and pick dog hairs from the inside of your gunbag
    Stage 17, you say? That's Tunerwang!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steyr View Post
    I can do a springer improvement kit

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roughneck-R...c=1&th=1&psc=1
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