Basic Airgun Maintenance Parts List

I have a toolbox just for my airguns. A wheeler kit, and torque wrench. I add tools when I buy a new rifle. Since almost every rifle is unique, you kind of have to do that. Having a vice with rubber pads is critical. I have a tool used for pulling golf club heads from shafts that I’ve used when polishing barrels. With a little painters tape it allows me to put the barrel in the vice and block the end of im doing a mop polish.

These have been a great addition for my PCP needs.
Scuba Choice Scuba Diving Brass O-Ring Pick Set (3-Piece) https://a.co/d/eMuttda

silicone oil and grease... Or Superlube

Great thread, I use allen wrenches quite a bit working on my AG's . I have a mismatch of allen wrenches and could use some guidence in obtaining a quality set. Right now I have a set in my Amazon basket:

Is there a better set of allen wrenches to acuquire?

Str8tshooter said:

Great thread, I use allen wrenches quite a bit working on my AG's . I have a mismatch of allen wrenches and could use some guidence in obtaining a quality set. Right now I have a set in my Amazon basket:

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Is there a better set of allen wrenches to acuquire?

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I’ve purchased individually, but I’ve been happy with them

EKLIND 55168 Cushion Grip Hex T-Key allen wrench - 8pc set Metric MM sizes 2-10 (6In shaft) https://a.co/d/cclDNDI

I use this one a lot

Klein Tools JTH6M25 2.5 mm Hex Key, Journeyman T-Handle, 6-Inch https://a.co/d/3NiAi4b

Set
Klein Tools JTH68MB Hex Kit Set, Metric Ball End T-Handle Hex Key Allen Wrench Set with 6-Inch Blades, Stand Included, 8-Piece https://a.co/d/cwwX8Dr

Patience. If you don’t have this stop and hire the work done.

Owners manual for your gun. Proper lubricants, cleaning methods and sometimes parts diagrams found here. Maybe even trouble shooting guidance.

Smart Phone –

• Camera!
• Stored digital manuals and other references
• Internet resources

A suitable work space.

Work surface soft cover, protects both airgun and surface from damage. Working over an old bath towel or similar material stops dropped fasteners and parts from rolling away and disappearing into the unknown.

Good lighting overall and adjustable lighting close up. The older the eyes the more light needed.

Bore light or small pen light for illuminating bore or tight spaces.

Magnifier, hands-free, for those of us with aging eyes.

Drivers –

• Phillips screwdriver, #1 & #2.
• Slotted head screwdrivers, various widths and blade thickness, all hollow ground. Inexpensive multiple bit screwdrivers often have hollow ground bits.
• Torx drivers, #10 and #15 to start.
• Micro screwdriver set.

Hex (Allen) wrench sets, both SAE and metric (1.5mm - 10mm).

Lubricants and cleaners, only as recommended by your owners manual(s) regardless of recommendations provided online, touted in ads/catalogs or accepted as conventional wisdom.

Means for parts sorting – coin envelopes, ziplock bags, egg carton, empty pellet tins, etc. Pen or marker and tape for labeling.

Non-marring hammer – brass or weighted nylon, 4 oz or 8 oz.

Pin punches, straight and roll pin. Don’t skimp here, buy pro gunsmith quality. Cheap ones bend or break especially in the narrower sizes. Use short shaft punches for stubborn pins.

Small brushes, toothbrushes, q-tips, toothpicks, cotton rags (old t-shirts) for cleaning.

Dental picks for seal removal.

A Collection of Potentially Useful Things. Everyone needs an accumulation of odd bits and pieces (junk), useful for fabricating special tools, jigs, replacement parts, or finding substitutes for missing fasteners, etc.

Gun bluing fluid such as Birchwood Casey Super Blue.

Notepad and pencil for assembly notes, purchase lists, sketches, measurements, records, etc.

Specialty/single use tools I try to make.

Sources for tools – yard sales, estate sales, surplus store, local hardware store, Amazon in pretty much that order.

These are great Christmas presents.

sjs said:

Thanks guys, helpful info there. But, nobody mentioned specific parts that are likely to need replacement. I guess seals would be one kind. Any other parts that are routinely in need of replacement?

