Western Airguns First fill , sidewinder, compressor

[Kcmusa]

Don’t have my sidewinder yet. Reading inst and says. First fill must be from a HPA tank, small compressor can’t be used. Why?
guess I need a tank.
can the sidewinder tank be removed to be filled?

 

[Bngen3]

Buy the gun from somewhere that does a fill and test on gun before they send it to you. Some guns require a tank to fill from 0 to set the seals as it will with need a blast of air quickly as a compressor is a slow fill.

 

[AGFAN]

I could be very wrong but, a lot of times the valve is open on an empty tank and it requires a lot of pressure to close it or the air your filling with just exits the barrel. HPA tanks fill faster and at higher pressure than a compressor. This happened on my Benjamin Bulldog when it was new and the tank was empty.

 

[Airgun-hobbyist]

If ypu are getting any semi auto or a big bore I'd suggest initially investing in a large air tank for storage and use. A 98 cubic foot or bigger would be best. The semi autos and big.bore airguns are both air hogs. Because of this you'll be filling them a lot. Using a small compressor to fill small tanks tend to produce a lot of residual water condensation in the hoses and in cylinder because of the short run cycles. Use the compressor to fill the big tank and fill the gun from there, multiple times. You'll have more fun this way too, just filling and shooting.

 

[WorriedMan]

Valve AGFAN referred to. Air pressure keeps plastic section sealed until hammer strikes metal rod to release air. No air pressure can leave metal rod hung up so plastic section won't seal, air flows out barrel. Blast from air tank will force force valve closed, slow moving air from compressor likely won't. Uragan .25 was like this, bumped butt of stock on large book while filling with Yong Heng, heard click, started filling. WM

 

[CharlieF]

Just received mine from AoA. It was already filled.

 

[gendoc]

this is what i built and use just for that initial blast of air without using my larger tanks....
small black bottle in the top left. can easily be filled with any of my compressors to
3000psi

 

[AGFAN]

View attachment 528206 this is what i built and use just for that initial blast of air without using my larger tanks....
small black bottle in the top left. can easily be filled with any of my compressors to
3000psi

Glad to see I'm not the only one with a compressor and bottle collection

 

[gendoc]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with a compressor and bottle collection

i hear ya !! i gotta few others not pictured, just in case.....

 

[AGFAN]

When my Benjamin Discovery wouldn't fill from 0 and using the compressor just caused air to leak out the barrel I followed the advice in this AGN thread to resolve the problem without a HPA tank. https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/fill-from-empty-help.90838/

 

[cmatera]

How do you cock a semi auto?