Stirrup Pumps

[rapidresponse1]

totally agree with above

[mallyally]

pump hahahaha ! tried one years ago waste of time gunshops love you buying them because its a return sale
When you go back and buy a bottle

[Trumpetier]

If your able bodied and reasonably fit, using a pump ain't a problem. Pumping cylinder guns is relatively easy imo, bottle guns though ,R10 for example, bugger that.

[WILBA]

If your able bodied and reasonably fit, using a pump ain't a problem. Pumping cylinder guns is relatively easy imo, bottle guns though ,R10 for example, bugger that.

Second this. Cylinder guns are ok but bugger trying to pump a r10/rapid bottle.

[Halimede]

Interested in this. I decided to get a second (smaller) bottle as a backup instead because I live in Cumbria; a pretty damp part of the country and I worry about the water vapour which is always in air, getting into my guns. Where I used to work (now retired) we ran nice German 11kw industrial compressors and removed about 30 litres of condensate from each on most damp or rainy days. We cooled the air before it got to the dryer.
How much water does a hand or portable electric pump remove? I imagine that using a hand pump, one would have to pump slowly and have the trap quite a long way from the pump to get the air cool enough to drop much moisture out of it. How effectively do the portable electric compressors do this? A 300 bar heat exchanger sounds a bit special; or am I missing something?
I have the luxury of using bottled air and I get them filled at a dive centre. This is because they supply breathing air and so far as I know; breathing air is always well filtered and dried.

[StellaArtois Sr]

At our range we have had many people turn up with a stirrup pump. We say to them about buying a bottle but
they reply I don't mind doing this I do it all the time at home in the garden.

I then say it's one thing doing it twice in the garden but when you're down here all day and you do it 5 or 6 times
you will change your mind, no no no I am happy for the exercise.

The next time they turn up with a bottle.

Ade

[angrybear]

I know a few years back the Brocock & Webley stirrup pumps were badged FX made, & the instruction leaflet still said FX on it,

Most moisture is removed by condensation due to expansion cooling, which is why the vent is at the base & when you vent it, drops of water come out, (ps always leave the vent open after use)
generally the inline filters are for particulates not moisture.

The main differences are the number of stages, good ones now are 4 or 5 stage, and the basic build quality / parts availability.

[brassbanjo]

If your able bodied and reasonably fit, using a pump ain't a problem. Pumping cylinder guns is relatively easy imo, bottle guns though ,R10 for example, bugger that.

I found that pumping a bottle gun is OK as long as you don't try to do it all in one go. Of course this assumes you are not in any great hurry to recharge