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Wayne52 · « **Reply #200 on:** January 30, 2022, 04:54:09 PM »

I've done it one time to see if it retained air and it didn't, plenty of preload for 10 pumps in stock form. I just got back down from the attic again shooting a different target, the next target I take up there will be a bad guy target.

Back_Roads · « **Reply #201 on:** January 30, 2022, 05:10:36 PM »

In my "torture test," surgery gun I have pumped to 20 times with no retained air, just a puff, if so , not enough to budge a pellet in the breach. Seems Like a Maximus spring in these.

Keepingitsimple · « **Reply #202 on:** January 30, 2022, 05:13:33 PM »

Quote from: Spacebus on January 19, 2022, 02:37:08 PM

Quote from: Firewalker on January 19, 2022, 02:08:08 PM
My hands are not able to grab pellets so I use suture forceps to pick them up by the skirts and place them on the probe.

I'm thinking about getting a pellet pen, this is the most annoying single shot I own to load.

All of my air rifles have their own pellet pen. I buy the vinyl belts they sell at Dollar for a dollar and slice off 10 inches and then slice that in half for 2 five inch pieces. Duct tape those lightly together to hold the pen. I use a strip of gorilla duct tape to hold the scabbard and pen to the stock.

Looks tacky, of course. But, its very handy for keeping 15 pellets at hand.`

avator · « **Reply #203 on:** January 30, 2022, 05:16:38 PM »

Never had any joy with a pellet pen. If loading is a problem, I prefer to use squeezers.

Keepingitsimple · « **Reply #204 on:** January 30, 2022, 05:46:39 PM »

Quote from: avator on January 30, 2022, 05:16:38 PM

Never had any joy with a pellet pen. If loading is a problem, I prefer to use squeezers.

Except for springer's, I don't use pellet pens for loading pellets. Just for keeping them handy. I too use curved cross action tweezers sometimes with this one and other hard to load guns. If not for squeezers, loading my Winchester 1977 would have eventually driven me batty.

Wayne52 · « **Reply #205 on:** January 31, 2022, 04:07:25 AM »

With a single shot I've always just carried a small tin of pellets with me in the woods.

here's another C362 plinking video

avator · « **Reply #206 on:** January 31, 2022, 11:47:29 AM »

Talked to Mike today. he is the Sr. Supervisor in our tool and die department here at work.
I'm going to bring him my 24" .177 Crosman barrel this afternoon and he will cut it to 21" and crown it for me on the lathe.
My 18" barrel extends out the front of the factory barrel band by maybe 1/4". I think the added 3' will be perfect if I choose to put something on the end of it.

avator · « **Reply #207 on:** January 31, 2022, 11:49:49 AM »

I scavenged some scope stop grub screws from a few scope rings I had laying around. I'm going to see if these will do as trigger adjusting screws.

avator · « **Reply #208 on:** January 31, 2022, 03:28:03 PM »

My .177 barrel is in the trusting hands of Mike in the tool and die shop.
He will cut it to 21" and crown it and I'll have it back in a very short time.
Mike was one of the first guys I met when I came here in 2013. I actually applied for a tool and die position because that's what I did for Honda before moving south. Mike interviewed me and recommended me for the supervisor's position in the press department. A week later I got the call and was made an offer.
Since then, Mike and I, along with a few others, enjoyed riding our Harleys together up until I sold mine a couple years ago. We still spend alot of time talking about fishing and shooting.
Mike is one of the good guys.

EdinGa · « **Reply #209 on:** January 31, 2022, 03:34:41 PM »

I'm still waiting on parts to put my .25 conversion back together. I need some free time to do some wadcutter casting before I get it done too. I'm also low on slugs. I thought life was supposed to slow down once the kids were grown but it hasn't happened yet.

It's good to have talented friends, isn't it? I've got a buddy like that too.

avator · « **Reply #210 on:** January 31, 2022, 03:40:48 PM »

Well, I used to have a cheapo HF lathe. The tooling was missing and they were scrapping it here at work. I could chuck the barrel is and cut them with a hacksaw blade then crown and polish with files and stones. The plastic belt finally broke on that lathe and I scrapped it out... no belt to be found.
Now I just bring stuff to Mike when I need it.

avator · « **Reply #211 on:** January 31, 2022, 05:25:12 PM »

Barrel is done. Just need to chuck up a brass screw in a drill and polish the crown a bit.

Firewalker · « **Reply #212 on:** January 31, 2022, 07:07:30 PM »

Quote from: avator on January 31, 2022, 05:25:12 PM

Barrel is done. Just need to chuck up a brass screw in a drill and polish the crown a bit.

I think Ill do that as well, just not getting consistency. $:-\$

avator · « **Reply #213 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:04:04 AM »

Gathering 'stuff' for the #805 reinvention....
I probably have had this gun apart and back together more times than our resident Crosman engineer, John....

I'm hoping this one more time will seal the deal and I can lock it all in with thread locker.
Trigger..
Going with the Baker brass trigger. I plan on drilling and tapping the frame for short first stage pull and stop. I'll most likely use either the Baker brass trigger supplied screws or salvaged scope ring stop grubs.... or maybe a combination of both.
I ordered a couple bolt probes and I'm gonna give on a try... https://onlinestore.magnumairpower.com/products/22-long-nose-bolt If no good I will go with the current one. It's the stock one that came with the gun. I knocked the bolt knob out and tapped it for one of several I have on hand.

avator · « **Reply #214 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:07:40 AM »

Next will be the forward screw breech. I have the short rear screw from previous adventures.
I removed the green hammer spacer.
I'll be using the 1760SE Crosman 24" .177 barrel chopped and crowned at 21".
Also gonna use the red Maximus stock transfer port.

Wayne52 · « **Reply #215 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:12:09 AM »

Bill that looks like the perfect bolt/probe for a successful probe on a modified C362, no fuss no muss, well worth $11

avator · « **Reply #216 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:16:50 AM »

Next I will be putting flat rubber washers on edge and trimmed to size in the cocking arm metal works to quiet the clakeiy clack.
I took the flat metal piece that the magnet grabs out of Betty Lou's #782 gun. It don't seem to want to pop open without it so I may look at removing the magnet and replacing it with a rubber bumper instead.

Sights.... this is where it gets interesting....
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1005064221?pid=186476

avator · « **Reply #217 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:17:29 AM »

Thanks Wayne... they should arrive tomorrow, I ordered 2.

Wayne52 · « **Reply #218 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:18:36 AM »

Bill you must have gotten the last of those bolt/probes because they're now showing out of stock

avator · « **Reply #219 on:** February 01, 2022, 11:20:44 AM »

Some of you might remember my 2240 stubby builds, Willie G. Stubbs and his Twisted Sister. These are the peep sight I used on those guns.

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