Diana Sidelever Maintenance Video

[straightshooter]

Featuring a Diana 56

[Frank in Fairfield]

Excellent video with a company spring compressor, I assume.

[dtdtdtdt]

Very instructive video.  I have a 54 and assume the method would be the same.  Really nice spring compressor.  I haven't delved into taking them apart this gives me confidence I could do it readily if needed. 


BY THE WAY, THE VERY LAST SCENE OF THE VIDEO AFTER INSTALLING STOCK, HE COCKED IT AND APPEARED TO DRY FIRE IT!!!!!

I assume they didn't show him put the pellet in it but if not ?

What do you think?  Did I miss something?

[Frank in Fairfield]

I have read (I don't remember where) when you replace the piston seal you dry fire it to completely seal the seal to the chamber...Maybe not..

[straightshooter]

It did not appear that any lube/moly/grease was used?

8 minute rebuild, impressive.

[wahoowad]

No lube. No inspection. No burr cleanup. Looked like factory warranty maintenance, not tune work. Helps explain why a tune helps so much.

[Wayne52]

Great Video Eric !!!

[dtdtdtdt]

Regarding critiques of the video. 

My comment about the video is restricted to the apparent dry fire.   I made the assumption that this was a demonstration of how maintenance steps should be done not an actual rebuild or build out of a rifle.  To that end, keeping things clean and neat would be more a priority than adding the grease and other goodies to the video. Having never torn down an air rifle, I was happy to see the sequence of events. 

I was just really surprised to see the apparent dry fire in ANY case as it could have been damaging to even a demonstration rifle. 

I'll let the real experts say whether it was useful and, if I ever have to do such a job myself, I will certainly view it along with  other rebuild videos to get tips!!

Cheers

[Geoff]

thank you for the link.  I have torn mine down twice already, however nice to have this to see where I may have done it the hard way.