This is my winter project #2 which is taking shape.
I got this Early (1925-1929)
Straight Logo Crosman 101 couple of weeks ago off of the GB auction site, the great part is the seller only lived 3 or 4 miles from my house so there were no long delays for shipping, I had it in hand by 11 am the next day.
Overall it was in nice condition appearance wise ( metal has been painted at some point) and it would not hold air not even after an alcohol flush, so I tore it down and discovered a mix and match group of internal parts from early and late versions of the 101 and an updated pump cup, so someone tried to seal this one and make it work but had no success. Tonight I dug into my small stash of parts and came up with the needed period correct parts for the early version, changed all seals to new fresh ones and even installed a new pump cup, now it fires like new and with lots of authority at 6 pumps.
Now that I know it works mechanically I will tear it down again and touch up the wood, clean up the paint on action and compression tube as well. Tonight I cleaned off the paint that covered the blued and rifled barrel that this one and it’s sister have in common.According to records the steel rifle barrels were supplied by Remington for a short time in the 1920’s.
Currently it sports a Tasco scope I had laying around which is mounted on an inter mount Mac1 sells for the Crosman 101, 113, 114 and a couple others. I also installed a period correct cocking knob as it came with the later 5 ring version, and installed the correct tombstone peep sight as well due to someone making aV-notch out of the other one.
Looking forward to velocity and accuracy tests this weekend.
I got this Early (1925-1929)
Overall it was in nice condition appearance wise ( metal has been painted at some point) and it would not hold air not even after an alcohol flush, so I tore it down and discovered a mix and match group of internal parts from early and late versions of the 101 and an updated pump cup, so someone tried to seal this one and make it work but had no success. Tonight I dug into my small stash of parts and came up with the needed period correct parts for the early version, changed all seals to new fresh ones and even installed a new pump cup, now it fires like new and with lots of authority at 6 pumps.
Now that I know it works mechanically I will tear it down again and touch up the wood, clean up the paint on action and compression tube as well. Tonight I cleaned off the paint that covered the blued and rifled barrel that this one and it’s sister have in common.According to records the steel rifle barrels were supplied by Remington for a short time in the 1920’s.
Currently it sports a Tasco scope I had laying around which is mounted on an inter mount Mac1 sells for the Crosman 101, 113, 114 and a couple others. I also installed a period correct cocking knob as it came with the later 5 ring version, and installed the correct tombstone peep sight as well due to someone making aV-notch out of the other one.
Looking forward to velocity and accuracy tests this weekend.
