Thundercat Rescued

[Garyfu.70]

Picked up a couple Thundercats...both were in sad shape.......

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Was able to save one so far
It was a disaster inside, but cleaned it up, and it held air and cycled.
Always wanted an older ICD marker.

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[Super Nova]

nice work

[Garyfu.70]

Thanks!
Evaporust is my friend.

[bellicose]

Watch out. I wanted a Thundercat too, now I have one. And a puma and an alley cat. Them kitties keep multiplying.

[Garyfu.70]

I fear you're correct. I've got another to unseize and get back to functional.
They are smaller than they appear in pictures, very nice marker, especially for a blowback.

[un2xs]

Indeed they seem to multiple almost as much as AutoMags. I think I have multiples of every cat... but don't have a second generation Puma yet. (They don't have the, err, bevels between the two pieces.)

Did they make a second gen Bobcat?

[bellicose]

Yeah, they are cheaper (on average) than mags, which makes them better in that regard. There was a time in which I was heavy into mags, and I'll buy the $100 cat over the $1000 mag now. Probably have owned close to a hundred mags over the years.

[BrickHaus]

Check out Myrkuls thread on modernizing a cat. That spacer in the bolt trick is so simple yet so helpful.

[Myrkul]

Thank you! I was pretty proud I figured that one out.

Here is the link.

https://www.mcarterbrown.com/forum/p...-modernization

[Garyfu.70]

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[Garyfu.70]

Question on the vertical valve.
Is that little ball on the tip supposed to be free rolling?