What airgun related did you do today?

[2A Georgia]

More photos of the sanding process on my 853.

Ron

Looking good sir!

[Ronfiveo]

More photos of the sanding process on my 853.

Ron

Looking good sir!

I'm going to sand off the poly and do the True Oil way.
I'm just not happy with the Wipe on Poly.

Read #9296.
It has more photos and my plans.

https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=148550.msg156525985#msg156525985

Ron

[2A Georgia]

Ron, don't forget the pictures.
Good luck with this project.

The second coat is done and it's still not making me happy.
It's probably the " warm satin" finish. I wanted a semi gloss but this is not cutting it.
Also I'm a little disappointed is the figure of this wood. There's not much there.

Photos:







I did get to capture the image of Sasquatch. (if you sort of squint your eyes )



I think I'm going to order some True Oil and just go traditional.
Live and learn.

Ron

I'm a "does it come in synthetic polymer black" kinda guy, but looks like a wood and steel beauty in the works!  Cheers.

[Ronfiveo]

I'm a "does it come in synthetic polymer black" kinda guy, but looks like a wood and steel beauty in the works!  Cheers.

Thanks, Charles.
It's all part of the learning curve.

Ron

[Ronfiveo]

A couple of days ago I had a horrible practice session. I was really shooting badly and couldn't buy an X or a 10, and 8s and 9s were plentiful.

I was testing pellets today to see if the new ones could be accurate and about grouping and the general things
that we need for a pellet to be considered good.

I hung up a target and I walked back to my shooting table and saw that it was crooked.
Well I fired off a few and dang, the shots weren't going where I wanted them to go even though I knew the
scope was zeroed in well. With cross hairs right on the center it would hit, mostly low and right. I made adjustments
 and I ended up chasing holes.

Long story short, finally, I hung up another target and made sure it hung straight.
Abracadabra.... it started shooting spot on again.

What was different? The "cant" of the scope. I was lining up with the target which made my scope angled to one side or another
and not level.

Now if the target is a little crooked, I line up my scope with the boards on the privacy fence and then the target.

The Xs and 10s are back. I never even thought of or considered the scope being at an angle to be a major thing if the
target was just a little bit crooked. It is.

99.9% of y'all already knew this but for me it's a major "game changer" find.

After I discovered this I saw a video on YT about this very same thing by a very attractive lady.
Yep, I was guilty of doing everything she pointed out and I was fixing it the right way.

Sorry that this is so long, but it's going to help me a lot in the future.

Ron

I found this video today which demonstrates what I found out and why my horrible practice session occurred and how to fix it.



Ron

[2A Georgia]

Disassembled my ancient Lee 10# pot and went after it with the drill and wire brush.  The coil reads 29.5 ohms so the math says that is 500 watts at 110 volts and 5ish amps so nothing wrong with the coil.  Everything is shinny now and all screws tight.  Have to fix the TC quick connect again before I can cast.  Half a mind to hard wire it to the PID terminals.....

[triggertreat]

Disassembled my ancient Lee 10# pot and went after it with the drill and wire brush.  The coil reads 29.5 ohms so the math says that is 500 watts at 110 volts and 5ish amps so nothing wrong with the coil.  Everything is shinny now and all screws tight.  Have to fix the TC quick connect again before I can cast.  Half a mind to hard wire it to the PID terminals.....

I like to leave my TC intact to limit possible runaway temps.  I set it above the PID settings to not interfere with it.

[Ronfiveo]

I just wet the stock and put a hair drier on it to raise the grain "whiskering" on the wood stock
of the 853 and sanded it down with some 400 grit paper to smooth it all down. I did this twice.

 
I did notice something a while ago and while sanding it reminded me to ask y'all why this might be there.
It goes through all the way to the other side.
I also wonder if it's on all 853s or just mine?





Ron

[Bicycleman]

Ron, if you are talking about the spot indicated by the arrow below, might it be where a branch was growing in the wood before it was harvested?

[Ronfiveo]

Ron, if you are talking about the spot indicated by the arrow below, might it be where a branch was growing in the wood before it was harvested?

