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In line moisture filter

Sorry to bother you again. How often would I change the desiccant’s in them.
Hello,
What you should get is a vibration meter that will tell you how long the air pump has been running. If you have a water cooled system, place the meter in an area that won't activate while only the coolant is circulating. With the meter, you will know when you should be changing or servicing your compressor.

Taipan  Taipan Slash - Accuracy tip.

I was just experimenting with how I hold my semi.
When I shoot my Steyr ProX "the follow through" is critical for consistency, and also trigger being pulled straight back. If I don't concentrate on these a shot will go out father than one would think it should. Do everything right and nice groups happen. But yeah mine shoots better if I hold the gun firmer.

Be fun to try a Slash and compare both these.

I bought a Western Mordax Venom so I will compare it to my ProX and maybe a Slash someday in the future.
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Tuning  TAIPAN ... Veteran No more hammer PING & Some other tuning tricks

IMO the PEEK needs to be encapsulated as in it being in a pocket or cup type hole being flush to hammers normal end.
PEEK hard as it is still has flex and when set up at a striker tip, when there is no radial support holding the PEEK from flexing outward it can and will shatter over time with poppet stem pounding on it.

HONESTLY you really don't want to make hammer longer and decrease the stroke as the calibration of hammers length, springs length, end cap / adjuster are such that free flight is maintained. Make the hammer longer this balance can quickly go away with hammer finding itself in preload to poppet degrading the guns air efficiency.
Thank you, Scott
Your advice is always appreciated & well taken
I do understand the effect capping the hammer can have on things
If I were to obtain a spare Vet 1 hammer, do I stand a chance of accomplishing encapsulation with only a drill press & hand tools?
I'm sure you can tell that I have no machinist training
Edward

Building a Tactical Guantlet

Ok did not want to keep me up at night , so de gassed it , and found the bottle block to be very loose , and the gap between the bottle , and regulator was not helping. It's not perfect. Nothing is
Like "Wabi-Sabi" which means "Nothing is Perfect"
Wabi- refers to simplicity, humility, and quietness. Often associated with rustic beauty, or imperfection.
Sabi- Evokes the beauty that comes with age , wear , and the passage of time.
Together Wabi-Sabi is a profound
Japanese aesthetic that findes beauty in imperfection , impermanence, and incompleteness. Like weathered wood , cracked pottery , patina on a old revolver , or the silence of a foggy morning. Anyway now you know a word in Japanese.Lol.

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HW/Weihrauch  HW44 love

Have no idea regarding a light tune in a .177. My .22 is a laser like my IZH46M. At 17 foot pounds with cheap Crosman hollow points it wallops starlings.
@scopecreep... sorry this is a old post I’m using for classifieds reasons please let me know if you want to sell that dreamline compact

Brocock/BRK  Ghost regulator not holding set point

Well, I pulled the reg and everything looked good, except for two things (that I saw):

Piston and Belleville washers were dripping in lube, literally wet as if they were simply dumped in a jar of thin lube…

Second, it seems the stack is grabbing the housing:

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Not sure how this could cause the set point creeping down though…

So in the end nothing obvious and I simply ran it through standard polishing procedure… can’t tell you whether it worked though because the rifle is now leaking air out of the barrel as fast as I can fill it. Used a burst from a tank, cocked while filling etc but air simply rushing through… so the valve’s up next I guess…

Tank failure, anyone? How many?

Firefighter & then fire systems designer, installer, tech & licensed hydrotester. NEVER personally had one fail or seen it happen in 30 years. They're designed NOT to go boom so I don't worry about it more than I need to. Had to fail tanks for recertification due to age but not failure.
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AEA  My AEA Bigbore Challenger Bullpup Chassis

I have a .30 bullpup would this work or could you share stk so I could modify it to work or maybe help you modify this one and purchase one?
This would not work at all for the non-side lever guns. Those are vastly different and have changes that depend on the year the gun was made. I know, at the least, early non-sidelever bullpups have different tube sizes.
I will not share any of my STL's or cad files. I takes a lot of work to design these and that is what I am selling.

