I received this old jewel via USPS today

[Wayne52 †]

I've been pondering on doing a bluing job on this gun since soon after I bought it, in the past it had been polished by the looks of it which really left it exposed to rust by the looks of it when I bought it on ebay.

                                                 

I think it was maybe five or six days ago I went ahead and did a half way oil blue on it with a propane torch.  I had seen on youtube how people have done their guns this way with decent results but I admit I did cut a lot of corners when doing this one but it looks a heck of a lot better than it did . . . not quite so ratty looking. This old gun has seen a lot of wear but it's a good shooter today with the best power out of all 4 that I have. I'm going to try getting red squirrels this coming summer with one of these guns, this one here is doing about 8fpe with my cast pellets

                                                 

[mudduck48]

WOW! That turned out really nice.

[ped]

that's come out real well
I find the virgin ptfe a bit floppy to machine if you want to try the carbon ptfe i'll be sending some parts to a mate your side of the pond so can add a bit and I'm sure he'd forward on to you

[BillK]

Looking Good!

[Wayne52 †]

Thanks for the great replies everyone !!!

Here's a target shooting video of my latest purchase from Ebay, it's a nice one too, I bought for $79.95 buy it now, before I got the gun I was thinking maybe the valve needed replacing but the threads in it were still good, someone had assembled it with the wrong screws in the wrong place.  I put new o rings in it and used secret sauce on the valve poppet for 2 days prior to getting the gun.  It's a fantastic shooter too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bfeaAC34I

[ped]

nice
I made a couple of 180/400/150 stems these are a first try and I have since made a couple of qb78 stems (close to a 160 size) and have added a machined nut to stop the stem from being pushed into the ptfe

[Wayne52 †]

Looks like you did a fantastic job on them for sure.  I'll probably try making inserts for the brass piece with the virgin PTFE I've got coming, it's scheduled to be here Saturday.  I see what looks like clear inserts in one of those photos you posted there.

Here's a picture that I took and I included a stamp that's in this most recent 150, wondering if anyone has seen this before and is there any significance to it.

[ped]

I make replacement stem seals for the qb78 and some are new stem seals and some are tp's
I did make a few from the same carbon ptfe to as a tester to see if it's viable for self fitment
as to the stamping I have no idea could be a service station marking

[Wayne52 †]

I don't know what happened to the pic I had in here so I'll put another one in it's place

[BillK]

Must be time for Photo Buckets hostage pic pay.  What a bit--ch.

[Wayne52 †]

I haven't used photobucket for a couple of years now, I've been using Flickr myself.  I did win another bid on ebay for a nice Ted Williams 126. 1909 (Crosman 150) that will be here next week sometime.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Wayne that is one awesome pistol!

[ped]

great result on the Ted Williams something that is very rare in the UK,just getting a late 150 is hard work
I made a rib for mine in ally and if it gets warmer today I'm hoping to anodise it
this was a test one I made for a crosman

[Peashooterjoe]

Nice, love reviving old airguns that are shootable. peashooterjoe

[Wayne52 †]

Here's a video I uploaded to youtube this morning, it's got picture animations at the beginning as well as a couple other animations that I made with Blender. I left Alvin in charge of the targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjnjY7KEl4k&t=72s