Will honing the air chamber really help. Power, ext.... if not what kind of tricks will help bring the most out of my rifle.
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Honing?
- Thread starter Evergreenair
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I guess it would depend if you had much interference with the piston inside the cylinder.
It would for sure help to keep the seal from getting tore up when reinstalling by removing
burrs and such from around cut outs. But I don't own any NP powered rifles so maybe there
could be some other benefit.
It would for sure help to keep the seal from getting tore up when reinstalling by removing
burrs and such from around cut outs. But I don't own any NP powered rifles so maybe there
could be some other benefit.
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My understanding is that honing your "air tube" really only helps break in your seal faster, and will probably hold a bit more of the silicone oil in the chamber. A ball hone may remove burrs and such, but won't really do much to correct a "mis-shapen" air chamber." Smoothing the edges of the "cut outs" is more efficiently handled with a fine stone/sanding cone and a Dremel. I recently honed the chambers on two of my Crosman NPs using a 400 grit flex hone. Each gun has several hundred shots through them, with no appreciable power increase over stock. If anything, my Extreme Spread on both guns has opened up a lot (higher number). I suspect the hone "may" have been too course, and ruined the new seal. We'll see when I take one apart.
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Over honing can open up the I.D. of the cylinder resulting in a less than optimum seal. Honing is indeed to give the lube a place to live, but do yourself a favor and use JM Moly or something similar and not silicone oil.
Scotty
Scotty
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