The Modern Pneumatic Airgun Quot Book By H M Buckley
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I think it's a bit unfair to let Pedro do all the writing here... so here is the story behind my build. Eighteen months ago I got a small bench lathe. The lathe had belonged to a relative, who had sadly passed away. The lathe ended up in my garage since I'm the tool \"monkey\" of the family. Since I had no previous experience with lathes or milling machines I spent a good deal of time trying to understand how things work, and then produce some chips. I've always been interested in shooting and it seemed like a natural thing to try to make my own gun. Considering the gun laws (in Sweden) airguns are about the only guns I can build without a lot of trouble doing paperwork etc. I then found Mr. Buckley's first book, \"The Modern Pneumatic Airgun\". What a book! The book has loads of information for someone like me that has no experience regarding PCP guns.
I started making some airgun parts and got kind of stuck after a while. I did not trust my thread cutting abilities enough to make my own air tube. I was also lacking some of the tooling needed to complete the build. Anyway, I had the process spinning in the back of my head for a while, and then one day I got an e-mail from Mr. Buckley. He informed me he had a new book coming out, \"The Modern Stock Reservoir Airgun.\" I ordered the book right away, and YES! This was a build that could pull off with my tools and no need to farm out the work. I started gathering material and pestered my friends for materials. I looked through all my piles of bits 'n' bobs for what could be used and found and second hand air bottle on ebay. I ordered a barrel blank. By the beginning of December 2008 I started making chips. First step was to drill two holes 150mm deep, straight and parallel in what was going to be the receiver. The piece was drilled on my lathe, I bolted the work piece to the cross slide. Since my lathe is small I had to go easy on the drilling. I think I spent almost 3 hours on drilling those holes. Also had to make my own boring tool to be able to bore out to 22.8mm. After that reaming the holes was a breeze. Then started with the valve that I turned from a piece of brass I received from a friend (thanks Dennis!).
This is one of the alterations I made from Mr. Buckley's drawings; the valve housing is held in place by means of grub screws since I have difficulties cutting internal threads in the receiver because I do not have a 4 jaw chuck. After finishing the valve, I went on with the striker. I milled two notches on the striker for the sear to engage, one full power and another for low power (for indoor plinking). Sort of a poor man's power adjuster but works really well. Machining the bolt was a straightforward job. I made it with interchangeable \"transfer pipes\" so that I can change transfer port size in order to adjust power output. I have actually made two bolts. The first one made of aluminum, with transfer pipe made of brass. Reason for making it from aluminum was that I had no brass rod available at the time. I think the pictures shows the alloy bolt. The trigger mechanism took some work with the old file to function properly. I also added an extra spring-loaded plunger to take up the slack. If I had followed the drawings, I guess that spring wouldn't be needed. The night I made the trigger I had left the book at my clinic. The first test firing of the airgun I made was by putting the \"airgun\" in my bench vice, loading a pellet in the barrel and tap the valve stem with a hammer and a piece of nylon rod. Safety goggles and hearing protectors on! I had also placed a piece of 2x4\" at the estimated point of impact... I really didn't know what to expect as I have never fired a PCP- airgun or even seen one in real life before this. So I was a bit nervous. Anyway, everything worked out well! The airgun fired, and pellet was stopped by the 2x4\". 153554b96e