Made In The USSR, The Green Machine

[JayB0 125]

Fancied trying my luckk at restoring an air rifle to the same Standards as BigMac97kt (long shot I know lol) One of Phillpot’s mates had given me old Russian rifle to practice on before I attempted my HW35,

So I spent the best part of a week stripping the old varnish and the green paint off the whole rifle, and sanding away all the roughness, and uncovered some amazing grains.

Tonight I popped down to Jimmy’s, as he has a bench grinder and to clean up all the parts of the action, which was a lot easier in my head I might add.

So now it’s been polished and just waiting on me buying a blueing kit, Jimmy’s lent me some grease for when the time comes to put it back together, and the leather piston seal needs some TLC(if anyone has any suggestions for this I’d greatly appreciate it)

And when I find the free time I’ll start to oil the stock and get it perfect, I’m sure Jimmy had fun sending me back to the grinder to sort out missed spots

Atvbjason 

Edited July 9, 2021 by JayB0

[bigmac 97kt 13,817]

It had better be right 

Or I'm taking the 35 off you and I'll do it my self 

The pic with the wet patch is how the stock will look when oiled 

This is an old Russian rifle 

Not many around has a split in the stock and to be honest I fixed it 

But JayB0 did the rest I told him what to do and showed him on the grinder (wire wheel) 

But I just sat and sent him back when it was not right 

When it comes to the Bluing it's all in the prep it has to be right 

Polished the piston, the spring, spring guide, 

Air chamber barrel and bits and bobs 

He is getting there lol

No Jason it's not as easy as it is in your head son lol

Atvbjimmy

[bigmac 97kt 13,817]

O by the way Jay 

It's in the wrong section 

[Kalibrgun 995]

When you think it's there .... Give it another polish to be safe looks 10x better than before you started. I don't have patience to do that so fair play looking good so far

[Dervburner 2,549]

I quite liked it in green. Good luck with it fella, hope it turns out well

[philpot 5,056]

I should explain, this rifle, like a number of others have been taken to our village tip, my pal runs the site so if one comes in, it goes on his refurb list.. This was painted green as the first colour for a cammo job for his son who then changedd his mind and has sat in the shed for a couple of years until now so it will be nice to see how it turns out.

Phil

[JakeFury 225]

On 09/07/2021 at 21:38, JayB0 said:

Fancied trying my luckk at restoring an air rifle to the same Standards as BigMac97kt (long shot I know lol) One of Phillpot’s mates had given me old Russian rifle to practice on before I attempted my HW35,

So I spent the best part of a week stripping the old varnish and the green paint off the whole rifle, and sanding away all the roughness, and uncovered some amazing grains.

Tonight I popped down to Jimmy’s, as he has a bench grinder and to clean up all the parts of the action, which was a lot easier in my head I might add.

So now it’s been polished and just waiting on me buying a blueing kit, Jimmy’s lent me some grease for when the time comes to put it back together, and the leather piston seal needs some TLC(if anyone has any suggestions for this I’d greatly appreciate it)

And when I find the free time I’ll start to oil the stock and get it perfect, I’m sure Jimmy had fun sending me back to the grinder to sort out missed spots

Atvbjason 

Holy cow..... My old friend. I've got one of those... Thank fully in perfect nick.