Tuning Kits

[si brown 8,486]

Whatever you do get a kit that fits the spring. So if you intend to buy a kit without a spring send the spring off to them to machine the guides exactly (I.e. Tinbum tuning) or buy a kit with a spring supplied.

I've had 2 tbt kits that were not a good fit for the factory spring. Not dissing tbt as he will machine the guides bespoke if you send him the spring.

Your right jonnie

I recon about % of a good tune is sorting the spring out,removing the whap and Spring bounce!

= a more consistent output and manageable /predictable recoil!

Which can be done at home easily with ptfe sheets and spacing the preload out!

Never fettled a hw springer but they can't be far removed from a tx which is a pice of pi55

Have a crack at it yourself te-duke

Watch shooting at dawn on YouTube, great bloke and good videos by a real springer man!

Atb si

[jonnie bravo 572]

 

Whatever you do get a kit that fits the spring. So if you intend to buy a kit without a spring send the spring off to them to machine the guides exactly (I.e. Tinbum tuning) or buy a kit with a spring supplied.

I've had 2 tbt kits that were not a good fit for the factory spring. Not dissing tbt as he will machine the guides bespoke if you send him the spring.

Your right jonnie

I recon about % of a good tune is sorting the spring out,removing the whap and Spring bounce!

= a more consistent output and manageable /predictable recoil!

Which can be done at home easily with ptfe sheets and spacing the preload out!

Never fettled a hw springer but they can't be far removed from a tx which is a pice of pi55

Have a crack at it yourself te-duke

Watch shooting at dawn on YouTube, great bloke and good videos by a real springer man!

Atb si

Not as easy to remove the trigger and no glided piston but other than that pretty much the same!

 

I've recently fitted a ptfe sleeve to my 99, the cocking linkage shoe needed a fair bit of sanding to stop it digging into the sleeve but there is zero twang zero gauling, smooth to cock and shoot. It has a tbt tophat but the original guide as it was a tighter fit than the tbt.

[TeDuke 276]

Thanks for the replys lads, I've been shooting with the 95 for over 12 months now and know how the gun shoots, I've not just bought the gun and wanting a tuning kit in it, I'm getting good groupings and knocking game over with it but I just feel that the action could be alot smoother with less twang and thought that a tuning kit might be the way forward, I'll give it a clean and debur and regrease it and see if that helps any, again thanks for the advice it most welcome... TeDuke

[Rez 4,961]

Thanks for the replys lads, I've been shooting with the 95 for over 12 months now and know how the gun shoots, I've not just bought the gun and wanting a tuning kit in it, I'm getting good groupings and knocking game over with it but I just feel that the action could be alot smoother with less twang and thought that a tuning kit might be the way forward, I'll give it a clean and debur and regrease it and see if that helps any, again thanks for the advice it most welcome... TeDuke

Your probably in the best position to fit one then my man. If you've spent time with it standard and achieving what you are happy with, why not. Get the kit in, it can only get better.

 

95's... Off subject, but they've never really floated my boat... and I have no idea why, they should do. There like the .20 of the calibre world, 99 being a .177 and being .22, yet I have a .20 HM. Hmmmm. Ill have to think about that one.

[si brown 8,486]

Big pot of c/v boot moly grease £4 from auto shop, ace for spring lube

[Greyman 28,944]

I own an old bsa Mercury, that I have totally stripped and rebuilt myself, I honed the cylinder, made a ptfe piston head, Spring guide and top hat, plus new spring, but one of the best little tweaks I made was to drill out the port from inside the cylinder with a tapered bit, before it was just a 2mm hole from piston chamber through to the pellet, now it's around 5 mill in the cylinder tapering down to 3mm on he breach side, I don't think people like this to be known because it increases the power as well,,I had to remove five coils from the spring to bring it back to 11.5 ft lb but it's as smooth as silk and pellet on pellet accurate at 25 yards, also takes as much game as my pcp and makes a very dull thud when fired, the gun was a basket case when I started so had nothing to loose,it was hitting around 6/7 ft lb and struggling to hit my garage at the end of the garden, oh I also cut 6" off the barrel and recrowned it, all this was done with know previous experience and just following other people on YouTube, with very minimal tooling,

[si brown 8,486]

Nice one greyman

Job well done

I've fettled top hats and piston heads with a dremel but I put it down to being a tight Yorkshire man!! Lol

Atb si

[villaman 9,983]

Well my 95 is just as quiet as any of my PCP . This gun shoots spot on , faster lock time and hardly any recoil

I would say it's better than my SFS IMP . Dave Price who did the work on the 95, certainly lives up to his reputation as a top spring gun tuner that's for sure

[charlie caller 3,654]

Whatever you do get a kit that fits the spring. So if you intend to buy a kit without a spring send the spring off to them to machine the guides exactly (I.e. Tinbum tuning) or buy a kit with a spring supplied.

 

I've had 2 tbt kits that were not a good fit for the factory spring. Not dissing tbt as he will machine the guides bespoke if you send him the spring.

Good advice, Vortek kits with spring included are very very good, google vortek spring kits, there is a guy in Lincolnshire does them, you wont regret it mate.

[jonnie bravo 572]

Well my 95 is just as quiet as any of my PCP . This gun shoots spot on , faster lock time and hardly any recoil

I would say it's better than my SFS IMP . Dave Price who did the work on the 95, certainly lives up to his reputation as a top spring gun tuner that's for sure

Not that I don't believe you but that is a very bold claim, noise wise