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Hope all goes well
Down to the shoot to help out this morning for a couple of hours then home into the shed to strip down the Mercury and give it a general clean
Stripped the standard thick varnish stuff off the Beech stock and oiled it, that will take a few more coats over the next few days to be good
Re-blued parts of the barrel and painted the trigger guard, modified the trigger for a cleaner break while I was there, removed all the seals then polished the piston tube and piston head, sorted out the barrel axis pin eventually (someone had bodged it)
Next I came in and searched for all the parts 90% of which are now on order for collection tomorrow, just waiting on an answer from a bloke who makes bespoke internals bits to see if he can knock me up a tophat and spring guide from Delrin at reasonable cost
All of this should make it one of the smoothest operating and quietest shooting BSA Mercury's ever, I am not looking for more power above the 9 or so ft/lb it originally would have had (and must have lost considering the state of the internals) just smooth quiet accuracy
Stripped the standard thick varnish stuff off the Beech stock and oiled it, that will take a few more coats over the next few days to be good
Re-blued parts of the barrel and painted the trigger guard, modified the trigger for a cleaner break while I was there, removed all the seals then polished the piston tube and piston head, sorted out the barrel axis pin eventually (someone had bodged it)
Next I came in and searched for all the parts 90% of which are now on order for collection tomorrow, just waiting on an answer from a bloke who makes bespoke internals bits to see if he can knock me up a tophat and spring guide from Delrin at reasonable cost
All of this should make it one of the smoothest operating and quietest shooting BSA Mercury's ever, I am not looking for more power above the 9 or so ft/lb it originally would have had (and must have lost considering the state of the internals) just smooth quiet accuracy
Well? Does she have big tits or what?
Slept for four hours and twenty two minutes.
Add that to the circa three and a half hours from last night and that is a staggering near eight hours unbroken sleep,for me. Wonders never cease.
Getting ready for golf now, seven AM on the first tee, feeling confident after some really good stuff (by my standards
) in the last couple of weeks.
Add that to the circa three and a half hours from last night and that is a staggering near eight hours unbroken sleep,for me. Wonders never cease.
Getting ready for golf now, seven AM on the first tee, feeling confident after some really good stuff (by my standards
) in the last couple of weeks.
just waiting on an answer from a bloke who makes bespoke internals bits to see if he can knock me up a tophat and spring guide from Delrin at reasonable cost
Have you heard of Precision Rifle Systems?
No I have not, where are they based ?
I've just looked them up, it appears they're next door to me!
Same area where the garage that services our cars is.
Down to the shoot to help out this morning for a couple of hours then home into the shed to strip down the Mercury and give it a general clean
Stripped the standard thick varnish stuff off the Beech stock and oiled it, that will take a few more coats over the next few days to be good
Re-blued parts of the barrel and painted the trigger guard, modified the trigger for a cleaner break while I was there, removed all the seals then polished the piston tube and piston head, sorted out the barrel axis pin eventually (someone had bodged it)
Next I came in and searched for all the parts 90% of which are now on order for collection tomorrow, just waiting on an answer from a bloke who makes bespoke internals bits to see if he can knock me up a tophat and spring guide from Delrin at reasonable cost
All of this should make it one of the smoothest operating and quietest shooting BSA Mercury's ever, I am not looking for more power above the 9 or so ft/lb it originally would have had (and must have lost considering the state of the internals) just smooth quiet accuracy
Well that didn't go quite as planned
A quick trip to an engineering mate netted me a tophat and spring guide to the exact sixes of the commercially available ones from Delrin at the grand price of "nah dont worry about it"
A measure up using all available info from the "specialists" then cutting and collapsing the spring + loads of swearing/sweating and making a Heath Robinson spring compressor got it together and measured up (5 times) only to find it felt spring bound and wouldn't cock fully
Coffee smoke and a good think made me look again at the spring guide and sure enough it was touching up on the tophat preventing full movement (this is despite it being exactly the same as sold as being a drop in mod for this rifle)
Hmmm more thinking and i remembered a mate has an airsporter stripped at the moment, a call and a chat revealed these guides are sold as for both the Airsporter and the Mercury despite the stroke lenghts being around 10 12 mm different
stripped it for the 6th time and lopped an educated guess of 11mm off the guide then grunted sweated and strained to get the git back together again with the result if cocks and fires really well
Problems are .... although the action is smooth and quiet when cocking (unlike standard) it goes off with a bit of a crack and a slight thump, I will guess its close to or even over the legal limit
Not what I was looking for to be honest so there is some more refining to do, my thoughts on this are the action is now much smoother and quicker with a slightly stonger new spring + its got all new seals so not blowing out of every orifice like when I started hence the increased noise and the thump
Going to go and stick it over the chrono at the shoot in the morning just to see where I am at (and for a laugh) then I guess it will be strip number 7
Not totally unexpected really and I know i am close as it cocks as standard and the trigger works as it should which they normally dont on these old bsa's if you stick a big silly spring in them, educated guess is collapsing another coil will bring it to where i want it to be ....... err maybe !
