Heh, but that was half the sales pitch to my wife: "It's exercise, see?!"I was trying to keep it budget. I'm sure I'll get fed up some day and go the compressor route. And I know that will be a good day when it comes. At the moment though, finances are tight. We have a small business, and it's tough to say the least right now. But, a few calories burned pumping the thing up should drop us a few squirrels on the table.So long as I don't ruin the internals with moisture! Still curious to see if anyone has anything to say about silicone oil in the fill port. I swear I saw a whole thread about it, but I forgot to bookmark it. And good point, Ken! I hadn't thought of that. In essence, if there is a moisture trap/filter, that would need to be on the intake side, not the output.
The 95 is likely over sprung, most are. Not hard to tear down, just need a spring compressor and the library hereand YouTube can help you build one cheap easy enough plus lots of info on both how to do all the tweaks to make it shoot better. I own 2 and both a good shooters. Just me but keep it and make it a project rifle to tinker and learnto tweak springers on.
It's the high pressure and temperature that squzes the mosture out of the air like a sponge being squished. ... I'll reach down and feel how warm the outside of the pump is getting not only to limit the amount of mosture going into the rifle but also help the pump last. Remember, what you're feeling is the temperature of the 1st stage. There's another 2 stages further in the pump I can assure you is much hotter. The 3rd stage which is the one doing the most compressing as in up to 4500 psi is very hot and the Oring sealing that stage is getting cooked. Slow and steady with a pause at the top and bottom of stroke will help your pump last and be more efficient.
Every once in a great while I'll add a few drops (1-3) of pure silicone oil in the fill port. The silicone oil I'm currently using was listed as treadmill belt lubricant, pure silicone oil... it was the cheapest available at the time of purchase. Honestly, it probably doesn't do too much, but I figure it's at least good for the o-rings. Any excess oil will get blown out in the first few shots, so I don't go too crazy with it. I've hand pumped for a while, until getting a GX-CS2 compressor. Up this way humidity isn't too bad compared to other areas, hand pumping unfiltered didn't cause any moisture issues. Time will tell with the compressor and small in-line filter(s).