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PM'd you Ant I have a full tuning guide to email you John

I use oil soaked wire wool, Depending on how bad the gun is, If it's a really good quality/condition gun i'll use the finest, Coarse wool for old munters!! Here's an old mk2 Airsporter that I had ten minutes on with coarse wool soaked with 3 in 1 oil End result.. Here's a Webley Hurricane I recently acquired.. Again, five minutes with the oily wool on the steel bits, I also fitted a rearsight and a foresight hood and polished the plastic/painted bits with a silicon impregnated shoe sghine sponge!! Managed to bag a cylinder shroud off the bay for £13.50 posted too!! John

Hither!! Clicky John

They're really nice old guns, I have a few (Model D and Standard ) John

I'm pretty sure I read that a metal similar to lead in weight is used quite a lot now, It's called Antimony, It shatters upon high speed contact with hard surfaces though! John

Wish I was closer to Leeds :(

I think health and safety only have authority in workplaces (May be wrong tho') If someone bought it for home use then I think it would be fine. I'd say that this compressor is probably better made and would last ten times longer than than the cheap tat that's sold at the likes of Aldi/Lidl etc these days John

Hi I had a couple that I customised, I only have the dark one now as I swapped the silver one for a pristine mk6 Airsporter! I replaced the crappy plastic breeches that don't allow a scope to be fitted comfortably, I replaced the barrel on the dark one with a Crosman 2250 (Rabbitstopper) barrel, This will up the muzzled energy a little but a stronger hammer spring would do a better job!! I'm thinking of removing the 24" barrel and shortening it to 18" as it feels unbalanced when shooting! I had to make a bolt for the black one as the steel breech didn't come with one! I also made a brass adapter on my lathe for the silver one to fit a silencer that was too large for the dinky 10mm dia barrel!! John

Hi Rimfireboy Of all the pistols that were common in my youth, The Cougars were up there with them but strangely, I've never even held one!! From pics i've seen they look a bit poorly made but I can't say with any certainty John

Doh!! Three of the pistols in my last post are actually Co2 guns John

A few more Third down is new to me! John

Some of my little 'uns John

That's great Bb,Probably running as efficient as a Webbo can They normally do around 3.5ft lbs I love the old Webley pistols and the Premier is the top of the heap Cheers, John

It's how the ****** came to me!! I dropped it to be legal but went too far !! I'd rather have a gun way under the legal limit than a tiny bit over, It's not worth the risks It's safe now John

There's a fair bit of kick due to a strong spring, The piston travelling back'ards and a short barrel Oh and the fact that i'm a **** shot John

Hi I recently bought a Myford ML7, the hole through the spindle isn't huge though and only certain barrels would go through I reckon (Not set up yet!! ) A couple of years ago I swapped my wood working lathe for this Granville Senior which is so similar to the ML7 that certain parts can be swapped over!! Both machines are superb regarding tolerances but the granville has a larger bore through the spindle so will take more barrels for threading/Crowning It's typical that the one I have set up is a 100 year old flat cone pulley machine that's so worn that parallel turning is out of the question!! I also have a couple of baby lathes too! Flexispeed 7, This was made 100 yds from where I used to live!!! And a Wade, Both the Wade and the Flexispeed use right hand threaded rods for travel/travers so in a moment of absent mindedness, a job can be ruing when backing the tool off as it actually advances it!! John

As already said, The Scorpion shoots over 5ft lbs, I believe the early ones (prototypes) had to be detuned as they went over 6ft lbs The Magnum 240's are powerful too but again, as alreadyd said, Hard to hit a horse's butt at ten paces John

I took my Theoben Fenman to a shoot, My arm was killing after 15 mins so I strapped on the Combro when I got home- 18ft lbs! I removed the action and the valve cover and gave the valve about 15 or so light taps then tried it again..... 8ft lbs, It was just as bluddy hard to cock as when it was way over!! I'll have to buy an adapter now to get it up to around 11ft lbs John

Hi Wacker Your rifle is a 'Light pattern' rifle (L prefix denotes this ) From the serial number it was produced in 1923/24, Nice guns

Depression is a terrible thing, My youngest brother took his own life just before Christmas due to it, The hospital where he had stayed for a month previous didn't really want to know John

I think the Diana Stuttie is the Model 46 John

Definitely!! John

The top one in the first pic is a Hofmann Premier, I paid £50 for it, I was given a full trigger unit from a 77 that a member on here saved when he scrapped the rifle, I fitted a new spring as the power was very low, It shoots superbly now!! The very bottom Export with the stripped stock I paid £60 for, A previous owner had done a home cammo job on it (Awful!!) S9o I stripped the lot and had a go at a cold reblue! The parts came out fantastic but after three months had faded to grey, It hadn't even been handled I reblued three actions, A Stutzen Airsporter, A Mk1 Airsporter and the 35, All three looked fab but all three faded horribly I'm of the opinion that home blueing isn't worthy the time it takes to read the instructions now John

Hi Fenboy The 35Luxus was a bit nicer as it was an Export model but with a raised comb which made the larger scopes easier to use John

The UK one will need to be changed at some time as Scotland looks set to put all airguns 'On ticket' John