OldOwl
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66 POWERMASTER by CROSSMAN
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This gun is unsurpassed in VALUE. I bought one about, oh, maybe eight years ago, and just had my first problem with it. And I've run over a thousand rounds through it and never cleaned the barrel.
All of a sudden it wasn't pumping up to full pressure. You can give it up to 10 pumps depending on how much you want to devastate your target. I use two for a warning shot to the ass a few times to run off squirrels destroying stuff. Third shot, 10 pumps and a head shot. Done deal.
Anyway, all of a sudden it's not pumping at ALL, and every squirrel for a mile shows up at my bird feeders. And it's like they KNOW the gun is down! They usually FLY away at the first sound of a window lock moving. Now they just sit there and laugh if I go out and try to scare them off. Broke a $9.00 arrow on one I got so aggravated.
So I go to Wallmart where I bought it, and they are useless. No parts no service. I go to the gun shop. The owner says "You need "special" tools for them, no gun smith will touch one." So this morning it's squirrel city in my yard. Oh, by the way, there are FOUR or five .177 pellets stuck in the barrel now. So I break off and straighten a coat hanger and ram rod out the pellets, from the muzzle end back.
I see that there's supposed to be a rubber plunger on the end of the pump mechanism and it's missing. So I fire up the HOT GLUE and put a dab on the end of the metal pump mechanism, and close it, then tip the rifle muzzle down and let it cool for a few minutes. Craxk open the fore end as if to pump it up, and there's the rubber I wanted to retrieve!
On the other end of the lever (fore end) is a pin which I knock out with a center punch (nail set) and then there's one standard screw holding the whole mess on to the bottom of the barrel.
I use my .12 Ga cleaning pad to scrub the tube where the pump rod goes and spray it with light Remington oil. Removed the rubber plunger, cleaned the hot glue off and wipe it all down and firmly press it back into the part which holds it, and lightly lube it with gun oil.
Put it all back together, and this baby is good as NEW! I came SO close to dumping it in the trash and buying a new one, but heck, I figure I SAVED $50 an hour which is as good as MAKING $50 an hour.
Hasn't been ONE darn squirrel in sight since I fixed it.
leasantry:
The moral of the story is, I guess you're supposed to keep that plunger LUBED! I was always taught oil destroys rubber. Maybe a good wet silicone spray once a month will do the trick from now on.
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This gun is unsurpassed in VALUE. I bought one about, oh, maybe eight years ago, and just had my first problem with it. And I've run over a thousand rounds through it and never cleaned the barrel.
All of a sudden it wasn't pumping up to full pressure. You can give it up to 10 pumps depending on how much you want to devastate your target. I use two for a warning shot to the ass a few times to run off squirrels destroying stuff. Third shot, 10 pumps and a head shot. Done deal.
Anyway, all of a sudden it's not pumping at ALL, and every squirrel for a mile shows up at my bird feeders. And it's like they KNOW the gun is down! They usually FLY away at the first sound of a window lock moving. Now they just sit there and laugh if I go out and try to scare them off. Broke a $9.00 arrow on one I got so aggravated.
So I go to Wallmart where I bought it, and they are useless. No parts no service. I go to the gun shop. The owner says "You need "special" tools for them, no gun smith will touch one." So this morning it's squirrel city in my yard. Oh, by the way, there are FOUR or five .177 pellets stuck in the barrel now. So I break off and straighten a coat hanger and ram rod out the pellets, from the muzzle end back.
I see that there's supposed to be a rubber plunger on the end of the pump mechanism and it's missing. So I fire up the HOT GLUE and put a dab on the end of the metal pump mechanism, and close it, then tip the rifle muzzle down and let it cool for a few minutes. Craxk open the fore end as if to pump it up, and there's the rubber I wanted to retrieve!
On the other end of the lever (fore end) is a pin which I knock out with a center punch (nail set) and then there's one standard screw holding the whole mess on to the bottom of the barrel.
I use my .12 Ga cleaning pad to scrub the tube where the pump rod goes and spray it with light Remington oil. Removed the rubber plunger, cleaned the hot glue off and wipe it all down and firmly press it back into the part which holds it, and lightly lube it with gun oil.
Put it all back together, and this baby is good as NEW! I came SO close to dumping it in the trash and buying a new one, but heck, I figure I SAVED $50 an hour which is as good as MAKING $50 an hour.
Hasn't been ONE darn squirrel in sight since I fixed it.
leasantry:The moral of the story is, I guess you're supposed to keep that plunger LUBED! I was always taught oil destroys rubber. Maybe a good wet silicone spray once a month will do the trick from now on.
