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by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 This report covers: • The spring-piston powerplant • How an AEG works • Upgrading an AEG • The problems with upgrading • How to upgrade safely When we last looked at airsoft upgrades, we talked about how the tuner has to look at the gun … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Airgun lubrication — spring guns: Part 1 This report addresses: • Identifing and lubricating high-stress parts • Lubricating with moly • Lubricating triggers • Lubrication intervals • Lubricating mainsprings • General lubrication • Preserving the airgun with oil Well, the immediate response we got to the first installment of … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 This report covers: • Learning to work on airsoft guns • Components of airsoft guns • Parts commonality — the airsoft way • Various upgrades to components • Need for a systematic approach to upgrades This report is the beginning of the second installment of a promise … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Today, I’m starting a long series on lubricating airguns. Blog reader Joe asked for this; but as I was researching the subject, I stumbled across another request that came in through the customer reviews on the Pyramyd AIR website: “I wish that RWS or Pyramydair would explain the process … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Today’s report is a guest blog from reader RifledDNA, a.k.a Stephen Larson. He wants to give us his impressions of a new Benjamin NP Limited Edition he recently received. If you’d like to write a guest post for this blog, please email me. Over to you, RifledDNA! Benjamin NP … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Last week, I made reference to a heavy top hat affecting performance in a spring gun, and blog reader Joe asked this question: “You wrote ‘…weighted top hat inside the piston, or the piston itself is heavy. Either way, the rifle should shoot medium and heavyweight pellets better than … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Falke model 70 is a quality breakbarrel spring-piston rifle from the 1950s. Today is accuracy day for our Falke model 70 breakbarrel. I tested this one at the same time I tested the BSA Meteor Mark IV; and after that horrible test, I was praying … Read more
