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Airguns by Make and Model => Benjamin Airguns => Topic started by: lm22 on May 12, 2025, 11:00:30 PM
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Been a long time coming, but I finished building my Bottle Rod. Custom designed the parts myself and outsourced the machining to a company, Parts Badger, online. Time will tell how things ultimately work out, but so far I'm happy with how it turned out. Not the prettiest work on the stock but I care more for function than looks anyway. Getting closer and closer to my ultimate goal for the rifle.
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Very cool !!!
Having built several bottled M-rods it is a very worthy modification 8)
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8) Something one does not see as often as one did in the past.
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Nice looking build!
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Thanks yall. Love how many things you can do to these guns. Once I figure some more things out I got a tensioned barrel in the makes. It will shorten overall length a bit. On top of that, the adapter I've designed for that will double as a moderator adapter. Excited to see how it turns out.
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The tensioned barrel happened quicker than I thought it would. Had all the parts I needed, just was trying to figure out how best to thread the barrel. I got my moderator in the mail yesterday and got super itchy to make it happen. Ended up rigging my drill press into a makeshift lathe. Used a 7/16-20 die to thread the barrel to match the adapter I designed. Then cut the shroud to length. Bit nerve racking but it all worked out in the end.
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More pics
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For the future ...
You could have NOT threaded barrel taking the chance of choke opening up or getting threads out of square etc by ..... making the air stripper a slip fit over barrel secured with red 271 loc-tite or 641 sleeve retaining compound.
As such there is no way in a tensioned set up stripper could get pulled off !!!
Nicely done none the less ;D
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Liam, nice to put the barrel in tensile / tension. It seems that this is much better than the slight compression that Crosman uses. Your adapter looks nice too.
I look forward to the accuracy testing.
Hunter
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For the future ...
You could have NOT threaded barrel taking the chance of choke opening up or getting threads out of square etc by ..... making the air stripper a slip fit over barrel secured with red 271 loc-tite or 641 sleeve retaining compound.
As such there is no way in a tensioned set up stripper could get pulled off !!!
Nicely done none the less ;D
Fair enough. I figured this would be the easiest way of putting tension on the barrel and still be able to easily disassemble everything if needed. I don't claim to do everything the best way though, that's for sure. Can't say I wasn't concerned about how it was going to affect the crown, choke and etc. Luckily everything seems straight and otherwise OK.
I have been debating on getting a Lothar Walther barrel done up and may go back to the drawing board if I do. We'll see how satisfied with it I am. With the porting, huma reg, and ssg I made it has the consistency, efficiency, and power I want. Now we'll see if I've improved accuracy, degraded accuracy or if it stays the same as it was.
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Liam, nice to put the barrel in tensile / tension. It seems that this is much better than the slight compression that Crosman uses. Your adapter looks nice too.
I look forward to the accuracy testing.
Hunter
Thanks, had fun teaching myself solidworks to design both it and the bottle adapter. Excited to see how it affects everything.
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Always a pleasure to hear about a marauder build. I'm looking forward to hearing some numbers and accuracy too. I've got a brod that's been in the works several different times. These guns are very versatile.
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Finally got down to Utah Airguns to do some indoor tests of my accuracy now with my current mods. Happy to say everything was a success. More consistent accuracy now from what I've seen. Definitely didn't hurt accuracy at least. All shots were at 33 yards.
First two groups, 5 shots each
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Second two groups, 10 shots each
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Final three groups, 5 shots each. Plus one shot bullseye
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One full sheet firing one shot each, almost as quickly as I could. Forgot to take a picture of the chronograph I was using, but the standard deviation was about 2-2.5 fps. The spread was about 8.
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Nice groups. I'm sure they will tighten up even more once you shoot the gun more. Those bullseye shots were dead on at the tail end!
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Yea gave the barrel a deep clean while I had it out so it's still leading in. Excited to see how it gets once all said and done.