Dirty Devils - The Manky Piston Awards

[Plinky Dave]

We usually look at sexiest, prettiest, nicest, shinyest, bestest, expensivest, accuratest and most lovely rifles.

But what about some of the most manky overlubed nasty piston and springs we come across whilst “fettling”.

I’ll post a few to get you all going.

Mk1 HW77 - wet with oil inside.


HW80. - thick with moly.


HW35 ( courtesy of @BrettMRC). - old and dried up.


Early HW95. - enough for light dieseling.


All these were “second hand” rifles that I acquired and stripped.

Show us your worst

 

[Wing Commander]

Yuk..

 

[Pete2eyes]

I assume you just added more molly and reinserted them

 

[Plinky Dave]

I assume you just added more molly and reinserted them

Obviously
Didn’t even clean off the gunk

 

[foxtrott]

We usually look at sexiest, prettiest, nicest, shinyest, bestest, expensivest, accuratest and most lovely rifles.

But what about some of the most manky overlubed nasty piston and springs we come across whilst “fettling”.

I’ll post a few to get you all going.

Mk1 HW77 - wet with oil inside.
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HW80. - thick with moly.
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HW35 ( courtesy of @BrettMRC). - old and dried up.
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Early HW95. - enough for light dieseling.
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All these were “second hand” rifles that I acquired and stripped.

Show us your worst

You got a bargain there pal £50 worth of free grease

 

[Cannon Fodder]

Careful with those pictures, the Americans will be round to "liberate" your family if they see how much oil you've got there.

 

[Popgun Rob]

It's amazing how some people think they need so much lube, but to be fair, I'd rather have a gun that someone had lubed too much than not enough I guess.

 

[Backgardenplinker]

I may be in with a shout here an original model 50B piston!

 

[Backgardenplinker]

Heres the spring i took out

 

[Backgardenplinker]

ASI sniper was gunged up well. Think the grease made up the seal quite well!

Not so dirty but something wasnt right with that latch rod Someone went to the trouble of putting a TR rob ptfe seal and chambers tune kit in but was happy to rebuild like this. Original Mod 35

A disintegrating leather sealed Westlake B2

 

[Hollowpoint]

I had a hw spring covered with so much factory tractor grease that it filled the gaps between the coils. I wish I had have taken pictures now. Probably enough grease for another 10 guns in there piston seal was not far of the one in the first picture.

 

[Ian Cartmell]

All this talk of oil, lube and grease, makes Pornhub seem positively tame.

 

[BrettMRC]

This one was a pig:

 

[Plinky Dave]

This one was a pig:

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Looks like a rusty 22mm reduced cylinder piston head from a Tx or summat

Anything for scale

 

[Plinky Dave]

All this talk of oil, lube and grease, makes Pornhub seem positively tame.

And pistons, skirt and rods

 

[BrettMRC]

Looks like a rusty 22mm reduced cylinder piston head from a Tx or summat

Anything for scale

12" diameter, 18" long, not found the spring yet...

 

[Bighit]

There ws on a facbook group that was full of grease and No it was not an SFS tuned airgun .

It looked like the whole thing had been filled with a grease gun and the grease that came out when it was cocked was binned or saved for another rifle .

 

[norris]

12" diameter, 18" long, not found the spring yet...

What was that out of?

 

[theskipper]

So I am no expert in fact I know nothing really about this subject- but I'm just rebuilding my Dad's old BSA cadet major - so please help me if you can firstly the pic shows the new spring from Protek sticking out with new piston inserted - its too long and I need to cut it ????? I thought when I orderd the correct part no it would be the right length .. also any tips on lubricating this as I put it back together would be much appreciated...
cheers Steven

 

[BrettMRC]

What was that out of?

HW80... or possibly a marine diesel...