Daisy Daisy 25 Repair

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Have a Ark. Daisy 25 BB Gun that started not shooting BBs when I fired. Took shot tube out and emptied all the bbs. Ran a cleaning rod down the barrel and this vented steel rod popped out. I cannot see how this rod goes back up the shot tube as I believe it would block bbs from being fed. I am sure this rod vents the compressed air to the barrel. Also I saw a little retainer spring on the side of the bottom of the shot tube in one video but in another video the shot tube did not have one. Does anyone know how to get this steel rod back in the gun properly?

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JDR said:
Have a Ark. Daisy 25 BB Gun that started not shooting BBs when I fired. Took shot tube out and emptied all the bbs. Ran a cleaning rod down the barrel and this vented steel rod popped out. I cannot see how this rod goes back up the shot tube as I believe it would block bbs from being fed. I am sure this rod vents the compressed air to the barrel. Also I saw a little retainer spring on the side of the bottom of the shot tube in one video but in another video the shot tube did not have one. Does anyone know how to get this steel rod back in the gun properly?

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That is the air tube. It either broke off or became dislodged. The gun will need to be taken apart to fix it.

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That is a common problem with these guns. From the factory they were swaged to the piston assembly and once the break it's hard to get them back on. Disassembly of a 25 is very tricky, there is a lot of spring force, and the way they are built was obviously meant to be disposable. That said, it can be repaired I would suggest getting a replacement piston assembly. That's what I did on my Plymouth gun, all of the various era internal parts seem to be interchangeable.
 
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Tool is $30 and I have the mechanical skills of an ape. Also, new Daisy 25s and vintage ones are still relatively cheap. Cost me $160 to get a Daisy 111 resealed with new spring but had huge sentimental value to me. I tried to reseal and replace parts on a Crossman 760. $60 spent and it still leaked. Another $140 spent for someone to fix it right, Going to sell this 25 cheap for parts. However going to wait patiently and not going to buy a 25 unless it is chronographed or recently resealed. The shot tube does not look broken so was dislodged as a poster stated. Hopefully will be useful to someone and not end up in a landfill. I think I may hold off on vintage airguns and just spend money on repairing the ones I got.
 
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