Wanted: John Bowkett tuned Meteor

[johnbaz]

I have a Mercury that was tuned (And customised a bit!), It had an axis bolt/nut fitted among other stuff done, It was done by a gent called Ed Bishop, I think from Essex, It's a lovely rifle and much more positive on the lock up that the other Merc's I have




I was told (If my memory serves) that the axis bolt assembly came from a Haenel but it looks more like a HW affair to me!






Cheers, John

[Bluefan]

I have a Mercury that was tuned (And customised a bit!), It had an axis bolt/nut fitted among other stuff done, It was done by a gent called Ed Bishop, I think from Essex, It's a lovely rifle and much more positive on the lock up that the other Merc's I have




I was told (If my memory serves) that the axis bolt assembly came from a Haenel but it looks more like a HW affair to me!




Cheers, John

That looks very foxy

[jirushi]

@johnbaz, very foxy indeed!
If you want to bin the Meteor cylinder, then I might be able to refurbish it :-)
I am going to do some experiments on a Meteor Mk5, to see how good I can get it.
I'll leave my pristine Mk5 (photo) as it is, for originality's sake.

The actions to be taken:
- fit a screw at the rear of the action, to act as a scope stop. Yesterday some nice Sportsmatch 13 mm rings arrived, which fit well, but I think a scope stop will still be needed.
- fit a HW style barrel axis bolt
- increase the preload of the barrel latch pin spring for a better lock up
- remove about 2mm from the top of the piston head
- perhaps add a piston weight
- enlarge the transfer port to 4mm
- deburring/polishing the relevant areas
- Hsing-ee has been so kind to offer me his Maccari piston buttons thank you Hsing-ee
- and I have ordered a nylon spring guide and top hat. I believe I will have to apply some molybdenum grease on these
- there will also be a spring from Piggy to experiment with different spring lengths thank you piggy
- I'd also like to change the front stock fixing screws to allen bolts
- Maybe - maybe - I'll fit a Lightning trigger mechanism. The trigger casing is the same on the Lightning (and Spitfire) and Meteor, it's simply a matter of making a few holes. I have a spare Lightning trigger mechanism. Not sure if it will improve things, not sure if it will be any lighter.

I know this all sounds a bit far-fetched for a Meteor, but the idea of doing all this makes me kind of happy and excited.

Cheers :-)

[Shed tuner]

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....wer-BSA-meteor

JB

[jirushi]

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....wer-BSA-meteor

JB

Very nice thread JB, thank you.
You got some great results from your Meteor.
HW piston seal, HW breech seal, top hat.

Is there any chance that you could make another HW seal carrier?
And have you fitted a scope (stop)?

Ps. Just saw that you're looking for a PH Phoenix, I sold mine a while ago, but I still have a seal kit and one or two spare hammer springs if you would like to have those. I was thinking about what to do with them just yesterday

[johnbaz]

@johnbaz, very foxy indeed!
If you want to bin the Meteor cylinder, then I might be able to refurbish it :-)
I am going to do some experiments on a Meteor Mk5, to see how good I can get it.
I'll leave my pristine Mk5 (photo) as it is, for originality's sake.

The actions to be taken:
- fit a screw at the rear of the action, to act as a scope stop. Yesterday some nice Sportsmatch 13 mm rings arrived, which fit well, but I think a scope stop will still be needed.
- fit a HW style barrel axis bolt
- increase the preload of the barrel latch pin spring for a better lock up
- remove about 2mm from the top of the piston head
- perhaps add a piston weight
- enlarge the transfer port to 4mm
- deburring/polishing the relevant areas
- Hsing-ee has been so kind to offer me his Maccari piston buttons thank you Hsing-ee
- and I have ordered a nylon spring guide and top hat. I believe I will have to apply some molybdenum grease on these
- there will also be a spring from Piggy to experiment with different spring lengths thank you piggy
- I'd also like to change the front stock fixing screws to allen bolts
- Maybe - maybe - I'll fit a Lightning trigger mechanism. The trigger casing is the same on the Lightning (and Spitfire) and Meteor, it's simply a matter of making a few holes. I have a spare Lightning trigger mechanism. Not sure if it will improve things, not sure if it will be any lighter.

I know this all sounds a bit far-fetched for a Meteor, but the idea of doing all this makes me kind of happy and excited.

Cheers :-)

Unfortunately it went to the dump years ago, Or at least i'm pretty sure it did!!

I bought four Meteors that had been at a boy scouts camp and were wrecked!

I managed to put two working rifles together and had two lots of scrap left over!, The guns had square Airforce springs fitted and the piston heads with the '8' hole in the end were actually torn off, I managed to weld two up, Also two had been fired whilst the barrel was open and the jaws were pointing uppards!, Two stocks were salvagable. The other two were used to practice chequering on with a home made chequering tool, It was rubbish!!


If it does turn up in the garage you're welcome to it but i'm pretty sure that all that was left was two pistons that were torn apart!!


John