That's the one. It's on both sides and the figure / grain  in the end of it matches the one on the other side.
It's like some one drove a dowel rod in.
 It's definitely a plug.

Ron

[Novagun]

Ok  don't try and hide it. Perhaps you could make a feature of it.

[Ronfiveo]

Ok  don't try and hide it. Perhaps you could make a feature of it.

Not trying to hide it.
One of the reasons for refinishing the stock was to see the beauty of the wood and not hide it under a stain.
To me all wood is beautiful.

I was just wondering if there was a reason for this like in the manufacturing of it or was it a mistake
And it's only on mine.
If I'm the only one, then that makes mine special and unique.

I could make a smiley face out of it.


Ron

[Rick67]

Ok  don't try and hide it. Perhaps you could make a feature of it.

Not trying to hide it.
One of the reasons for refinishing the stock was to see the beauty of the wood and not hide it under a stain.
To me all wood is beautiful.

I was just wondering if there was a reason for this like in the manufacturing of it or was it a mistake
And it's only on mine.
If I'm the only one, then that makes mine special and unique.

I could make a smiley face out of it.


Ron

Got  a cute one from outer space.

[Back_Roads]

I put a bottom rail on my M16a, then I put a bipod on the rail. Finished upping the reg pressure on it first, as
the pic rail covers the easy adjustment hole.


 I also mounted dot sights on a couple guns, My MOdfire for one. Had to get some angry Gnome practice in after    


 First shots were low, I decided to adjust up 

[2A Georgia]

Disassembled my ancient Lee 10# pot and went after it with the drill and wire brush.  The coil reads 29.5 ohms so the math says that is 500 watts at 110 volts and 5ish amps so nothing wrong with the coil.  Everything is shinny now and all screws tight.  Have to fix the TC quick connect again before I can cast.  Half a mind to hard wire it to the PID terminals.....

Back to 400C if needed.  Working on keeping the PID from overshooting now casting write up in that thread...

[Rick67]

Ron, the Discovery I bought in 2013 had an unattractive finish.  I sanded the finish off [completely] and applied several coats of Birchwood Tru-Oil.  That was in 2014, before the rifle went to my brother.  He has used it every season since then, and has not done anything to it since he got it.  The rifle still looks nice.


Whirly, I wore the black rubber gloves (from Harbor Freight) while applying the Tru-Oil.  That allowed my hands to stay clean.  And I don't have any pets in the house. 

This only bolsters my plan to refinish my 2260 stock 

[Matchstickshooter]

changed a leather piston seal over to an adapter with a synthetic seal.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I spent a couple of hours chronographing a variety of pellets in my Crosman 2200.  Results were disappointing.  Velocities have fallen back to the speeds I was getting before I modified the gun.  After adding an O-ring sealed bolt probe and sealing the breech to barrel interface with 3M 5200 sealant velocities were peaking around 640 fps with CPHP.  Today I was only getting 590 fps for the same number of pumps.  Near the end of the session velocities started creeping up again but by then I was too tired to continue.  Regardless of maximum velocity evaluation of the mean velocity per group and the standard deviation allowed me to eliminate several pellets from consideration.  The 17gr Ruger Superpoints and the now discontinued 17.9gr H&N Sniper Magnums were the best with one hole groups at twenty yards.

[bReTt]

I went to work for 32 hours in a row.  Maybe I’ll get to use some of that $$$ for airgun stuff.  🤷🏻‍♂️

[Whirligig]

Thinking about who I should leave my pretty significant airgun collection to in my will. None of my family would want them or know what to do with them.

There's a local fish and game club that's my first choice, so far. I've had bad luck giving friends airguns to try to get them involved in the hobby; as far as I know, all but one of them has used them irresponsibly, despite me telling them specifically how to handle and use them. The one possible exception is a powder-burner guy who has experience with firearms, but I've lost contact with him, so I'm not sure the even he is being responsible with the Ruger Blackhawk and P17 that I gave him.

Only serious suggestions please.

Thanks,

-W