Air pump maintenance

[jessered]

After a month of using my Benjamin pump a LOT, it started to feel just a little bit "off" while pumping. Did a complete field strip, clean, re-greased with food grade PTFE synthetic grease and reassembled. She is back to working like she should now.

The grease was really dirty inside but o-rings included the common failure point on the small rod were still in good shape. After seeing how it all works I will be doing regular maintenance on it from now on. Easy enough to strip it down and clean it all every couple of weeks when it is being used a lot.

Have a feeling that the same regular maintenance should be done on any pump. Anyone else doing regular preventative maintenance work on their pumps?

[Nomadic Pirate]

never before, but after opening my 2 Hills and Axsor after 2 years of hard work I'm convinced that at least once a quater is a good Idea to do some maintanence,....wish I did it from the get go

[oldrock]

good to know about routine maintenance on the Benjamin pumps. You didn't happen to take a pic or two of the process did you? I've only had my discovery for maybe a week and a half now  but I've shot well over 500 pellets already so I might need to start thinking about some routine service pretty soon.

[Bullit]

Jesse,  I think your lube choice is great!  Keep us updated.