pcp air pistol cylinder testing.

[tim56]

A friend of mine is looking to buy a Steyr LP10 air pistol for 20 yard club shooting.
The one he has seen has cylinders dated till 2025 and asked me this is a problem.
Do we have to get the cylinders pressure tested.?? Iv got an Evo and have never
given it a thought until he mentioned it although I dont know how they could be
tested without filling to higher pressures which could weaken them anyway.
Anyone had theirs tested.??

[mikec4]

Small capacity cylinders fall outside the testing regime applied to dive bottles (2.5 yrs) and surface use bottles (5 yrs).

Out of date cylinders for PCP weapons will only be problematical for National and International events run under ISSF rules.

If your friend is still concerned, the cylinders can be resealed by a competent person or gunsmith.

My Pardini K12 has cylinders dated 2015 and has been resealed and checked; I'll get them done again next year.....

ATB
Mike.

[tim56]

Thanks Mike. Have just checked mine and they are dated 2017. We shoot the Hendon postal league
with them. Daft really. Our club shooters all have section one stuff to play with but we still like our
air guns, older the better.