After years of trolling Craigslist I finally found something neat and managed to get first in line to snag it. Hopefully I'll have it in my possession relatively soon. In the meantime what am I buying??
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Thanks for the info! Still waiting for a reply to organize the pick-up/shipping but I confirmed in buying it this AM. I've been wanting a single shot and a center-fire bolt and the strange air rig are icing on the cake!
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It showed up today, but naturally I've got a bunch of post work tasks to deal with.
It's pretty interesting, and definitely was well loved and heavily modified by the previous owner. The bolt it definitely a center-fire, the frame has some extra holes that I assume went to a stock, it has a tank adapter, a sight rail and some kind of collar the at back near the bolt that I'm real curious about.
Sometime this week (hopefully tonight) I'll tear it down and report back. It looks like some kind of red machine grease was spread throughout the barrel and on the bolt to prevent rust? But it cocks and dry fires so I'm calling it a win!
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XEMON I'd say about a half inch or so.
I had about a half hour or so to take it apart and check out what's going on inside, the bolt itself is pretty neat, and the previous owner had smeared machine grease along the inside so the brass is in great shape and there's very little cleaning to do.
The valve pin was trashed, and the cup seal and o rings turned into some kind of mushy powder but if I've got time after work tomorrow I'm gonna see if it airs up.
I'm pretty excited with this snag so far!
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Works been nuts, might be a couple of days before I dig back into it.
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Just did a test fire and it works! I'm going to need to make a slightly longer pump arm, the current one is functional but gets just a bit tight with how much the slot in the pump handle goes into the trigger frame. Somehow work was more chaotic today, but I'm really hoping to get out this Saturday to either Xtreme or warzone to give it a whirl.
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I did a little mockup after my first attempt to strip the paint off the body. It's definitely lathered on there, and the strange collar around the backend of the chamber tube doesn't seem to want to budge, neither does the sight rail.
Initially I wanted to make my second pgp into something really piratey to match my salty soul, but part of me is liking the idea of a bluefork trigger, cci frame and some kind of sight like the one armson makes
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I did indeed, it's pretty well seized on there, seems like some moisture got in between the collar and the body. While my experience with metals is all in a marine environment, I've always been taught that mixed metals+moisture=bad times, I'm guessing this collar is aluminum as it failed the magnet test and certainly isn't brass.
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After a whole lot of brasso and paint stripper I was able to leverage the collar off using the backed out set screw and an Allen key for leverage. There was definitely some corrosion under there, but some 1500 grit sand paper took care of that.
It leaks (as expected) and the bolt I swapped into it doesn't seem to be catching consistently. I've got feeling it's in part due to the angle the pressure comes from when cocking it, so I'll probably tap the back of the bolt and attach the brass knob there.
It still needs a bit of TLC but I'm liking the direction it's going in. I'm debating setting up some kind of feed for it using brass tube and some scope rings on the sight rail.
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Originally posted by Impactfour View Post... and a broken hopper adapter made of PVC.
Could I see a picture of this? 🤔
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