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On my pcp rifles, I like to keep an oring set for each one if available. Captain Oring is a great place to source these for all the major brands of guns.

cosmic said:

silicone oil and grease... Or Superlube

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I always use Ballistol for cleaning and lubrication. In fact. I don't use my WD-40 for anything anymore. If a silicone lubricant is needed, I use "Air Tool Pneumatic Lubricant ISO 68." I bought both from Amazon. However any airgun store or website sell both. However, they tend to be a little more expensive from Airgun websites.

Not gonna go over tools as everyone else input towards tools covered it, but as far as parts for you gun/guns, I try to keep spares of the types of parts that are likely to break, get worn easily enough, and can be easily lost.
Things that break- trigger sears, magazine index arms, pellet probes
Things worn easily- o rings that are used repetitively like pellet probe o rings, quick disconnect o rings, dowty seals, regulator adjustment screws and reg pistons
Easily lost- trigger springs stainless index balls, rubber balls, trigger assembly springs, tiny plastic spacers, etc.

Not even going to discuss o rings as that’s a given, and should be the first thing you buy once you’ve ordered and bought a gun. Either download the parts diagram, or buy a kit and pull all measurements off of the kit and order more.

And here’s a tip- if you seriously plan on doing all your own service to all your guns, after 2-3 times of disassembly of a gun you start to realize which fasteners are the ones that are removed the most to gain access to critical areas, identify those fasteners and change those out to torx drive instead of allen.

When people sell their guns on the classifieds, I always zoom in on the fastener heads. The allen sockets will tell me how much work has been done to the gun, along with areas where a Allen wrench would rub against the guns anodizing, like the oval slot on an Mk1/MK2 hammer adjustment spring area

parts
well, that is a hard question
if i owned one of something probably none if it was old i would look for anything to go with it when the gun is sold
i have couple of Crosman SSP250's and i have extra barrels and cover and this and that all worth money
i have too many Diana model 5-6 so i have many extra parts to rebuild the next one but hard parts few
if you can find parts easily no need if not find them and add to the gun
parts are just like money, maybe you spend today but the parts will hold there value or even go you
at some point if you play this game long enough you might be the only one in the world to have a had to get part
and i have a habit if you need 1 buy 3
all that is new will be old
if you have a like buy and parts gun
the parts and what to get is an unanswerable question

A few other things I’d like to mention for the tools and supplies part of your question-

I love my borescope, it’s a teslong. I plug it in a USB port on my laptop and I can feed it through a barrel or into a breech, or look inside an air tank. I have the flexible one and also a set of mirrors so I can see 90 degrees from the camera (aka side of the bore/etc).

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I have a wheeler torque screwdriver, good for installation optics so you don’t clamp down to hard.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1007367010

Also I have frog lube solvent, and lubricant/protectant. Nice having products I can use inside and get on my hands without needing to worry about fumes, or stinkin up the place. Also there’s a test that was performed where someone took ~40 rust inhibitors and put them on equal size pieces of metal and left them outdoors and took photos of each one as time passed to check corrosion. He also tested friction and published the results, frog line came out on top. I’ll find it and link it here in a bit.

I cut a thick piece of leather and attached it on one size so I have something that would be completely non-marring.


I also have a Tipton gun vise I absolutely love https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1022492166

And for cleaning 2 different Dewey’s rods with a bunch of different attachments and adapter. Go with the nylon coated rods. These ones have bearings inside the handles so they’ll follow the rifling in the barrel
https://deweyrods.com/

sjs said:

Thanks guys, helpful info there. But, nobody mentioned specific parts that are likely to need replacement. I guess seals would be one kind. Any other parts that are routinely in need of replacement?

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I advice you to prepare for the orings... Find a thread and someone post the orings size for my m3.. And now i have all the orings to reseal my m3 with cheap price.. For the tools and lubricant is a must.. Don't use silicone oil or silicone grease for the thread.. Use it only for oring..
And also watch YouTube about your airgun.. Many information you can get from YouTube..