QB79 Tank Block Availability

[sculbert1]

I hope everyone has had an awesome and blessed Christmas holiday!

Every year at Christmas my family gets together and airguns are always gifts that are given and enjoyed. 

I have a couple of QB79 rifles with the Ninja 1100psi regulated bottles that I bring every year for everyone to play with.

This year I was gifted 3 "broken" QB78 rifles that I'd like to convert over to HPA for our Easter gathering.  I already have enough QB79 tubes, but it seems that the QB79 Tank Block has went the way of the Dodo Bird .

Does anyone know of a couple tank blocks floating around a guy could buy?

[Acapulco]

Give Mike a call @ Flying Dragon.

[SpiralGroove]

I think this is still a functioning business.
https://www.@#$%^.com/Archer-Airguns-Paintball-Tank-Adapter-for-QB79-p/qb79tankadapter.htm

[Ribbonstone]

Have had board discussions where they seem to be hard to find. ...haven’t seriously looked for them.

Not too hard to find LISTED on some sites, hard to find actually in stock.

(ArXXer is on the naughty list on this board….will automatically block the link)

Know the QB79’s are back (in stock at Amazon) after being MIA for a long time.  Are still marked “Beeman”, but getting parts from Beeman can be iffy.  Wouldn’t hurt to phone them (forget on-line ordering).

Were some aftermarket made blocks….and the Gauntlet I block should be able to work (although suspect a different retention screw location).

Might be worth posting a “WTB” ad here.  Likely there are some in air gun nut’s part’s boxes. Simple part, unless someone’s drilled on it, beat it with a hammer, or cross threaded the tank threads, an old one would work fine.

Lets assume you do find tank block. While I do NOT like the Qb79 tubes for high pressure, the fixation will work at low pressure.

My gripe is that the 79 tubes have little flats milled into the tube for the block fixation screws.  Those flats make the tube wall thinner right where you’d want them to be full wall thickness.

Evidently the QB79 is strong enough to work...the screw holes just “egg out” over time...would be nice for it to be as strong as it could have been.

[sculbert1]

Those  "Arrow guys" are out of stock on the tank blocks. 

I'm going to call Mike at Flying Dragon tomorrow and see if he has a couple left.

I'm really surprised to see how much the aftermarket support has dried up on these guns. They have always been my favorite to tinker with and for the most part, every one of them I've owned has shot excellently.

[Ribbonstone]

 Qb79’s went absent for about a year...didn’t think they’d bring them back considering how hard it is now to find 9oz. Co2 bottles (or smaller)  to use them as they were intended and they had to know how often we converted them into HPA’s to use them as they were unintended.

But evidently the spare QB79 tank blocks haven’t made the same come-back. 

The bulk fill QB78 end caps have been missing in action longer than that.  Too much temptation for Bubba with a hand pump to resist?

Just to add.

Bought one of the new batch of QB79’s  last August to convert to a HPA carbine (.177) to keep a .22 I converted back in 2007 company.  Not interested in power, more than happy at typical co2 power, just wanted air use for those two.

Had my metal smoothing/deburring gear all set out, spare o-rings at hand….and ended up not needing any of that.  Never had a QB come apart and go back together so slick before….not a single o-ring nick, burr, sharp edge detected.