Airsporter mk5 service/smoothing out

[hedge wanderer 51]

Cheers for the heads up mate, what I’m going to put in is,

A new piston head

a delrin top hat and spring guided

a piston sleeve

oh and a new lever retaining latch ?

all for the sum of £53... hope it’s worth it

[bigmac 97kt 13,732]

1 hour ago, hedge wanderer said:

Cheers for the heads up mate, what I’m going to put in is,

A new piston head

a delrin top hat and spring guided

a piston sleeve

oh and a new lever retaining latch ?

all for the sum of £53... hope it’s worth it

if it shoots out like the one i did it will not disappoint you

they were the in rifle to have back in the day

and still well sort after to day

atvbjimmy

[hedge wanderer 51]

Yeh my dad said they were even in the mid 80s. One of his mates managed to get his hands on a hw77 and my dad just couldn't get on with the weight of the thing. His current and only gun, a Theoben fenman is the only break barrel he's ever owned, all the others were airsporters starting with a mk5, an airsporter S and Rb Stutzen which he then traded for a webley raider while he was working in Oxford in the early 2000s. Regrets it massively he says but said out of all them the S was the one to have. Think he also had a few model 50s ?

Id say a good history of gun ownership ?

[bigmac 97kt 13,732]

1 minute ago, hedge wanderer said:

Yeh my dad said they were even in the mid 80s. One of his mates managed to get his hands on a hw77 and my dad just couldn't get on with the weight of the thing. His current and only gun, a Theoben fenman is the only break barrel he's ever owned, all the others were airsporters starting with a mk5, an airsporter S and Rb Stutzen which he then traded for a webley raider while he was working in Oxford in the early 2000s. Regrets it massively he says but said out of all them the S was the one to have. Think he also had a few model 50s ?

Id say a good history of gun ownership ?

And a man with taste

lets just hope his son takes after him

atvbjimmy

[hedge wanderer 51]

I do ? I also like the webley side levers too. There's a bloke who owns a junk shop as we call it in Newcastle with an airsporter mk2 in decent condition in the window. I'm guessing I could get for next to nothing compared to how much they're worth

[charlie caller 3,654]

2 hours ago, hedge wanderer said:

Cheers for the heads up mate, what I’m going to put in is,

A new piston head

a delrin top hat and spring guided

a piston sleeve

oh and a new lever retaining latch ?

all for the sum of £53... hope it’s worth it

Sounds spot on pal, all except the piston sleeve, if you lube the rifle correctly there is no need for one, and I find they mess with consistency in some rifles, but ye should be good when its done.

[hedge wanderer 51]

23 minutes ago, charlie caller said:

Sounds spot on pal, all except the piston sleeve, if you lube the rifle correctly there is no need for one, and I find they mess with consistency in some rifles, but ye should be good when its done.

The sleeve was to more or less dampen the sound of the spring hitting against the inside of the piston that's all

[bigmac 97kt 13,732]

3 hours ago, hedge wanderer said:

The sleeve was to more or less dampen the sound of the spring hitting against the inside of the piston that's all

Im with Tim on this

if you do it right you will not need one

and it will not stop the sound of the action any way

atvbjimmy

[charlie caller 3,654]

A tight fitting guide and a decent top hat along with correct lubrication is all that is needed to dampen the sound, a sleeve will do nothing, I do not like them and never use one, they are more hassle than they are worth, they were only designed to stop lube getting onto the piston seal, correct lubing is the key, not a poxy tin can in the piston, your gun pal but I would leave it out.

[hedge wanderer 51]

I'll take your advise mate.

Got the piston polished in my improvised polishing jig haha. Going to try and order the parts later on today

[hedge wanderer 51]

Cleaned up nicely

[bigmac 97kt 13,732]

SPOT ON MATE

LOOKS GOOD

AND THAT BY ITS SELF WITH A LITTLE MOLLY WILL IMPROVE THE RIFLE

ATVBJIMMY

[hedge wanderer 51]

Just out of curiosity, is the bisley gun grease a moly based grease, just I've got some of that kicking about. Will that do??

[hedge wanderer 51]

Lever retaining latch came. Believe it's from a mk2 as its metal and narrower than the one on the current rifle but should still work

[hedge wanderer 51]

Just for comparison, the original, broken one on the left the replacement on the right