Shorty Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Can anyone let me know who can tune and regulate my Fac rated Rapid. Cheers Shorty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolkngood Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Ben Taylor and Sons ( he was the Ben in theoBEN) did my MK2 a few years ago but not sure if he's still trading. He was designing for Milbro Sports Ltd too but I think I remember someone saying he'd packed in and gone travelling round world? They were just outside Newmarket Suffolk. I've just googled him and he still has a website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant.mass Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 kevg is your man if you pm me i give his email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 KecG seconded here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ben Taylor and Sons ( he was the Ben in theoBEN) did my MK2 a few years ago but not sure if he's still trading. He was designing for Milbro Sports Ltd too but I think I remember someone saying he'd packed in and gone travelling round world? They were just outside Newmarket Suffolk. I've just googled him and he still has a website. Ben Taylor isnt trading any more either ! For me it would be Darren at XTX air soley because he has a great reputation and hes far more local than KevG. ATB Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick miller Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ben Taylor would have also nawsed it up. KevG sorted mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ben Taylor isnt trading any more either ! For me it would be Darren at XTX air soley because he has a great reputation and hes far more local than KevG. ATB Matt Local to you maybe, but a damned site further from Norwich than Doncaster is! KevG is in Doncaster approximately 140 miles, XTX is in Lower Broadheath approximately 193 miles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted February 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks for all the replies chaps, I have taken it back to the RFD and he is going to sort all my problems out. If he does not come up with the goods then I will send KEVG an email. Shorty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocette Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Ben Taylor would have also nawsed it up. KevG sorted mine. Did Ben Taylor have a bad reputation then ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 He did a good job on Reggin my farthers AA S410, a great job and still working great 8ish years on ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick miller Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Umm, depends. Some folk swear by him, and I guess he did a reasonable job fitting my full Hugget mod and certainly sorted the trigger. But the conversion to FAC was expensive and, frankly, rubbish. Repeatedly blew the seals and dumped all the air. KevG remade the regulator and it's a different beast. Ultra reliable and great consistency. So, if you want something added or tweaked I'd say he's okay. But for a conversion to FAC no way, KevG's work is way better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Ben is a member on this site but I think he has now retired, if push comes to shove pm me. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Ben Taylor would have also nawsed it up. KevG sorted mine. You are having a laugh, he and Dave revolutionised air weapons, his inventive brain and Dave's design and engineering skill were world leading. I have over the years had several Theobens and have had the privilege to test most of the models they produced, never fired a bad one. First time I used an SLR magazine system a year or so before its public launch we put a very wide range of pellet weights in the same mag, at 25 yards they grouped into half an inch. Ben also did good work on the AMT rim fires they brought in the make them better behaved with subbies. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick miller Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 No laughs, his conversions to FAC are rubbish, simply making the regulator work as a free flow. If you can get one to hold air for more than a couple of months your doing well. The rest of the engineering on the Rapids is brilliantly robust, and no doubt at the time ground breaking. That wasn't the question though was it? The question was 'who can turn my Mk.1 Rapid into an FAC' and for that, in my experience and many others, KevG will do a better job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyshooter Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 I agree with you Dave , KevG is the man for Rapids atb brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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