The blobs are far less noticeable now though. Does anyone have contact info for local repair guy Rifle won't make pressure and possible pellets stuck in barrel. The original finish is pretty tough so I didn't expose the brass (much).Ī poor picture, I'll take some others when I'm done with the rifle. I've got a old Benjamin Franklin air rifle that need some TLC. I used a graver, riffler files and a scraper to gently scrap the excess solder. Remember what I said about fluxing? The areas on the tube that had flux on them ended up having solder flow.but again you can see an unbroken solder line where the barrel and tube join. I may get a non-contact thermometer if I do this again so I can better gauge the temperatures. Benjamin is the only firm that has been consistently manufacturing compressed air guns throughout the 20th century, and the only firm aside from Daisy to survive from the period over a century ago when air rifles first began to find acceptance as firearm training aids.
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Here you can see that it did blob up a bit but it also shows a nice shiny line along the join. The Benjamin Air Rifle Company is the worlds second-largest manufacturer of high-powered compressed air and CO2 pellet guns. I carefully heated the barrel and tube for just a few moments with a torch and touched the solder to the join on both sides. Next time (Oh, how I hope there isn't a next time) I will be even more careful about fluxing. That front sight is soldered to the barrel and could become desoldered easily. A kant-twist clamp holds the barrel to the tube. If the towel starts steaming I would be getting it way too hot. A moist towel around the tube, with it clamped in a vise. I used some sandpaper to clean the join area on the tube as far back as I could go.Īnd lightly holding the barrel against the paper sanded the other surface. It's separated by about 4" from the front. F so I could in theory would not need to heat the gun up too much. I have a Benjamin Franklin Model 317 air rifle 1958 give or take a year will this. It has a very low melting point of 275 deg. Benjamin & Sheridan Repair Kit, Fits Some Post-1995 Multi-Pumps. I bought some " Tix" solder from Brownells. The last part of my puzzle had to do with getting over my fear of desoldering the rest of the gun. At least soldering gave Dunlap some fits: "I either spoil the bluing and get a good soldering job or am so careful about the finish I get a lousy sweat joint." ( Gunsmithing by Roy Dunlap) So I read what I could and felt much more confident. I decided to peruse some gunsmithing books and read everything I could on resoldering shotgun ribs, which is an analogous problem.
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In any case, I had some data about what not to do, but still felt that I didn't have enough of a plan. This is entirely down to poor preparation. Here you can see that there are some large solder blobs (the gun was pretty chewed up and I think had already be resoldered partially so at least the front sight isn't my fault), and that I've had to buff the metal down to the bare brass.Īfter cleanup it wasn't so bad, but you can see gaps in the solder line. Oh, o k, here are two pictures of the loaner rifle. It'll look ok if he polishes it up though. I'm not even going to post pictures of the results, it was that humiliating. The front section of the barrel was resoldered, but I ended up globbing a large amount of solder on and the finish was completely ruined. A kind gentleman sent me one, and I did a marginal job. So I asked around on the forums to see if anyone had a beater gun that I could practice on, with the understanding that I would probably ruin it. The main complaint was that it lacked power (more on that in another post) but there was also the issue of the front section of the barrel being loose.īeing a paranoid sort of guy, I reasoned that if I tried to fix his barrel without any experience I would end up destroying the gun. 177 brass and need some one to help me? need to be rebuilt and can't find any information on it!plase e-mail thank you.Ĭreate an account or login in order to post a comment.An old friend of mine asked whether I could fix his Benjamin air rifle, "bought with my own money", new, when he was 12. Jeffrey : I have a Crosman pump pellet rifle that I purchased in 1949,in great shape.A few years ago took it in to a local shop to get the front sight replaced.The owner checked it all out for me and of coarse wanted to buy it.I am getting too old to put more than a couple pumps into it so will pass it along to one of the grandchildren.I enjoy just getting it out of the case and walk down memory lane.Thanks for posting the photo. When do you think it was made and how much might it be worth? If you could reply, I would appreciate it. You are a very lucky man, keep enjoying them, they are great.
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Great Item!Ĭool I have two of them, one my grade father gave to me for my 8th birthday, and the other one was his, his is much older than mine, the one he gave me was new in 72, his is probably from the 30s or 40s, But thay are cool little rifles, and are not toys. That is a cool unique bb gun, I do not recall ever seeing one quite like it.