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| Alstone |
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I have just serviced my TX re lubricated it new seal etc and put the out put up to 11.3flb, shot about 50 pellets through it using a crony, anyway I cocked it and was looking around for some more pellets and got distracted by something, anyway I closed the breach and fired. BANG! Bloody hell I nearly fell off the chair, I realised straight away that there was no pellet in the gun, so I loaded up again fired and the output was erratic and down to around 9flb.
There was a smell of burnt oil so I took it apart and every thing seemed ok, the seal and piston were like new although there was traces of oil in the compression cylinder, so I rebuilt it and the power was still down so I ordered a new spring and seals , I can’t think of any thing else that would cause the drop in power.
When the new spring and seals arrived I fitted them and gave it a try, the power was back where it was before the dry firing, as you can see in the photo the new spring is a bit longer than the old one, now whether this is because the old spring had done 30000 shots or because of the dry firing, or a combination of both I don’t know.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 4:47 am |
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| broommaster2000 |
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Weird... |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:53 am |
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| fritz |
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| That is weird, most guns can take a dry fire just fine. It's just something you shouldn't do on purpose. |
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