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In Winsford.
Mmmmmm. What I did today.
My new colleague is as much use as
tits on a fish, pissed me off whinging
about a smallish simple job that the
gaffer asked him to do.
He left at 4pm, I finish at 5pm.
So......I went to see what all the fuss
was about where he was working.
He left two washed paint brushes in the sink propped up against the tap, so I was busting for a slash & pissed on them both, whilst giggling like a demented loon pot.
I wonder if he will notice anything in the morning?
My new colleague is as much use as
tits on a fish, pissed me off whinging
about a smallish simple job that the
gaffer asked him to do.
He left at 4pm, I finish at 5pm.
So......I went to see what all the fuss
was about where he was working.
He left two washed paint brushes in the sink propped up against the tap, so I was busting for a slash & pissed on them both, whilst giggling like a demented loon pot.
I wonder if he will notice anything in the morning?
Went to town to get out and also pick up some ink cartridges.
I bought the newspaper and decided I'd have read it over lunch in the pub and shur to hell I'll have a pint with it. I wasn't sure of the quality of the pint so I had to have another.
I had an aimless wander about and got the bus home.
Walking up the road I remembered the cartridges I didn't get.
Might have to do the same tomorrow
I bought the newspaper and decided I'd have read it over lunch in the pub and shur to hell I'll have a pint with it. I wasn't sure of the quality of the pint so I had to have another.
I had an aimless wander about and got the bus home.
Walking up the road I remembered the cartridges I didn't get.
Might have to do the same tomorrow
Thank you for providing the answer to your question about (paraphrased) ‘what is the only sport that is more boring than fishing’ in the other thread.Well that didn't go quite as planned
A quick trip to an engineering mate netted me a tophat and spring guide to the exact sixes of the commercially available ones from Delrin at the grand price of "nah dont worry about it"
A measure up using all available info from the "specialists" then cutting and collapsing the spring + loads of swearing/sweating and making a Heath Robinson spring compressor got it together and measured up (5 times) only to find it felt spring bound and wouldn't cock fully
Coffee smoke and a good think made me look again at the spring guide and sure enough it was touching up on the tophat preventing full movement (this is despite it being exactly the same as sold as being a drop in mod for this rifle)
Hmmm more thinking and i remembered a mate has an airsporter stripped at the moment, a call and a chat revealed these guides are sold as for both the Airsporter and the Mercury despite the stroke lenghts being around 10 12 mm different
stripped it for the 6th time and lopped an educated guess of 11mm off the guide then grunted sweated and strained to get the git back together again with the result if cocks and fires really well
Problems are .... although the action is smooth and quiet when cocking (unlike standard) it goes off with a bit of a crack and a slight thump, I will guess its close to or even over the legal limit
Not what I was looking for to be honest so there is some more refining to do, my thoughts on this are the action is now much smoother and quicker with a slightly stonger new spring + its got all new seals so not blowing out of every orifice like when I started hence the increased noise and the thump
Going to go and stick it over the chrono at the shoot in the morning just to see where I am at (and for a laugh) then I guess it will be strip number 7
Not totally unexpected really and I know i am close as it cocks as standard and the trigger works as it should which they normally dont on these old bsa's if you stick a big silly spring in them, educated guess is collapsing another coil will bring it to where i want it to be ....... err maybe !
You call fishing boring (obviously never tried it) yet you rave about walking about hitting a little ball into holes with a stickThank you for providing the answer to your question about (paraphrased) ‘what is the only sport that is more boring than fishing’ in the other thread.
It wasn’t me that called fishing boring.
Fact.
Golf is much more than ‘hitting a little ball into holes with a stick’. Around 80% of the time the hole is not involved.
When I was a kid I used to fish a lot on the lochside, mainly beachcasting for trout. The Shakespeare, Abu and Daiwa catalogues were the nearest thing to fishing porn mags.
I've not had any interest in fishing since then, but I keep getting nagged by a mate to take up fly fishing. I'm tempted, but decent fly fishing costs stupid money.
He says it's his escape from the shit of everyday life. I point to the bike and say, that's mine.
I've not had any interest in fishing since then, but I keep getting nagged by a mate to take up fly fishing. I'm tempted, but decent fly fishing costs stupid money.
He says it's his escape from the shit of everyday life. I point to the bike and say, that's mine.
Finally decided to get up at 10:42am.
Had a nice long shower.
Back Laying on the bed cooling down now.
Had a nice long shower.
Back Laying on the bed cooling down now.
Get yourself a new clock, you posted this at 10.23am or are you time travelling?