HW35 Fettling

[TonyL]

When I was a lad I had my 35 Luxus Super Venom converted. It was fitted with an o ring piston head just like the one you have there Tony.

Forum member Jonbaz still has one, the giveaway that it was a Venom was the white nylon roller on the cocking arm --- just as Dave and Ivan described in their HW35 tuning article in an airgun magazine.



All the best Mick

March 1983. HW35 - £30. HW80 - £40. Mach 1.5

Thanks, chaps.

[TonyL]

yeah, I kinda feel like Dr Frankenstein when I fire those few few, satisying shots... "It's alive.......!"

My Theoben E-type was probably the most extreme example I've done - bits from Czech Repubic, Italy, Germany, UK and Spain

That's a proper global collaboration effort, Jon!

[Shed tuner]

You be taking it easy, Jon, and don't be doing anything to set your recovery back. How are you doing now? On schedule with everything? What timings are we looking at until you can get back to anything resembling "normal"?

For sure Tone, is so easy to think "oh, I can lift that..." need to engage my brain and plan for the long term. Slow but definite progress thanks, but at least I can drive short distances now, and can just about lift a fork up high enough to shove food into my mouth.. talk about marginal gains !

Reckon I'll be up to proper driving in a month's time, but "close to normal" is still at least 3 months away in terms of decent mobility, and I reckon late summer before I can put any proper force through it. Then another 6 months to get back to my normal levels of strength. All very frustrating, but it's an investment for the long term...

[TonyL]

That's a long road to full recovery for sure, Jon. And, as you say, it might get so tempting at times to think you're okay and push too much - especially so as you get further down the road and feel like you can do almost most things again. That will be much harder to manage. But stick to the plan for the long term gains and all will be good.

[Hsing-ee]

I’ve got a Frankenstein HW35 Export, the cylinder is unusual in that the blueing is different on the breech section and the end block, plus the barrel is a different tone. When I tried to sell it the buyer refused it on the basis of it needing rebluing because of this fault so I’m going to end up having to break it for parts or accept a shitty amount of money for it.

[TonyL]

I'd still be happy to pay fair money for it if I was in the market and it was going to be used as a working field gun. Collectors probably wouldn't, nor those wanting one in "tip top" order?

Is it just the angle on the photo or have we got some serious barrel droop happening there?

[Waddy]

I’ve got a Frankenstein HW35 Export, the cylinder is unusual in that the blueing is different on the breech section and the end block, plus the barrel is a different tone. When I tried to sell it the buyer refused it on the basis of it needing rebluing because of this fault so I’m going to end up having to break it for parts or accept a shitty amount of money for it.

How shitty an amount are you considering ?





I've had a straight edge to my laptop screen & it does look like barrel droop

[Hsing-ee]

How shitty an amount are you considering ?





I've had a straight edge to my laptop screen & it does look like barrel droop

It hasn’t got barrel droop it’s just the shitty fish eye on the iPhone ..

It would be One Million Pounds. Thing is I built it with an expensive and hard to source 22” .177 barrel and I can’t get it in the boot of the car easily. I got it to be my open sight springer (not aperture sight springer that’s my 77). But I’m not getting on with it I think it’s a bit of a Charlie Hunt.

I’ve got some other stuff to get on with before I solve the 35 problem. And not in a Pete Look No Hands way ..,

[T 20]

Thing is I built it with an expensive and hard to source 22” .177 barrel and I can’t get it in the boot of the car easily.,

Poke the barrel out of the passenger window --- job done.

And if the Bill pull you over, say you're just test driving the all new Honda Firefly.

I just found a .177" E barrel this morning while I was tidying up my barrel drawer --- and I found another oldschool HW85.

[Waddy]

It hasn’t got barrel droop it’s just the shitty fish eye on the iPhone ..

It would be One Million Pounds. Thing is I built it with an expensive and hard to source 22” .177 barrel and I can’t get it in the boot of the car easily. I got it to be my open sight springer (not aperture sight springer that’s my 77). But I’m not getting on with it I think it’s a bit of a Charlie Hunt.

I’ve got some other stuff to get on with before I solve the 35 problem. And not in a Pete Look No Hands way ..,

Probably would be best sold off as parts then if you wanted shut of it, just a bit of a PITA doing all the P&P.


I'm beginning to think Pete Look No Hands has a valid point when it comes to 35s


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[Hsing-ee]

Probably would be best sold off as parts then if you wanted shut of it, just a bit of a PITA doing all the P&P.


I'm beginning to think Pete Look No Hands has a valid point when it comes to 35s


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I think it was rose tinted glasses, I had a really nice although worn 35E when I was 18, although it was cheap it was the best of the guns I had as a teenager. It was the leather washer one and very much run in with tens of thousands of pellets through it.

This one seems hard to cock, not very accurate and nasty to shoot. Its younger sister the HW50 long-stroke gives the same power and easy cocking and fine accuracy while weighing 2 lbs less. I’m not happy with the bastard.

[Waddy]

I think it was rose tinted glasses, I had a really nice although worn 35E when I was 18, although it was cheap it was the best of the guns I had as a teenager. It was the leather washer one and very much run in with tens of thousands of pellets through it.

This one seems hard to cock, not very accurate and nasty to shoot. Its younger sister the HW50 long-stroke gives the same power and easy cocking and fine accuracy while weighing 2 lbs less. I’m not happy with the bastard.

Mines .22 and is fairly harsh for a .22. It's also harder to cock than most if not all my other springers, maybe it's the linkage geometry But then again it's got the fattest spring in it I've ever seen.

It's very nice rifle to look at but a battered .22 BSA Super sport that I recently paid 100 quid for is a far far nicer rifle to use. I wasn't expecting that !


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[T 20]

Treat every 35 as though it has a porous breech and fix accordingly.

The most extreme example of a porous breech is the 35E I bought off Willenium it had blown the square barrel arbor out of the front of the cylinder.

[Hsing-ee]

Treat every 35 as though it has a porous breech and fix accordingly.

The most extreme example of a porous breech is the 35E I bought off Willenium it had blown the square barrel arbor out of the front of the cylinder.

Hmm. I got a fairly late-model cylinder but I guess you’re right.

If it’s a Firefly I’ll have to remove half the bluing on the barrel to conceal the fact. Somehow you’ve made it even more piebald!

[TonyL]

Poke the barrel out of the passenger window --- job done.

And if the Bill pull you over, say you're just test driving the all new Honda Firefly.

I just found a .177" E barrel this morning while I was tidying up my barrel drawer --- and I found another oldschool HW85.

Lol re poking the barrel out of the window!

Excellent finds with the barrel and the '85, Mick.