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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:41 pm |
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| Slavia |
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This Crosman 2240 was my first tuning project, done many years ago. At that time I smoothed off the casting/forgeing marks on the grip frame and barrel band, and then left them brite until I figured out what I wanted to do. Yesterday I finally got sick of looking at the dull gray zinc, so I painted it.
The gun cost $25.00 US in 2002, on closeout at a K-Mart that was moving. What started as a simple trigger job got out of hand. I made the grips, the sights, the brake, and the trigger mods. I polished the bore with a tripoli/oil paste, and polished all the internals. At that time I didn't know how to crown the muzzle, so I did that today. It still has the plastic breech because at that time I didn't know there were alternatives, and because now I'm too cheap.
Yesterday I degreased first with brake cleaner, and then with foaming engine cleaner. I primed with a self-etching primer, and painted with grill/barbeque paint. Then I baked it in my wife's toaster oven.
And I got the toaster oven back in the basement before she got home.
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:49 am |
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| broommaster2000 |
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Not bad!  |
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:39 pm |
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| Slavia |
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A five-shot group with RWS Meisterkugeln 14 grain at 10 meters, from a rest. Not too bad for a $25.00 gun.
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:58 pm |
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Aye to that.  |
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