S200 cylinder leaking. Help please.

[mdunn]

I'm surprised you're gunsmiths haven't got the tools needed, but I'm sure someone will able to help you out. Atb mick

[Trumpetier]

£180 ? Ridiculous

[rapidresponse1]

most gunsmiths can carry the work out

[Nemo]

Thanks for the replies chaps. By the time I got home and sorted things out, it was too late to ring round some other places. He said that the particular tool required to take the end cap off an s200 cylinder was a unique part that you can only buy from Air Arms and was very expensive and he didn’t have one as it wasn’t a repair carried out very often. Hence why he hadn’t shelled out for one. I will ring around some other places tomorrow. Winchester, TAL Arms Christchurch, Portsmouth GC and Lamberts in Ringwood. See what they have to say. Anyone have any experience of the gunsmiths in those particular towns I’ve mentioned? Thanks in advance.
Nemo.

[harvey_s]

Find a new gun shop or better still a local gunsmith... or do it yourself if you feel capable, the correct tool isn't expensive... https://www.huma-air.com/Air-Arms-S2...e-removal-tool

[hmangphilly]

Thanks for the replies chaps. By the time I got home and sorted things out, it was too late to ring round some other places. He said that the particular tool required to take the end cap off an s200 cylinder was a unique part that you can only buy from Air Arms and was very expensive and he didn’t have one as it wasn’t a repair carried out very often. Hence why he hadn’t shelled out for one. I will ring around some other places tomorrow. Winchester, TAL Arms Christchurch, Portsmouth GC and Lamberts in Ringwood. See what they have to say. Anyone have any experience of the gunsmiths in those particular towns I’ve mentioned? Thanks in advance.
Nemo.

Give us shout if you get stuck I'm near ringwood .

[Dave-H]

You can buy the required tool online, costs about £15 ..
The cylinders are a pig to strip though, I’ve done two now ….
If you have access to a vice and big hammer it’s worth buying the tool and a seal kit ……

[Logunner]

2 x 4mm drill bits will fit into the end cap. Clamp the cylinder and use a bit of heat and the drill bits will act as levers.

[WILBA]

2 x 4mm drill bits will fit into the end cap. Clamp the cylinder and use a bit of heat and the drill bits will act as levers.

I do simular to remove my sumatra front end.

[Nemo]

[QUOTE=hmangphilly;8152958]Give us shout if you get stuck I'm near ringwood .[/

Thanks for the generous offer. Much appreciated. I tried replying via PM but your inbox is full and a text message to the number you sent me fails to send.
Cheers.
Nemo

[hmangphilly]

[QUOTE=Nemo;8153597]

Give us shout if you get stuck I'm near ringwood .[/

Thanks for the generous offer. Much appreciated. I tried replying via PM but your inbox is full and a text message to the number you sent me fails to send.
Cheers.
Nemo

Ta mate . sorry i had no idea my inbox was full .
Glad youre sorted . Ypur gunsmith sounds like a good lad

[Troubledshooter]

Glad you got the leaking cylinder sorted.
I too have heard good reports about the Portsmouth Gun Centre, although I've never visited it myself. It's about the closest decent gun shop to me now, since Chaplins went, although Alex is still carrying out servicing and repairs.
I had a similar problem on the S200 cylinder used as a reservoir on my PCP Service rifle, and sent it to a well known member on here who re-sealed it in a very short space of time.