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I do some airgun target shooting as one of my other many hobbies , I brought this as a winter/rainy day project it is a Westlake B2 spring powered airgun from the 1980's( I now have 3 of them) they are the Holga of airgun built to a very low standard in China. This make them an ideal project as you can rectify the manufacturing faults yourself and add your own improvements and they are cheap, Which at least for me makes the gun more interesting to shoot as I know I have put some real effort into getting it to shoot right. The first problem was the barrel was sloping downward as where it meets the main action of the gun ( the rectangular bit) had been cut just slightly oversize. I filed this down with a hand file and it is now correct and inline with the rest of the gun ( no photos taken of that bit !) As it's rainy day the project has been started which leads me on to the photos Mobile phone photos in a bit of a rush , I apologize from the poor quality of the photos.

Using a home made spring compressor ( needs modding) to strip the gun, the springs can be under some real tension !
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Gun stripped
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The piston has some rough edges and no lubrication the leather piston seal was also very dry.
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The piston polished up a little to remove the sharp edges.
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Between the spring and the inside of the piston there is normally a gap which when the gun is fired allows the spring to rattle against it cause a lot of ringing, this is cured by fitting a piston sleeve over the spring and inside the piston. que beer can. The can is cut to size so that it just fits around the spring with the two ends meeting, the serrated cuts are so it folds under the end of the spring which because of the spring tension it is then held in position.

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this wasn't the actual one so I made another rough one to show the point
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Leather piston soaking in olive oil until my bit of tube arrives the piston sleeve can be seen in position( more about the tube later)
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The transfer port on these guns which can be seen here is far to big especially for the .177 guns my intention is to reduce this by putting a piece of brass tube in with an outer diameter of 4mm ( the size of the port) and an inner of between 2 and 3mm depending what I get ,this cushions the piston slightly as it fires forward as the air cannot escape so fast from the main cylinder, it also have the affect of speeding the air up through the now smaller port or at least that's my take on it !
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Once the tube turns up it will have a lube with JCB grease ( don't ask) and be resembled. In the mean time I will shorted the wooden stock by about an inch ( I like a shorter gun) and the stock will also receive a coat of flat black paint mainly so I can distinguish which gun is which at a glance. The other two of the same model and make are in .22 caliber.One being painted camo the other left as is.
 
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A local garage specialising in old Citroen commercial vehicles. Check out the painting in the doorway......

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I got a CRX > SL converter yesterday that allows me to use my vintage Zeiss Contarex lenses on my Lumix S1. I took the camera and a Zeiss 50mm Planar f2.8 out with me to work.


Sunflower, cropped around 70% of full frame shot........

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Bokeh test at f5.6........

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A little cluster in one of my customer's garden......

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100% crop of the above, hand-held at f8.......

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I put an old Zeiss 35mm f2.8 Distagon on the Lumix S1 for this afternoon's dog walk.

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