Need to learn how to work on PCPs

Make friends with guys on here, share your phone numbers then you can share videos. I share a good bit of my airgun related exploits with one member here. And he shares stuff too.

I work on my mutants heck I work on all my airguns. my Cricket Standard started leaking on fill yesterday. Bad o ring on fill plug screw. And pressure gauge o ring bad also. Catching up on work needed on my Lelya 2.0.

Your cell phone is your best friend when working on airguns (or anything for that matter), just take pics of the assembly before removing screws, place your screws in a magnetic tray in order of removal.

The rest is a matter of careful attention to what you are doing.

Good luck with your projects!

I don’t know those guns individually but in my experience especially with a tube gun such as the taipans, when it comes down to it they are relatively the same. If you sit down and carefully go into it I think you might surprise yourself.

Firewalker said:

Your cell phone is your best friend when working on airguns (or anything for that matter), just take pics of the assembly before removing screws, place your screws in a magnetic tray in order of removal.

The rest is a matter of careful attention to what you are doing.

Good luck with your projects!

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Don’t forget the right and quality tools. The used airgun market is full of chewed up hacked guns because guys don’t have the right tools.

Vetmx said:

Don’t forget the right and quality tools. The used airgun market is full of chewed up hacked guns because guys don’t have the right tools.

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Oh my.. yep, memories of my old Carreer Infinity just revived...lol that thing was a mess. I did get it shooting straight however. One of my first attempts at airgun smithing.

Vetmx said:

Don’t forget the right and quality tools. The used airgun market is full of chewed up hacked guns because guys don’t have the right tools.

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One of those guys might be me.

Needing super specialized tools to remove screws from a Gamo Urban so I can change o'rings.
That Gamo Urban was on classifieds as of one hour ago.
No more Gamo or BSA for me.
Sorry, but if Gamo or BSA decides to make screws that hard to remove I will not buy anything ever from them.

Just disclose that you hacked it up, show pictures and there shouldn’t be a problem.

Degassing is half the battle. I drop this grub screw in the power adjuster to do my Mutant.

airgunmike56 said:

Information is good to have in front of you before you even start, Lots of little thinks you dont know and when you find out its to late, Like the little ball on the grip on a XXX, If you dont know its there its gone, You don't even know you lost it until the grip will not go back together. To just blindly start taking something apart is asking for trouble for me,,
Mike

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This! There are enough differences between brands that if you don't know what to expect going into a disassembly, you could be in for a nasty surprise that don't even know hit you - small springs that fly out that you never knew existed and the like . . . .

YouTube videos have helped me a lot over the years. I learn much more efficiently when seeing a hands on demonstration/explanation. Surprising just how many airgun maintenance/repair vids there are.

I work on all of mine (357 Slayer, Impact and Marauders). Once the air is out, they are just screws, parts and pieces. Take your time and learn your guns. It's very rewarding.

Certain things go hand in hand with all PCP’s, and as your experience gets better you start remembering to check these and it all makes sense, like-
1. Air passages/transfer ports must align
2. Check valves will always have a spring
3. Ball detent adjustment knobs/dials involve a ball and spring
4. Beware of stacking of pieces, in other words if a screw to remove a part isn’t visible like you think it should be, it’s there, you just need to remove other pieces to find it underneath
5. Measure everything for reference points before disassembly
6. Have all replacement parts and consumables on hand before starting
7. Most anything that goes in only one way will have some form of index tab
8. Pieces of leather, rubber matting, masking tape, electrical tape all these things can help to keep you from marring up parts with tools- take a moment to protect anodized parts
9. You’ll be surprised at what a socket set can help with besides its job of removing fasteners- for sanding off round hard to access parts you can tape sandpaper to a socket(like the inside of a round hammer, in polishing)
10. A silver sharpie on black anodizing is a great tool in labeling parts as you remove them, and which direction they go back in

Vetmx said:

Don’t forget the right and quality tools. The used airgun market is full of chewed up hacked guns because guys don’t have the right tools.

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Or the guys that owned them were complete IDIOTS and didn't read the D*mn instructions, like "DO NOT FIRE THE GUN with the cocking hammer back, it will destroy the gun". Hint, it will destroy the hammer and crack/break the internal aluminum. Extra bonus hint, don't do it over and over and over, did I mention COMPLETE IDIOT?

AlanMcD said:

This! There are enough differences between brands that if you don't know what to expect going into a disassembly, you could be in for a nasty surprise that don't even know hit you - small springs that fly out that you never knew existed and the like . . . .

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My Sumatra was just that sort of PCP. Mainly in getting the barrel aligned with the transfer port.

airgunmike56 said:

Thanks guys , But back to square one , If I do not have a video a book or something showing me how to repair , I am not going in blind and taking things apart, I know my limits ,
I maybe asking for help on the Cricket , I am going over a few videos now,,,
Mike

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Does your cricket have a safety? I just ordered some tube o rings didn’t have any 24x3mm. Did have some lelya 2.0 25x3mm that seem to be working at this time.