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Airguns by Make and Model => Daisy Airguns => Topic started by: insanehognutt on January 26, 2015, 05:12:25 PM

Title: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: insanehognutt on January 26, 2015, 05:12:25 PM
I ran across one at a local flea market. $30, didn't seem like a very nice looking gun to me although it did use a forearm pumping lever. It was black with a painted silver colored barrel. Looked like a 80's model to me but I don't remember them.
I left it there. It did seem to hold air. Anyone remember those?
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: tweedking on January 26, 2015, 08:14:40 PM
quicksilver was daisy's trademarked brand of bb's, but i don't remember any quicksilver guns.... you say it has a forearm pump? like a pumper, to pump air? or like the 25 or 107 to cock a spring?

anything like the marksman pump-action bb gun? (which seems crappy)
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: DavidS on January 26, 2015, 08:21:35 PM
The quicksilver is one of the variants of the early 840 Single pump youth guns.    Some kind of marketing thing.

It is a smoothbore AirRifle that will produce around 300FPS with pellets, or around 340FPS with BB's (or at least that s what the marketing says).
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: stonykill on January 26, 2015, 08:24:09 PM
 Quicksilver was on the older 840/841 ssp's.

  (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u215/stonykill/MVC-024F_zps2fumyqsx.jpg)

 not mine image off of the net
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: stonykill on January 26, 2015, 08:24:51 PM
lol, tandem responses  :D
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: DavidS on January 26, 2015, 08:30:04 PM
lol, tandem responses  :D
It works out.   I guess the two of us are the go to people for much of the Daisy pumper stuff, seems kind of strange.
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: tweedking on January 26, 2015, 09:03:49 PM
not me. i'm a hack that reads too much online....
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: insanehognutt on January 26, 2015, 09:14:19 PM
Didn't realize that is was a single pumper...guess I shouldn't have put two in it  ;D
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: DavidS on January 26, 2015, 09:53:32 PM
not me. i'm a hack that reads too much online....
You are who i go to for Daisy information.
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: DavidS on January 26, 2015, 09:54:51 PM
Didn't realize that is was a single pumper...guess I shouldn't have put two in it  ;D
Two is equal to one.     Isn't single pumper math great?    1 = 1; 2 = 1; 3 = 1; 4 = 1; ......

;D
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: stonykill on January 26, 2015, 09:58:22 PM
Didn't realize that is was a single pumper...guess I shouldn't have put two in it  ;D

 2nd one dumps the 1st  ;) . So yup, 2 equals 1  ;D
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: insanehognutt on January 26, 2015, 10:51:48 PM
I learn something new every day. So where did the air go? I didn't hear anything on the second pump but it felt like it was pumping (decent amount of resistance) so I just figured it was holding air.
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: DavidS on January 26, 2015, 10:56:06 PM
I learn something new every day. So where did the air go? I didn't hear anything on the second pump but it felt like it was pumping (decent amount of resistance) so I just figured it was holding air.
As you open the pump arm the air decompresses inside the pump tube.    There is nothing to keep it in the valve from the inlet side except for  the piston face.
Title: Re: Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns
Post by: tweedking on January 28, 2015, 06:02:08 AM
after the success of the daisy x53's and 840/860's there was a bunch of ssp's. semi hard to pump and low velocity. it kept kids in check, back when kids could run a-muck with a airgun without any attention. crosman and daisy made a hand full (notoriously the AIR-177) or more. daisy was going thru a management/corporate-structure change in that time frame. stock-holders had control of both daisy and crosman and the pressure was on to build high VOLUME units not high QUALITY, thus the move toward foreign production.

http://www.daisymuseum.com/html/timeline/1990.htm (http://www.daisymuseum.com/html/timeline/1990.htm)