Well, that isn't the problem. I have a hand pump and was using it to pump up the Freedoms, but one .177 will not hold air for 24 hours (poppet problem I suspect) and the other .177 I need to take apart the pump and try to clean it and maybe replace the inner o-ring with 2 smaller ones. That is the fix recommended by many for this AG.
The .22 Freedom... well, I bought it new, sent it back and bought it back as a "parts" gun for 1/3 of the new price. However, I have never been able to fix it and nearly broke the small part in the center of the pump, so it has simply sat in a corner for quite a while. That one holds air, or at least it did the last time I pumped it up, but the fps has always been really erratic. I suspect it has something to do with the pre-charged portion of the gun, but I really don't know or I would have already fixed it. (grin)
There was a guy on the gateway, Din? I think his name was, that offered new poppets and other modifications for the Freedom/Liberty, but since I was banned I have not been able to contact him.
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Thank you Odoyle! However, as I said, I was banned from gatewaytoairguns, so I can't even look at those links without using Tor browser and in any case, my guess is that I was involved in those threads myself! (grin)
I will have to take a look at the other threads you mentioned, but I am pretty sure that I have already read them as I have researched the Freedom AG's pretty extensively over the last 2+ years.
Please forgive me for editing my posts extensively. I never say exactly what I want to say when I first write a post. Sometimes not even after multiple P.S.'s. (chuckle)
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