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  1. foxon
    Sounds like a main valve stuck open or a blown seal, take to a good Gunsmith or send back to Theoben Ltd West NewlandsSomersham Cambridgeshire PE28 3EB, email sales@theoben.co.uk or www.theoben.co.uk tel 01487 740744 They will charge £59.50 for full service & repair, if it is an FAC you will have to take in Face to Face or via RFD. Atb, foxon.
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    foxon replied to a topic in Airgun Hunting

    Interesting points of view there Stealthy. I'll give you my take on that if I may. As long as we stay within the law, everything is in the green zone as far as I am concerned because we are never going to get the antis to understand let alone support our way of life and what it stands for. I for one will not change my ways of doing things because it would be more appealing to some anti. Especially not if I have to cut back on anything that I enjoy, because it does not matter what we do, they are going to try to rub our noses in everything that is just a touch out of line for them and their poi
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    As all aboves. Use your scope to zoom out to reduce target picture & zoom in for pellet placement adjusting focus, lots of hunters spot with there scopes, your 3x9 with a 42 opening should be ample. foxon.
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    Hi Don, Yes they are prone to leaks but this Lad seems to have a tidy original with buddy & pump, I know they are changeing hands with collectors upwards of £500, I sent one to a BSA collector in Holland last summer for £465, this was the rifle only, lets see how well he does with her, there's not that many about & doubt many produced, I remeber they had a retail price of £230 in the 90's, I found & old BSA invoice & was buying each unit for £160 inc vat. Atb, Glynn.
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    Contact Gunpower, they are very helpfull & will give the build date from your frame serial No. Here is their web site. http://www.gunpower.org.uk/ Atb, foxon.
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    Would defo blow your cover Ryan, but what a nice item, have not seen one for years, last one I looked at belonged to two Didacoys who wanted their one putting over the limit, it had a 4" nail holding the stock on as I remember & a piece of Dexion shelving used as a pump arm, I declined the job offer. Glynn.
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    silencers

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Hi Ryan, no secret just a lot of work in the prep, everything must be oil free & back to clean bright metal, the acid used is commercial & not safe for DIY use, takes many years to master, I still have many attempts at getting it right after 20 years on some jobs as there are many finishes, like deep blu, matt blu military type finishes on service revolvers & rifles, the list is endless, but recommend Phillips liquid blu for that adapter you are doing if it's in steel. ATB, Glynn.
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    Dan, hope all goes well, all you should have to do is feed some nice pellets through her & enjoy, I have to go out on a shoot, so hope one of THLs finest will be there if you need any help, been good & a blast from the past. ATB, foxon.
  9. foxon
    Sorry to keep you waiting all this excitement had to go for a smoke, yes it's as simple as that screw in hear it his & your done. foxon.
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    Fill the bottle to 200 as this is a good pressure to run the Spitfire at, as they will ballance out the forces of one into the other, regulator on the Spitfire is poor, so hit & miss on first lot of shots but will peak at 120/30 bar. foxon.
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    Hi Dan, do not put paint on whatever you do, just leave as is, if the Spitfire is original keep it that way, let a collector or buyer have the work done, but enjoy her while you can, a good place to advertise is Gunmart, an overseas buyer will notice for sure or a UK buyer. ATB, foxon.
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    Dan I have to be honest with you if in good condition with the original buddy bottle & pump upwards of £500, most of these live in the USA, was an agent for this & the Firebird back in the 90s they did not take on so only few survive, when I did not get a reply I thought I heard the penny drop, Spitfire has the large silencer. Good luck with her. foxon. i take my hat of to ya Many thanks Davyt63 looks like the lad has a little GEM there, the Yanks will snap his arm for that one. foxon.
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    Dan I have to be honest with you if in good condition with the original buddy bottle & pump upwards of £500, most of these live in the USA, was an agent for this & the Firebird back in the 90s they did not take on so only few survive, when I did not get a reply I thought I heard the penny drop, Spitfire has the large silencer. Good luck with her. foxon.
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    I will send a cheque to you for the lot if you like plus postage. foxon.
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    It will be the BSA Spitfire if it has that quirky cockingdevice, but does that one have the longer barrel either way if it is the Firebird or the Spitfire I would be interested in buying. foxon.
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    Sounds like the BSA Firebird break barrel pcp carbine came in HF & LF with small buddy bottle fill & a needle rod indicator for fill pressure, a 90s icon getting rare. foxon.
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    silencers

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    I'm thinking you must be an engineer of sorts Scuba, I don't think we have any more shipyards left in Britain? ATB, Glynn.
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    There are many good products on the market available to counter Customers, the best one that can be bought over the counter is the Birchwood Casey blu & rust remover, but to remove the rust from any metal is by hand useing different grades of grit as not to damage address, if there is any rust or pitting & bluing hot or cold is placed over the top it will show through as a ginger colour & carry on rusting, home use cold blu is pretty poor, but if you have a small area to cover it is ok, but it must be preped realy well with bare oil free metal showing. foxon. so 2 get the m
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    silencers

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Scuba I know the one, model makers love them, I have an old Myford ex MOD lathe & a Colcheter mill, both ancient but I know them like the back of my hand, saves a lot of time too rather than waiting on a part, I see on ebay they have the sealey copy of the Emco on there, ideal for those little jobs. foxon.
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    There are many good products on the market available to counter Customers, the best one that can be bought over the counter is the Birchwood Casey blu & rust remover, but to remove the rust from any metal is by hand useing different grades of grit as not to damage address, if there is any rust or pitting & bluing hot or cold is placed over the top it will show through as a ginger colour & carry on rusting, home use cold blu is pretty poor, but if you have a small area to cover it is ok, but it must be preped realy well with bare oil free metal showing. foxon.
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    silencers

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    You are very correct there Hughesey, the problem is setting it all up for a one off, have done a batch of 10 that had been proven before I made that many, but was still a good two days work, you could not make a living from this alone, you would need a machine pre set for each prosess plus a finishing area for polishing & bluing, even if you were only makeing sleve type silencers without threading, there are still a lot of proceses during production. foxon.
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    silencers

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Could not agree more with you Scuba, how did he chop his rifle & why? ATB, Glynn.
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    silencers

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Good Quality silencers off the shelf are realitively cheap to buy, so long as they work well with your rifle, if I build a rifle or tune for a Customer I will build a silencer around the perfomance of that I have tuned, it is quite labour intensive useing stock items, as you have a lot of machining prosesses like threading boring & bluing, unless you are doing this on a large scale it is not cost effective when you can bulk buy HWs or BSAs for as little as £12 per unit. foxon.
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    sawn off

    foxon replied to fez123's topic in Airgun Hunting

    This is a very grey area, if you look at the action of an air rifle it is a lot longer than most pistols, so if you lop of the stock & barrel, you still have a sizeable lump that is not easy to conceal, like a lot of Squirrel controlers do they bob them, so they can dispatch humanely in the trap, in the eyes of the Law it all comes down to purpose, if a lad on a houseing estate were running around with such an item I am sure the Police would use every power they had to bring a charge of illegal firearm, if a pest controller were to use one in his day to day work I doubt they would give a s
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    foxon replied to a topic in Airgun Hunting

    As above Scuba, will make it easier to locate a specific topic. foxon.
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