Quote Originally Posted by jirushi View Post
I forgot to reply on your interesting comments, HW77.
I have had a look at Paul Watss on Youtube.
Fascinating!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nqMvKBgHVo

Paul's Youtube channel is cool. Lots of things to learn from him.

This is the Beeman R7 after lots of work.
The stock was quite dry and the grain open, so I did 5 coats of CCL oil (1 per 48 hours). I needed a bit of CCL oil hardener at the end, and think that it's simply turpentine?
Seems to work well at getting excess oil off, and giving a hard, dry feeling to the finish.

I installed a Vortek PG4 kit. The internals were standard and ok, but shooting behaviour is much better now. Velocity went up from 610 to 675 ft/s using 7.33 gr JSB. That 7.4 ft/lbs, which sounds fine for a HW30.

I took the Rekord apart and removed the old, hardened grease. Polished the sears and lubed with moly grease.

The hardest part was curing the galling problem. This gun was galling a lot; deep tracts in the outside of the cylinder. I filled them up with JB Weld and made an insert for the cocking link, using plastic cutting board. It was a lot of work to get the dimensions of this insert exactly right. Now there's no galling "no mo".

Nice work.