Summer bash 2024 3rd and 4th August

[gtfreight]

There's a very nice Simmons Whitetail 3.5-10x40 with dust covers, come into the shop today.
I know some of you seek these out.

Asking £85.

If I sell my Kral barrel, probe and magazine I may well be interested in the scope.

[MikeHW45]

Only a week and I'll be packing my gear in the car Less than a week for you Mike ?




Got the model 50 back together & still oversprung & ludicrously hard to cock, so more coils off the Titan spring it is

Considering softening the airsporter leather seal with olive oil to save having to buy a bottle of neatsfoot, as I'm a Yorkshireman & that neatsfoot is at least a tenner.

I'm hoping for the early arrival for sure. Do you need to soften the seal before the bash. Reason being, i have a decent sized tin of neatsfoot oil and can pop some in a pot and bring with me if thats any good?

[gtfreight]

I'm hoping for the early arrival for sure. Do you need to soften the seal before the bash. Reason being, i have a decent sized tin of neatsfoot oil and can pop some in a pot and bring with me if thats any good?

Is this post a euphemism Mike?

[MikeHW45]

Is this post a euphemism Mike?

[Waddy]

I'm hoping for the early arrival for sure. Do you need to soften the seal before the bash. Reason being, i have a decent sized tin of neatsfoot oil and can pop some in a pot and bring with me if thats any good?

I don't think it will be in one piece before the bash, but I'll take you up on your very kind offer & bring the rock hard seal with me. If it's soaked for the few days of the bash it should be perfect, then I'll pop it in a small plastic bag & it should keep until it all gets put together.

The trigger piece needs re-spraying, I've got etch primer etc so that's not a problem, but last time I had a BSA (Mercury) I had an MDF jig that held the trigger assembly for compressing the spring, wish I still had that !

[flyingfish]

I'm hoping for the early arrival for sure. Do you need to soften the seal before the bash. Reason being, i have a decent sized tin of neatsfoot oil and can pop some in a pot and bring with me if thats any good?

No point in rushing for the sales table Mike if there's no one else there to put anything on it!

[Waddy]

No 22 hobbys in stock.

Redbeck have posted some to me today, so should have them for the bash, thanks Neil.



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[NickG]

It's a bit early for that, Pete. But the weekend's approaching........

I can lend him one, he'll probably shoot it better than me anyhow 🙄

[TonyL]

Got the model 50 back together & still oversprung & ludicrously hard to cock, so more coils off the Titan spring it is

Considering softening the airsporter leather seal with olive oil to save having to buy a bottle of neatsfoot, as I'm a Yorkshireman & that neatsfoot is at least a tenner.

Yep, nice and easy on the preload on the '50, Paul.

Never tried olive oil on leather seals. Hopefully okay? "Back in the day" we'd use some silicone oil, but modern thinking would be to avoid for metal-to-metal. However, if you have it and it's pressed out well, maybe okay?

P.S....Just seen the later posts and the offer from Mike with the neatsfoot. Fine offer and top plan.

[TonyL]

By the looks of things on the BBC weather app thing, he has, probably sacrificed a couple of Guinea fowl it's looking that good


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Yay!

[TonyL]

I suppose with bash weekend rapidly approaching, it's time to whittle down the list of rifles that will be making their way up the A46.

Starter list:
Impact RM100 (if only to get informed opinion as to why I have an intermittent fault with the safety)
Recently fettled Hatsan Model 60 (short stroked, tp sleeved down and re-sprung)
Recently assembly project HW35 (pre-safety, synthetic seal piston added)
XS20 (.177" or .22", or both) both fettled
V-Mach tuned .22" HW77
BSA Imp Mod 'D' (a little something for the bell..)

On the reserve list:

FWB 127 (remember this one Gavin?)
HW80 in.25" (though really it's a pumpkin smasher and shouldn't come out to the autumn..)

A couple of pistols..

As per normal, happy for anyone to have a plink with anything I bring with me.

Could I have some quick plays on the Hatsan, the 77 and the Pumpkin Mangler please, Mark?

[TonyL]

I can lend him one, he'll probably shoot it better than me anyhow 🙄

Oh yes, how many times have we seen Craigy pick up a new-to-him gun for the first time and score consecutive hits on the bucket, shooting standing? And then quietly declare, "it shoots where it points, doesn't it"?

The man's a legend.

[TonyL]

Eight to go for the Saturday peeps.

Just five for you, Mikey.


BOING!

[TonyL]

I don't think it will be in one piece before the bash, but I'll take you up on your very kind offer & bring the rock hard seal with me. If it's soaked for the few days of the bash it should be perfect, then I'll pop it in a small plastic bag & it should keep until it all gets put together.

The trigger piece needs re-spraying, I've got etch primer etc so that's not a problem, but last time I had a BSA (Mercury) I had an MDF jig that held the trigger assembly for compressing the spring, wish I still had that !

Top plan with the neatsfoot oil and great offer, Mike.

If you're going to be springing the Airsporter sensibly and sympathetically, assembly by hand will be safe and do-able. Or you could try with the trigger block in a nice, solid, padded vice (if you have one) and screw the action onto it.

[Waddy]

Yep, nice and easy on the preload on the '50, Paul.

Never tried olive oil on leather seals. Hopefully okay? "Back in the day" we'd use some silicone oil, but modern thinking would be to avoid for metal-to-metal. However, if you have it and it's pressed out well, maybe okay?

P.S....Just seen the later posts and the offer from Mike with the neatsfoot. Fine offer and top plan.

Managed to strip the Model 50, cut off another three coils & rebuild it yesterday evening, with a plastic spin washer at either end of the spring. Before there was about 3mm between the coils due to preload, now there is 4mm. Out of the gun there is 6mm between the coils.

Shot it three times and the power is a measly 6.6 ft/lb s However it's cockable now, almost on par with a 97, it fires with better manners too. The only thing I can think of now is more piston weight, ideally a bit of steel tube the same shape as the spare cocking slot & tack welded in place would be good, but I'll maybe add a few washers instead in the short term.

For now I'll let it bed in & concentrate on making the fore-sight raiser so It can come to the bash.

Only three days of work next week and then it's bash time