TX200 #3
My friend in Kansas bought a TX200 in 2013 and recently (two years ago) he broke the cocking shoe.
He couldn’t get the replacement to go in.
His wife died two months ago so he sent me the rifle (in parts).
I had it together in about two minutes.
Two weeks ago it stopped working. It would not cock at all.
I was received many suggestions from local tuners.
The last (and correct one) came from the great and powerful (no, not OZ), Motörhead.
He told me to unscrew the piston stem a full turn and try it.
Of course another tuner told me to make it flush with the seal end of the piston and loc-tite it in.
“Red or blue?”
“Doesn’t matter.”
This morning I had to use vice grips on the stem and a pipe wrench on the piston to break the loc-tite (red) loose.
I didn’t monitor how many rotations I made but it looks like about 2-3 threads.
I put everything back together (for the 15-20th time) and tried it out.
Whoopee!!!
My friend in Kansas gave me the rifle (with a walnut stock which I moved to another rifle while working on this one) and I know he had had it for 12 years, so I purchased another AA Factory (FAC) rebuild kit for it.
(I have the same kit in my 11 year old TX (TX#1) which has seen 60,000 pellets down the barrel.)
So after breakfast I put a 2-7X Hawke Vantage (The only one I have and not using) on the rifle, sighted it in and touched off about 100+ of 4.52mm 8.64 H&N FTT pellets.
(I do not know if the Vantage is springer rated.)
The speed is a bit slow but should improve to around 13-14fpe after the spring breaks in like TX#1.
It is tangy and re-fines that word and is in dire need of a DELRIN spring follower and top hat.
I will put a few more coats of BLO on the beech stock that is n the rifle now and shoot it Sunday at offhand silly wet.
