What airgun related did you do today?

[Ronfiveo]

Very cool you can't plan that, Best shot of the day for sure.
Barr

Thanks, Barry.


Ron

[WobblyHand]

Finished clocking a moderator for my PP700SA.  One of @subscriber 's models.  Very nice in that it preserves the use of iron sights if needed.  I needed a washer that was 0.0245" thick.  It was just over 1/2T off.  When first screwed in, the bottom of the moderator was up and totally obscuring the sight line.  I could have used an o-ring, but wanted a solid washer instead.  Grinding the washer by hand to the right thickness took way too long!

[Blowpipe Sam]

I had to go to town today to buy of all things ink!  I got out my old Rapidograph pens and discovered that the twenty something year old ink had dried up.  So while I was at the art supply store I picked up three bottles of Testor's model airplane paint.  I needed to restock a few colors.  This stuff is essentially auto body lacquer.  It is the best paint for camouflaging plastic gun stocks.  Tomorrow I hope to get an airbrush running and start painting some stocks.

[Zsigmund]

Finished clocking a moderator for my PP700SA.  One of @subscriber 's models.  Very nice in that it preserves the use of iron sights if needed.  I needed a washer that was 0.0245" thick.  It was just over 1/2T off.  When first screwed in, the bottom of the moderator was up and totally obscuring the sight line.  I could have used an o-ring, but wanted a solid washer instead.  Grinding the washer by hand to the right thickness took way too long!

 That looks good! I have a Buck Rail moderator on mine which works good but blocks the irons. I was looking for higher sights for a while but gave up.

[bReTt]

I tried out the CARM magazines that showed up for the Huntsman today. 

[2A Georgia]

Finished clocking a moderator for my PP700SA.  One of @subscriber 's models.  Very nice in that it preserves the use of iron sights if needed.  I needed a washer that was 0.0245" thick.  It was just over 1/2T off.  When first screwed in, the bottom of the moderator was up and totally obscuring the sight line.  I could have used an o-ring, but wanted a solid washer instead.  Grinding the washer by hand to the right thickness took way too long!

Took a huge amount of restraint to order our family replacement electric mower and pass on the 7% off sale Airgun Archery Fun had.  I'll keep telling myself my pp800r project fills that mission at 17.5fpe and a repeater.  Your pp700sa is a beautiful AG and as I understand a tack driver.  I see you rock yours without the folding stock true pistola style...salute!

[Tater]

Finished clocking a moderator for my PP700SA.  One of @subscriber 's models.  Very nice in that it preserves the use of iron sights if needed.  I needed a washer that was 0.0245" thick.  It was just over 1/2T off.  When first screwed in, the bottom of the moderator was up and totally obscuring the sight line.  I could have used an o-ring, but wanted a solid washer instead.  Grinding the washer by hand to the right thickness took way too long!

Nice job on that Bruce, looks good. I bet if you painted that washer black (or just the edges) it wouldn't even be noticed.

[WobblyHand]

Finished clocking a moderator for my PP700SA.  One of @subscriber 's models.  Very nice in that it preserves the use of iron sights if needed.  I needed a washer that was 0.0245" thick.  It was just over 1/2T off.  When first screwed in, the bottom of the moderator was up and totally obscuring the sight line.  I could have used an o-ring, but wanted a solid washer instead.  Grinding the washer by hand to the right thickness took way too long!

Took a huge amount of restraint to order our family replacement electric mower and pass on the 7% off sale Airgun Archery Fun had.  I'll keep telling myself my pp800r project fills that mission at 17.5fpe and a repeater.  Your pp700sa is a beautiful AG and as I understand a tack driver.  I see you rock yours without the folding stock true pistola style...salute!

So far.  But I did order the folding stock from Wes.  One of these days it will arrive.  It shipped via Canada Post, so maybe next week?

[WobblyHand]

Finished clocking a moderator for my PP700SA.  One of @subscriber 's models.  Very nice in that it preserves the use of iron sights if needed.  I needed a washer that was 0.0245" thick.  It was just over 1/2T off.  When first screwed in, the bottom of the moderator was up and totally obscuring the sight line.  I could have used an o-ring, but wanted a solid washer instead.  Grinding the washer by hand to the right thickness took way too long!

Nice job on that Bruce, looks good. I bet if you painted that washer black (or just the edges) it wouldn't even be noticed.

Thanks!  What you see is the combination barrel nut/moderator adapter I machined.  I really ought to blue it.  The aluminum washer is only 24 thousandths thick, I could attempt to blacken it, but I can't think of anything that would be durable.  Can't use paint or powder coat, since I don't want to build up the thickness.  Even 1/2 a thou is too much.  Clocking is extremely sensitive to thickness.

[Ronfiveo]

Thanks!  What you see is the combination barrel nut/moderator adapter I machined.  I really ought to blue it.  The aluminum washer is only 24 thousandths thick, I could attempt to blacken it, but I can't think of anything that would be durable.  Can't use paint or powder coat, since I don't want to build up the thickness.  Even 1/2 a thou is too much.  Clocking is extremely sensitive to thickness.

I think it looks cool with some silver tone showing.
Kinda like chrome on a car.

Ron

[WobblyHand]

Thanks!  What you see is the combination barrel nut/moderator adapter I machined.  I really ought to blue it.  The aluminum washer is only 24 thousandths thick, I could attempt to blacken it, but I can't think of anything that would be durable.  Can't use paint or powder coat, since I don't want to build up the thickness.  Even 1/2 a thou is too much.  Clocking is extremely sensitive to thickness.

I think it looks cool with some silver tone showing.
Kinda like chrome on a car.

