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Hsing-ee
Stripped the Mercury, there was resinous buffer cheese lacquering the compression chamber and it would not come off until I hit it with the Solvol Autosol and an electric drill.
The spring seemed very straight, there is a ridiculous about of pre-load on these guns and it was a total bastard to get the spring back in, even with the assistance of a spring compressor.
As a result of this I do not like this gun. The cocking effort is quite high, I am not sure if the spring is a Titan or something OTT but I will take it for accuracy testing tomorrow and run in the Meteor 'O' - ring.
While it comes up to the aim brilliantly, and looks like a swoopy beauty, I just keep thinking the HW35 is the better choice of the era.
The last Titan I fitted to to an airsporter had to be cut to 260 mm and is easy to fit. It ought to be the same for a Mercury. After a lifetime of using my Airsporter the 1st time I shouldered a Mercury, it fitted like a glove, better than my 35.
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