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Thread: The Dinkiest little sidelever ahhhh! Diana Model 0

  1. 06-03-2010, 05:09 PM #1
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    Smile The Dinkiest little sidelever ahhhh! Diana Model 0

    Well, it’s a quiet afternoon but after my plinking session I’m not quite in the mood to do any proper work so I thought I’d share a couple of bits with anyone who might be interested.

    This has to be the Dinkiest little side lever there is! Isn’t it adoreable! I have a soft spot for sidelevers anyway, so when I saw this it seemed inevitable it’d be quietly moving into the wardrobe.

    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana9.jpg
    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana7.jpg

    sidelever detail
    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana8.jpg
    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana5.jpg

    barrel sleeve
    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana4.jpg

    signature
    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana6.jpg


    It’s a Diana model 0, and the impressed stamp of 10.51 to the end of the butt gives it a German manufacturing date of October 1951, though you’d be forgiven for thinking its earlier as the loading tube is the same type as the model 1’s. The action is simply signed ‘DIANA FOREIGN’. The Model 0 was manufactured in Germany from August 1949 until (I think ) 1952. It can fire corks (with the friction fit barrel end removed) or .177 pellets / ball using the brass barrel sleeve. With pellets its easier to load by removing the inner barrel sleeve and seating them at the end. With ball you can load it like a musket, and simply nudge them directly home with a bit of plastic rod.
    Its not as ineffectual as it looks; it chrono’s at just over 200fps so packs a decent punch for its diminutive size!

    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana3.jpg

    In comparison this is it next to a Diana Model 1. These were manufactured from 1913 through to about 1940 and were retailed under a number of trade names as the Diana trademark ended up in Scotland with Milbro after WWII as part of the reparations. This is one of them, retailed under the name ‘Hector’.


    The earlier Dianas tended to have a blued or blackened finish to the tinplate, but this is a lovely shiny chrome. –Check out the superb logo with a schoolboy in his shorts with his rifle!

    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana2.jpg

    And finally… to put the size in perspective, here’s the Model 0 again with its new big brother 46S :

    http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...ink/diana1.jpg


    I can see a mini-series starting.... 'Tales from the wardrobe'...
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  2. 06-03-2010, 05:17 PM #2
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    sidelever

    thats a brilliant thread very interesting reading
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  3. 06-03-2010, 05:25 PM #3
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    Thanks Neil, glad you liked it

    I like the idea of a nickel plated Gat as per your sig. I have one of the original chrome or nickel plated G10's; this old thread might raise a smile
    http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322344
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  4. 06-03-2010, 05:27 PM #4
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    hi bat fink ,lovely and VERY RARE RIFLE,some of thse little rifles i have seen upto £250,enjoy it ,ive had mine since 1985 ,bought new in the box from a second hand shop in b,ham for a tenner,,and it was a pallet load of them
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  5. 06-03-2010, 05:31 PM #5
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    Re little sidelever....ahhh bless.
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  6. 06-03-2010, 05:35 PM #6
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    Thanks Scirroco, when I came across it I had no idea of the value, I was just taken with the condition and its petite size. I gather in the US they were marketed as the Model 10DL; or at any rate I can't find any data to differentiate between them.

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    ive had mine since 1985 ,bought new in the box from a second hand shop in b,ham for a tenner,,and it was a pallet load of them
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    Beautiful!
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    N'awwwww, innit sweet.
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    Would like to try FT but being a short fat stumpy git i would look like a weeble wobbling about, spraying pellets everywhere like a deranged mafia boss
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    Hi Batfink,
    That brings back memories, the Hector was my first ever gun when I was about 12, seems like an eternity(It is), so good to see one again, wish I still had mine. AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
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  10. 06-03-2010, 08:20 PM #10
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    That is incredibly cute. It is as cute as the somewhat younger BSA Merlin which fills the same niche. What were they thinking of?

    Can I borrow it and do a head-to-head performance review on them?
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  11. 06-03-2010, 08:23 PM #11
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    How big IS it...ie. length please?.and no mucky answers please
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  12. 06-03-2010, 08:24 PM #12
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    Diana model 0

    I have one exactly the same with the detacheable barrel, apparently this was done to get around the arms limitations put on the Germans after the war withouit the tube it is just a toy. I have seen scirocco's and it has a one peice barrel and is a model 10 which came first I have no idea. mine is complete in its box with all the bits, I really like kids guns and are always our first choice for plinking with.

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