jonnie bravo 572 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Top job Matty! This might be a stupid question but what is v gliding? 1 Quote Link to post
mattybugeye 884 Posted June 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 You do some excellent work Matty i enjoy reading your project write ups. Well done mate Thanks mate I really enjoy doing them Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,729 Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Very interesting stuff matt - I'm looking forwards up having a go! 1 Quote Link to post
mattybugeye 884 Posted June 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Top job Matty! This might be a stupid question but what is v gliding? The piston is spun in a lathe and some rings are cut to seat a Delrin ring that's custom made to suite at top and bottom of piston (similar to how they used to button a piston) to keep the piston slide down the chamber much smoother and stop any rattling effect as moves down comp tube where normally would just burr your piston it has deffo improved the consistency and accuracy ten fold need to get me a lathe lol enemy sounds different I think 1 Quote Link to post
mattybugeye 884 Posted June 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Cheers Tom will get proper test run tommorw Quote Link to post
jonnie bravo 572 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Top job Matty! This might be a stupid question but what is v gliding? The piston is spun in a lathe and some rings are cut to seat a Delrin ring that's custom made to suite at top and bottom of piston (similar to how they used to button a piston) to keep the piston slide down the chamber much smoother and stop any rattling effect as moves down comp tube where normally would just burr your piston it has deffo improved the consistency and accuracy ten fold need to get me a lathe lol enemy sounds different I think Ooh so the black rings on the piston? Pretty sure my PS has that, good to know! Cheers for explaining mate. Did you manage to remove most of the preload? Quote Link to post
mattybugeye 884 Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Yes there is just a thin Delrin ring at top of spring now between the v Mach sleeve and spring She's doing 11.7 with a field 1 Quote Link to post
jonnie bravo 572 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Ooft very nice mate keep up the good work! Cheers for posting Quote Link to post
mattybugeye 884 Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Well was up early this morning so made a cupa got myself set up at living room window paced out 30 yd and put a thick board up and some targets At 1st I wasn't getting much in the way of groups was getting really disheartened so had a cig and a coffee and started again had to zero her again at 30 Yd then wow was back stacking pellets guess it was the person holding it at 1st lol These are 3 shot groups at 30yd The one above is just slightly larger than one hole mainly paper rip So moved it 10 yd back these are 40 yd and 5 shot groups Above group just covered by a 5p Then pushed to 50yd Again a 5 shot group Not the neatest but it is 50 yd!!! All groups were using aa field I tried accupels too but were hit and miss not completely settled on a field yet though at 20yd they single hole but 30-50 start to open up a bit so will try other brands But overall very happy with it will be out hunting over next few days so will hopefully bag something too It's doing 11.69-11.77 over ten shots with a 7 ft per second variation but I think this will settle as it beds in no twang just a dull thud and little nudge might do some trigger adjusting as slightly too heavy on 2nd stage for me Thanks for all the comments The finished old beauty 3 Quote Link to post
kilbs66 23 Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Nice rifle well done Cheers Mike 1 Quote Link to post
mattybugeye 884 Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Just to add I wasn't happy with the consistency so stripped back down and a little grease had made its way to front of piston washer so re cleaned up and much better now 6ft per second diffence over ten shots and sat nice in the 11.7s Then had a run to shop and grabbed some different pellets as aa field just felt too loose in breech So!! Her fave food is h&n ftt in 5.53mm nice and tight and huge improvement in groups ...... 3 shots at 30 yd 5 shots at 30 yd 5 shots at 40 yd Day well spent id say (doubt our lass agrees lol) Few beers out in garden now to celebrate (any excuse) Just thought I'd add to end of thread the little improvement Cheers all 2 Quote Link to post
threelander 81 Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 i got a a few weeks back matty and tinkered about with it now doing 11.4 with aa fields and like yours nice and smooth.theres one thing for sure matty when you get the running nice its very accurate and very easy to shoot.well done with the resto mate it looks well but i would loose the butt pad mate 1 Quote Link to post
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