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  1. Ssgmac

    First time air gun owner what is the best compressor

    I use an old oxygen regulator. Unscrew the part that screws to the oxygen bottle and screw in a hpa hose. The other end screws into your adapter to SCBA or SCUBA tank. You might have to use some heat to unscrew the oxygen bottle adapter. Don't use the regulator for oxygen again until it's been...
  2. Ssgmac

    Becoming an Air Gun Smith

    There are some excellent videos on YouTube. FX posted many videos that show complete breakdowns and rebuilds of many of their models
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    What are your favorite targets?

    I like shooting at things that break, like those little green army men, old expired medicine or vitamin tablets, pennies, ketchup packs, acorns, thumb tacks, clothes pins, PVC pipe stubs, 🤔 ..bullet and shotgun primers 🤫, bottle caps, ...🤔 Lately, my go to fodder has been those little...
  4. Ssgmac

    What are your favorite targets?

    I like shooting at things that break, like those little green army men, old expired medicine or vitamin tablets, pennies, ketchup packs, acorns, thumb tacks, clothes pins, PVC pipe stubs, 🤔 ..bullet and shotgun primers 🤫, bottle caps, ...🤔 Lately, my go to fodder has been those little...
  5. Ssgmac

    Semi-Auto PCP Rifle List (Non-Bullpup)

    Also FX Monsoon
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    What was the first semi automatic pellet gun?

    I'm pretty sure the FX Monsoon came out before the Revolution. There have been Co2 semi-autos out for a long time, but I think FX is the first PCP. When I got my Revolution, I searched and searched for other PCP semi-autos. At that time, there were only two companies making them. FX and I...
  7. Ssgmac

    California Airgunners

    Maybe it was used in a robbery on 9/12 🤭😆
  8. Ssgmac

    Silicon lube alternatives

    Does that include as a pellet lube? I use it on the triggers, slides and in the magazines of my firearms but haven't thought about it in my PCPs.
  9. Ssgmac

    Silicon lube alternatives

    Good point. I guess I'm just talking about punching the barrel and lubing the pellets. I remember buying 2 different kinds of lubes for my RWS 460 MAGNUM way back when I got it. One synthetic, the other silicone. They each specified what they were to be used for. When I got my first PCP...
  10. Ssgmac

    Silicon lube alternatives

    What's all you use? Treadmill lube? And what are you shooting springers, PCP, pump or CO2, DRR? Thanks for your reply
  11. Ssgmac

    Silicon lube alternatives

    I just don't want to use petroleum based oil like CLP. I had a couple different tubes of silicone or synthetic based oil that I've had for years but they walked and I want to break in my new Sidewinder this weekend. The gun shop I bought the last stuff at has moved once and then closed and is...
  12. Ssgmac

    Silicon lube alternatives

    Thanks Mike. I knew I could count on AGN for some direction. I couldn't remember what I got the last time. It was definitely for airguns and I got it from the gun store I bought the rifle from. I was hoping I'd recognize something as I was scrolling. Maybe it was RWS?
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    Silicon lube alternatives

    Has anyone ever considered using 100% silicon treadmill lube in their PCP air rifles? I'm not cheap. I'm frugal. I was looking for some lube on Amazon, as yet another bottle of it seems to have wandered off. It says 100% silicon but where it differs from the air gun stuff is in its quantity...
  14. Ssgmac

    California Airgunners

    Jay from the sf bay
  15. Ssgmac

    FX Semi auto.......anybody out there?

    I got my FX REVO a while ago. Maybe the year they came out, 2012/13. My only complaints are the lack of big boy furniture rails, no front sight post and only 1 magazine. ... and the price of the second magazine. I own lots of guns, air and powder. All quality (except 4 bb guns). The FX...
  16. Ssgmac

    Chineseum little blue high pressure compressor rebuild

    I rolled the dice on one of those $300 high pressure Chinese compressor and wouldn't you know it, I crapped out. It was already burned out when it arrived. They apparently sent me one that had already been returned. When it showed up at my house , the box was all wet with the burnt smelling...
  17. Ssgmac

    Someone Put Non-Alcoholic Beer in my Fridge!

    Now that's how you open a Butwiper... ..You know they say drinking Butwiper beer is like having sex in a canoe. ..yea, they're both this close >< to f#$%!@& water... cheers! 
  18. Ssgmac

    SCBA CGA 347 VALVE ADAPTER

    Thanks, I drew that same conclusion and decided to make a round brass washer out of a 3/32"Ø brazing rod. That 3/32" of space is just enough to set the nut far enough behind the nipple that now it seats the face of the nipple into the valve seat on the tank. But im still very curuous about what...
  19. Ssgmac

    SCBA CGA 347 VALVE ADAPTER

    Cool. Thanks for that info on pressure ratings between the 2. I was curious but the places I checked didn't list that info. When I compare the 2 nuts, they're almost identical.. Almost. The 346, however is about .25" less deep than the 347. I was able to fix the problem on the 347 tho so I won't...
  20. Ssgmac

    SCBA CGA 347 VALVE ADAPTER

    Yes. That's what I gathered as well. .mine's a wrench tight version. I cant see anywhere to put an o-ring. I made a brass round washer to make up the difference and it seems to be working. That is. The adapter makes up all the way up into the seat of the valve now. But I haven't tried it.yet..