Ron

Thanks.  You are seeing the flange of this piece.  Made the adapter a year ago.  On the fence whether to blue it or not.  In a way, I like the silver showing.

[Thor760]

On my lunch break, I decided to begin taking the trigger apart in my Crosman 1377 to prep for a polishing job on the trigger and sear.  I read multiple posts on here to be aware of the safety detent spring and ball.  I was too excited and disregarded that wisdom and one slight pull on the trigger to raise it off its post and separate from the safety led to one object striking me in the forehead(most likely spring) and another object landing off somewhere into oblivion in the garage (ball bearing).  After about 30 minutes searching on my knees with a flashlight and magnet I was able to recover both.  Lesson learned.  Next time I am going to take the trigger out in a plastic bag and keep a magnet close by.  Probably a good idea to by a 100ct set of 3/32 ball bearings for 5.95 to have on hand.  Man I got lucky.

[bantam5s]

Today I made 1 good gun out of my 2 slavia 618's.
I was hesitant at first, but it had to be done.

The 1st 618 I bought a couple years ago had a good accurate barrel but turned out to have a worn out spring.
The 2nd that I bought a couple months ago has a good strong mainspring, but a bad barrel that couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

Normally a simple 5 minute barrel or mainspring swap would be all that's necessary,  but this was a different situation.
#2 is the more desirable earlier gun with scope grooves and dovetail front sight, #1 the later smooth tube with missing screw pin front sight.

What I needed to do was do a barrel and front sight swap, and this meant filling a dovetail into the barrel which I had never done before.
The 1st attempt was a failure and I had to lose 5/8, but the 2nd attempt was a success.


I don't remember what pellets this barrel like before,  but I found an open tin of 8.6 FTT's that I don't think were favored by whatever I bought them to test in.

Here's the before and after, semi rested at 10yds.

Original barrel

Swapped barrel.


Now I have one with decent accuracy and power, and one with a bad barrel no front sight and a worn out mainspring.

[WobblyHand]

Tried out my new toy, a GK1 in 22 cal.  Found out my moderator clocking washer that I made for my PP700SA was not right for the GK1.  So I made another clocking washer.  This time making the washer only took 20 minutes.  Figured I'd be needing another moderator so I'm printing one now.  Might be done by bedtime.

Squeezed off 19 rounds of Norma 17.6 grain pellets and thought that was fun.  Then loaded up 19 NOE BBT HP slugs in 28.4 grains.  Oh yeah, I could get used to this.  I'm going to have to cast up some more of these slugs - I can see going through them quickly!  I'll have to do some chrony work tomorrow to see what I'm shooting at.  Think Kelly at KrazCool said it was set up for 700 fps using 18 gr pellets.  I have 12 tins of the 17.6's so that should tide me over until I cast some more slugs.

Thinking about an optic for this.  I have a Holosun 507C for the PP700SA, hmm, might steal it for the GK1.  Think it's worthy of the Holosun.

[2A Georgia]

On my lunch break, I decided to begin taking the trigger apart in my Crosman 1377 to prep for a polishing job on the trigger and sear.  I read multiple posts on here to be aware of the safety detent spring and ball.  I was too excited and disregarded that wisdom and one slight pull on the trigger to raise it off its post and separate from the safety led to one object striking me in the forehead(most likely spring) and another object landing off somewhere into oblivion in the garage (ball bearing).  After about 30 minutes searching on my knees with a flashlight and magnet I was able to recover both.  Lesson learned.  Next time I am going to take the trigger out in a plastic bag and keep a magnet close by.  Probably a good idea to by a 100ct set of 3/32 ball bearings for 5.95 to have on hand.  Man I got lucky.

My first trigger job on project 1377 had an AR detent pin substituted for the lost ball bearing which turned up a couple weeks later....lol
Good thing I had an "oops" kit for the AR15 on the bench

[bantam5s]

On my lunch break, I decided to begin taking the trigger apart in my Crosman 1377 to prep for a polishing job on the trigger and sear.  I read multiple posts on here to be aware of the safety detent spring and ball.  I was too excited and disregarded that wisdom and one slight pull on the trigger to raise it off its post and separate from the safety led to one object striking me in the forehead(most likely spring) and another object landing off somewhere into oblivion in the garage (ball bearing).  After about 30 minutes searching on my knees with a flashlight and magnet I was able to recover both.  Lesson learned.  Next time I am going to take the trigger out in a plastic bag and keep a magnet close by.  Probably a good idea to by a 100ct set of 3/32 ball bearings for 5.95 to have on hand.  Man I got lucky.

My first trigger job on project 1377 had an AR detent pin substituted for the lost ball bearing which turned up a couple weeks later....lol
Good thing I had an "oops" kit for the AR15 on the bench

I have taken apart those little party favor maze games for the ball bearing inside, and have also taken apart bearing for this purpose as well.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I unboxed my new Crosman 3622 and began construction of a shrine to the dark side.

[Back_Roads]

My Crosman C3622 came today, I gave it the once over, decided to do a BR scope mount and a 4x32 Beeman scope with a very nice duplex ret. 5 shots to sight in , giving it the leak test will see if it kills stuff tomorrow

[kbstingwing]

did an upgrade modification to the Notos, swapped out the drop block from the Amazon Supewell block to the Huben regulated block, still doing some dialing in, just too hot to go outside right now....

[Blowpipe Sam]

Since I got stuck in the penalty box today and I received my new Crosman 3622 last night I decided it was bring your airgun to work day!  It's a fairly slow day in the box so between helping visitors I can read the owner's manual and familiarize myself with this beastie.