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  1. 19-10-2018, 08:35 AM #1
    NickG
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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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  2. 19-10-2018, 09:17 AM #2
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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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  3. 19-10-2018, 02:49 PM #3
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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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  4. 19-10-2018, 04:01 PM #4
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    IIRC Ginb who made the stocks made an all aluminium HW97k copy from scratch.
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  5. 19-10-2018, 05:56 PM #5
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    Handmade air rifle

    The late great Roy Hutchence designer of the Sterling and Park.
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  6. 19-10-2018, 06:34 PM #6
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    I wonder what happend to the 77K recoiless KT did back in the late 80's? Mach 1.5
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  7. 19-10-2018, 09:32 PM #7
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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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  8. 20-10-2018, 08:40 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by RustyBuzz View Post
    Very nice Nick. May I ask what grade aluminium you used for this?

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    Nothing special, evil bay purchase 6063 I think
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  9. 20-10-2018, 10:10 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by NickG View Post
    Nothing special, evil bay purchase 6063 I think
    Nick that’s a really class job.

    If I can pull off something like that I would be very proud.
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  10. 22-10-2018, 07:33 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardH View Post
    I have seen Ken’s stainless HW design guns and have always fancied building myself a stainless steel HW80 style rifle with some improvements. […]
    Which KT guns have you seen Richard?

    Ken Turner has built several stainless guns, and they were not copies of the HW design, unless we say that any break barrel is a HW80 and an underlever is a HW77… His first stainless gun made in 1982 did use a Rekord trigger from a HW35 but it had a barrel concentric to the cylinder, a cone shaped piston, ¼” long transfer port, O-rings on PTFE piston heads, Delrin pegs on piston (Lazaglide), barrel latch (like the VenomMach 1 and Walther LGV).

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    [...]Has anyone ever done something like this other than this chap in the states.
    This guy in Poland has done a recoiless springer similar to a Whiscombe:

    http://forum-bron.pl/viewtopic.php?t=38715#p525101

    A TX200:

    http://forum-bron.pl/viewtopic.php?f...#263;#p1092346

    He also did a copy of a Rapid, and a Theoben style gas ram, all of these are loosely based on the actual production guns.
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  11. 22-10-2018, 07:52 AM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mach 1.5 View Post
    I wonder what happend to the 77K recoiless KT did back in the late 80's? Mach 1.5
    Hi Paul, it may have looked like a 77k or a TX200 or even an LGU , as you know it was a prototype of the TX200SR, running on sliders, with a freely rotating piston, piston running on Delrin rings, etc. so not really a 77.

    It was made in 1987 and Ken was already trying something new, rather than just tuning old HWs...

    And to answer your question, the prototype slider now lives in the US with a collector.
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