Quote from: Mongopusher on June 24, 2016, 01:45:14 PMQuote from: wjjones on June 24, 2016, 01:13:26 PMSend a PM to "19sheridan57" on this forum. He recently posted that he usually has Blue Streaks that he'd sell. BTW, I don't think the "Steroid" treatment is necessary, even though I had it done to one of mine.Thanks, Bill!...can you expand on your thoughts on why "steroiding" is not necessary?I agree. If you have a good working vintage sheridan or benjamin 34x or older 39x, I don't think there is a real need for the steroid treatment. Certainly not if you mainly plink and just shoot for fun. Even for squirrel/rabbit and smaller hunting, a standard power benji/dan is plenty. I have one steroided sheridan and 3 other benjamins and sheridans, and they all kill squirrels equally well. However, if you get a great deal on a nice sheridan or benjamin that doesn't hold air, and you are going to hunt with it and are going to pay to have it fixed anyways, then the steroid is a great option. or if you get a newer '95-'05 benjamin/sheridan, I would have it steroided primarily to get the better quality components lacking in the newer stuff. Anyways, the above is my personal policy on the matter. And again, having said that I do have a steroided sheridan that is awesome and would be thrilled with another. and additionally, I'm with you. I don't enjoy 'tinkering' with my guns either. I'd be constantly worried that I would do some irreparable damage and then be out a gun, and I'm not rich enough to do that yet. I want a gun that's ready to roll.
Quote from: wjjones on June 24, 2016, 01:13:26 PMSend a PM to "19sheridan57" on this forum. He recently posted that he usually has Blue Streaks that he'd sell. BTW, I don't think the "Steroid" treatment is necessary, even though I had it done to one of mine.Thanks, Bill!...can you expand on your thoughts on why "steroiding" is not necessary?
Send a PM to "19sheridan57" on this forum. He recently posted that he usually has Blue Streaks that he'd sell. BTW, I don't think the "Steroid" treatment is necessary, even though I had it done to one of mine.
I'm not trashing the Steroid tune, I'm just saying I wouldn't do it again and it's not NECESSARY, especially with the long delays people have been seeing with Mac1 lately. There are other good tuners who can rebuild your pumper, BTW.
Heck, I'll even double down 'cuz it's the facts:Said Bluestreak belonged to a close friend's father who I miss dearly... Bequeathed it to me. I promised I'd have it gone through by the best in the biz and he could come over and shoot it this spring... Now I look like an idiot for sending it to the bermuda triangle. Even worse, in the interim, I referred a neighbor with an ailing 392. Tim sent it back with the wrong peep after 4.5 months... Unshootable. Neighbor called Vendor and vendor was demeaning and dismissive. He told him to JB weld some &^^& on top of the front sight to compensate instead of making it right by sending him the correct peep... Again, I look like an idiot. I wound up giving him an intermount and unused red dot to get him shooting.Don't be an idiot. Find another option. Email link inop and PM unanswered.Love you, Timmy. Going on 7 months. I want my Streak back!
Scott Decker (longhunter) and myself have offered our services many of times. I've said I should be able to have it shipped out within a week. I think, Scott has said 2-3 weeks depending on his current schedule. Tim is busy and for good reason. There are other alternatives and I'm sure you've looked around. It does stink that he has had your rifle for so long, but you did have options. I prefer to rebuild with his parts, but it's whatever parts you want and I'll put in. So the 392, what exactly is wrong with it? Why didn't the neighbor just order the correct peep? It should have been tapped already for the Williams. Did he clean out the over spray from inside the muzzle?
I just finished resealing grover's 147, yesterday. it came in the mail on Friday. good timing, to be sure, but most of the time, I can turn a job around in about a week. it all hinges on whether or not the gun arrives close to the time I get home, or, just after I leave.
Careful Scott. Soon you'll have 100 a week to do between road trips and your turn around time will be six months plus.I've done a few for others. I did an old Dan for a member a while back. He got it from an estate sale along with a couple other guns which appeared to be hacked up pretty badly. The old Dan looked like it may have escaped the devastation. It pumped air right out the barrel. I got inside of it and found the retainer nut had been cross threaded previously. When I took it out it ripped the threads out with it. When I offered to do this job for the member, I accepted responsibility for for it to be done right. I wasn't about to tell him that not olny could I not repair his gun but now it was worse than when he sent it to me. So one of my guns became a donor. I just happened to have one that I didn't have a lot of money in and the guts were in great shape. He is now the happy owner of a good old vintage Dan and I'm really happy I was able to make that happen for him. You don't know what you'll find in these old guns. I have a few older rifles and pistols around here that need one or two parts to bring them back, including that donor Dan. Bottom line.... Every repair is not a slam dunk. You have to be prepared and willing to do what you say you will do.
Sorry to hyjack this thread...........But, any of you guys set up to recrown vintage pumpers?