
Originally Posted by
Hsing-ee
Up until the 90s it wasn't that common to own more than say two rifles and a pistol.
Now the enthusiast will have a whole stable of them.
If you have a whole stable of springers and even worse, project guns, and are holding down a typical modern job that sucks up all your time and energy and have other responsibilities like a family or large carnivorous mammal that cannot exercise on its own or a house that you are building from shipping containers and are brewing your own diesel as well as working three side jobs, then there is a tendency to try to do maintenance and tunes and so on in limited chunks of time.
It may be that you try to take on two or three springers in one mammoth maintenance tune up session.
DO NOT DO IT.
Multitasking was proved to be a nonsense thing some years ago, and most jobs requiring problem solving and conscious awareness are best done in series.
This is even more important with springers. I recommend to ONLY refurb and fix one gun at a time to the point of PERFECTION or GOOD ENOUGH, whatever your standard is.
Fixing them up in series then testing them and then having to make changes without any of them hitting the endpoint is uniquely stressful and will generate dire consequences for your mental health.
I think this is down to the area of the brain that deals with springer issues, the helical boingcephalon (HBC), which can only deal with one combination of transfer port volume, swept volume, piston head material and fit, spring wire thickness, length and spring room, piston weight and pellet peak pressure etc at a time. The HBC is an unusual complex within the brain as it is clearly located in the logical fore-brain, but it also has processes which penetrate deep into the most basic emotional components of the limbic system.
Thus, overstimulating the HBC by trying to tune more than one springer at a time will result in brain-fog, mild depression, anxiety and frustration.
In severe cases to relieve the huge psychic pressure so developed, the enthusiast can be victim to intrusive thoughts of cutting up the springers with angle-grinders, or hurling them off cliffs or into hedges from the window of a car going at 80mph.
Of course there may be a few rare enthusiasts that can take on more than one, or professionals who can do this through long practice, but to me these are like people who can get by on 4 hours of sleep a night like Mrs Thatcher. Exceptional, not like the rest of us. And that kip routine didn't seem to end well for Margaret either.
Look after your HBC. One springer at a time, do it right, get it right, test and enjoy. Then move on.