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Thread: Other than the great KT has anyone built a decent springer from scratch?

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    Other than the great KT has anyone built a decent springer from scratch?

    I have seen Ken’s stainless HW design guns and have always fancied building myself a stainless steel HW80 style rifle with some improvements.

    The 80 is a nice starting point as most improvements have been tried and the good known mods can be designed in at the start, the trigger unit can be probably the only borrowed bit from a production gun with the rest including the stock and checkering being an interesting engineering exercise for the winter evenings?

    Has anyone ever done something like this other than this chap in the states?

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    When V-Mach had the Mach3 type rifle as a article in the airgunner magazine, I asked Steve if he was planning a b/barrel version and he said he had one on the drawing board.I would definitely put my name down for one if it came a reality..
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    This is weird......
    Is making a gun along HW80s lines a common ambition because I have certainly day dreamed about it.
    Only I envisaged a 10-15% upscaled version just to see what it could do. (Never going to happen)
    So then I thought about a downscaled 80 ment to run at 11.5ftlb.
    I would love to have ago at making my own Spring gun.
    I've got the book "modern pneumatic airgun" but H M Buckly somewhere but a homemade pcp filled me with dred
    But a springer would be awesome.
    I hope you do it
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    John Whiscombe used to have a couple of shooting buds back in the day. They both made their own springers, one being fundamentally a side lever, sliding cylinder version of the FWB Sport.

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    If successful, would there then be a desire to produce and sell them commercially? I think the experts from this forum could come up with something quite superlative but only if they could all agree!

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    Nick G is building one .

    I know of 3 others from someone else

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    Yep, I'd heard that Nick was doing one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyL View Post
    Yep, I'd heard that Nick was doing one.
    NickG's already built one, Tone --- he made an aluminium TX.

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    That's right, did one based around a Tx size wise , now have an ally side lever with a 20mm power plant in progress , will see if i can get some pics up
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/dBnccc5CSvvGk6Cz7 component parts
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/sSCcPGeyULQdKgCM7 in home made stock
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/d9gbpvRRnNY2mYTt9 annodised in warren edwards stock
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/7y66TrRDAfr1FTsu9 Side lever gun
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rc3TvSMPngvCPvjB6 ditto
    Last edited by NickG; 19-10-2018 at 09:00 AM.

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    A contact of mine had this titanium rifle based on a TX built by this company.
    The air rifle is about two thirds of the page down, in a Lukas Parsley laminate stock.
    http://www.calibreinnovations.co.uk/custom-works-1.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by NickG View Post
    That's right, did one based around a Tx size wise , now have an ally side lever with a 20mm power plant in progress , will see if i can get some pics up
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/dBnccc5CSvvGk6Cz7 component parts
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/sSCcPGeyULQdKgCM7 in home made stock
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/d9gbpvRRnNY2mYTt9 annodised in warren edwards stock
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/7y66TrRDAfr1FTsu9 Side lever gun
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rc3TvSMPngvCPvjB6 ditto
    That is very nice work Nick
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    IIRC Ginb who made the stocks made an all aluminium HW97k copy from scratch.
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    KT

    I wonder what happend to the 77K recoiless KT did back in the late 80's? Mach 1.5

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickG View Post
    That's right, did one based around a Tx size wise , now have an ally side lever with a 20mm power plant in progress , will see if i can get some pics up
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/dBnccc5CSvvGk6Cz7 component parts
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/sSCcPGeyULQdKgCM7 in home made stock
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/d9gbpvRRnNY2mYTt9 annodised in warren edwards stock
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/7y66TrRDAfr1FTsu9 Side lever gun
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rc3TvSMPngvCPvjB6 ditto
    Very nice Nick. May I ask what grade aluminium you used for this?

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