Beeman  HW30s in 22cal is awsome

Hey thats a nice stock!!! I wonder if that was made by Cocuran ? I like that it covers the hinged block area I too have a second Hw30s in the R7 flavor. Its a .177cal and its scoped. Ver y deadly accurate.Again a Vortek PG4 kit plus it had a full Custom tune by Paul Watts using the sunnen hone to true up the compression chamber. Its shooting 7.3gr jsb pellets at jst over 700fps. &.83gr express at 685fps. 8 ft lb . The 22cal using those no lead GTO Predator domes make 9ft/ lbs .
Thank you! It was a special order AOA marked rifle. They were offering a few models in walnut. I do have a Steve Corcoran stocked .177 cal. HW30. Beautiful rifle.
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Buying used rifles

I know that a lot of people have had good experiences with used airguns and relatively few bad ones. Still, I'm very nervous buying used and dealing with someone, somewhere, I don't know personally.

I do a lot of gunsmithing for friends and seen many used and abused airguns that have been "fixed" or "upgraded" by amateurs who shouldn't be allowed to have a screwdriver.

The casual "tuners" who are always looking for maximum power are the biggest concern - the damage they can do to an airgun is internal and not always apparent by buggered screws.

"Open box" deals are questionable, professionally refurbished items are probably fine.

Personally, I prefer to buy new, pay the asking price and get the manufacturer's warranty and a dealers after sales support. IMHO, unless I know the specific item and the owner, the money saved buying used is not worth the risk of getting damaged goods.

On the flip-side, if you are mechanically inclined, buying a "parts gun" or a damaged gun can be a fun project. By trading some old archery gear, I got a slightly used FX Crown that had been tuned to the point it wouldn't shoot worth a darn. A couple of hours work has yielded my favorite PCP that shoots sub-MOA at 50 yards 😁

If gambling and saving some money is exciting to you - go for it! 😃

...just my (paranoid) opinion. 🙄

Cheers and good luck!

If you started now?

Don't think I'd change anything. I had to WORK to get my initial guns (& myself) to perform acceptably and by the time better equipment came my way I found myself to be a competent shooter. I'm glad things happened as they did & don't want to screw with success.

Springer vs. PCP

I don't believe that theTX200 is made in a stainless steel model. Air Arms is famous for their perfect blueing, quite satisfactory on my TX200 after more than 5 years. If the stainless look is important to you, several fine Weihrauch springers are sold through Air Guns of Arizona have the stainless look.
Did I mention stainless?

RAW Rapid  RAW HM1000X .25 or .30 cal

I've become a big fan of shooting a gun within the parameters of it's design. I've spent way too much over the yrs experimenting with "upgrades." Which leads me to a caliber question. I have a .22 cal HM1000X and would like to toy with a larger caliber. This is for punching paper and accuracy out to 100yards, no hunting. Within the design of a stock HM1000x is it pushing the gun too far with a .30cal? Is the gun going to be happier running with .25cal ammo?

Thanks for the info
Jerry L.

Jerry

I bought my RAW HM1000x .22 from SPAW in 2018/19 timeframe. I used it exclusively for 100Y BR Target shooting. Martin built it to spec with the Poly barrel to shoot the JSB 25.39g redesign pellets at 935 FPS.

In 2019-2021 time frame, GTA had a monthly 100y informal NUAH ( nothing under a hundred yards) target challenge, which I absolutely loved. I think I participated every month for about two years. The RAW shot consistently very well at my outdoor local range, and I had quite a few NUAH cards that were very solid. I had the random fliers and wind reading challenges, but I was interested in trying a .30 cal barrel to see if I could improve.

Sent it back to Martin and he put on a new .30 cal barrel and pellet probe. I shot the JSB 44.g and although it did well, I ultimately decided to go back to the .22 cal setup. I still have an almost new .30 cal barrel and probe keeping the gun safe warm.

If the AEA 51g and 45g were available at the time, I would have been more patient and practiced more with the .30 caliber. My sense is that you should try the barrel swap and give it a go with these two pellet choices. Quench your thirst.

Until I saw this post, I nearly forgot about having the .30 barrel in the safe. Was going to sell, but maybe I’ll hold off for a bit. 😀

Tom

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