Just a quickie and I apologise if it's been covered before, but if you couldn't easily come across an LGV piston, how much work would be involved to get the TX piston to work? Thinking about the cocking shoe arrangement and sear...
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Just a quickie and I apologise if it's been covered before, but if you couldn't easily come across an LGV piston, how much work would be involved to get the TX piston to work? Thinking about the cocking shoe arrangement and sear...
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The TX piston I have looked a bit short, so that sounds right.
I have two extra TX rods, one original and one really long from Bigtoe/Tony Leach, so making a piston would be possible.
Maybe the old B26 25mm tube could be a suitable tube for the sleeve? The cylinder without cutouts may be too short.
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Question to you guys who have done a lot of piston work:
If a reduced diameter piston was built from several parts: front, rod and body, would threading the front into the body be strong enough to endure the cocking forces?
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Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.
It was a pretty long time ago when I had a Century, but Nick STanning made me a TBT kit up (think I used a 97 export spring, 3.1 wire, 14.3ID) and it shot pretty well at sub 12
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You won’t need to open the T.P . It’s 3.2 on UK models , 3.4 on full power models. The FAC versions also had the LGV profile piston seal and thicker gauge spring .
After some more shooting, I'm beginning to like this setup even more.
The gun is as accurate as anything, but small mistakes in the recoil management does ope groups more than with the TX or HW97.
But even though the recoil is present, it is not unpleasant, and seems quite balanced, theres no "nodding" or jumpyness.
But the muzzle blast is quite loud and sharp, mounting a silencer really had a large effect.
So the next project might be a short silencer that matches the diameter of the muzzle weight.
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Well, I just shot some groups with a well adjusted HW95, and this gun shoots just as good as anything, so the 80/85/95/98 has a lockup that is more than good enough if properly adjusted.
But the Centrury/LGV seems even a bit sturdier, and for people who have been experiencing lockup issues with full power HW80's, the century's active locking system will probably feel reassuring.
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