No, I think you did get it in eventually - at least that's what you said at the time. If you didn't, you owe me the Maccari spring back please.Originally Posted by Hsing-ee
Only kidding, i don't really care any more.
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No, I think you did get it in eventually - at least that's what you said at the time. If you didn't, you owe me the Maccari spring back please.
Only kidding, i don't really care any more.
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For interest, I fitted a Maccari spring when I rebuilt and sealed my 300s. It ended up doing about 8ft/lb with 8.44gn pellets.
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A few years back I had a phase of seeing what I could get out of FWB 300's using springs from Macarri and Pok on here, and up to 8 ft.lbs was achievable.
Now I am happy to run the standard springs and not risk over-stressing other parts of the rifle.
People who have been there focus on the fundamentals. People who sit at keyboards all day focus on the trivial and inane.
may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
Maybe I did get it in .. was it the square section ‘Merlin’ one ... too long ago now. In which case what was the HW50 spring for??!No, I think you did get it in eventually - at least that's what you said at the time. If you didn't, you owe me the Maccari spring back please.
Only kidding, i don't really care any more.
Award-winning Airgun Anorak
No idea about an HW50 spring. HW55?
Square section? SQUARE SECTION? Never! Sounds too much like a 'Hox'. I don't think James Maccari, one of the world's finest spring makers, has ever traded in such horrors, has he?!
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may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
He did, a thing called a Merlin! Maybe it was an Arctic spring, that was the 300 replacement ...
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Blimey! He still does it:
https://www.airrifleheadquarters.com...88/4452198.htm
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Is that the same ‘air rifle headquarters’ that’s been going since the 1960’s?
I bought a fascinating 1967/68 repro ARH catalogue from Cornell publications that have contemporary reviews of all the early 10m match rifles, I think the Anschütz 250 was just about to come out.
https://www.cornellpubs.com/old-guns...p?item_id=2682
Great to read quite in-depth reviews from back when these now revered rifles were cutting edge.
Matt
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Not really Matt. The original ARH was founded by Robert Law in the '60s and JM adopted the name after he died. ARH went bust in the early '80s and Beeman bought a lot of his stock, I read. I don't think JM was connected to the first ARH (maybe he was?). There is continuity of a sort, I suppose.
I also have several of the original catalogues from the 1960s and '70s, as well as a collection of the little Air Rifle Monthly publications he wrote. I must scan them and post them in the gallery so everyone can read them.
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In British slang an anorak is a person who has a very strong interest in niche subjects.
may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
One you start winding springs, you just can't stop.
I really like his website, he is magnificently grumpy in the manner of airgun tuners the world over.
Last edited by Hsing-ee; 19-01-2021 at 09:12 PM.
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Funny you should say that, I haven’t looked at that site since buying a couple of stocks from him back when he did them about 15 years ago and the site had a great long essay about how it was completely impossible to inlet a stock accurately or to supply a finished stock so don’t come grumbling to him that his stocks were unfinished and that your action didn’t fit.
In fairness the actions DID fit and I enjoyed finishing them so I’m not sure why he was so defensive about it
Morally flawed
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