Daisy Quicksilver BB Guns

[insanehognutt]

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?

[tweedking]

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)

[DavidS]

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).

[stonykill]

 Quicksilver was on the older 840/841 ssp's.

 

 not mine image off of the net

[stonykill]

lol, tandem responses 

[DavidS]

lol, tandem responses 

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.

[tweedking]

not me. i'm a hack that reads too much online....

[insanehognutt]

Didn't realize that is was a single pumper...guess I shouldn't have put two in it 

[DavidS]

not me. i'm a hack that reads too much online....

You are who i go to for Daisy information.

[DavidS]

Didn't realize that is was a single pumper...guess I shouldn't have put two in it 

Two is equal to one.     Isn't single pumper math great?    1 = 1; 2 = 1; 3 = 1; 4 = 1; ......

[stonykill]

Didn't realize that is was a single pumper...guess I shouldn't have put two in it 

 2nd one dumps the 1st  . So yup, 2 equals 1 

[insanehognutt]

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.

[DavidS]

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.

[tweedking]

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