laminate stock

True about Glenn's.
Well documented on a lot of ft forums the procedure for cutting down, closing ends, quenching the spring so as not to make it brittle, and which way to run preload washers, spacers, and piston weights as well.

For the use Paul's going to make it for, it's probably worth trying, as long as it's all squared off first.
I think Glenn's spring may not have had the right procedures applied to the shortening of it, or to where the bulk of the weight was put in the spacers/piston weights/ top hat.
Your call Paul, after all, you have it in hand and can make a judgement call on the springs condition

Well I got a new spring and put it in. Fired nice but was firing at about 13-14 ftlb. So I wanted it down around 11-12. I cut the spring, heated it up with a butane torch and flattened the last coil, quenched it in oil then smoothed off the end. I also put a sleeve on the inside of the spring on the guide, and also on the piston end around the outside of the spring. This stopped the slight twang it had. It was now firing at about 10.5 ftlb which should be really good for shooting sparrows in the supermarkets. Reduced recoil, but enough power. I did the pellet on the turret thing and it stayed on, :)

Edited by Pauly5 - 10 Oct 2014 at 9:41pm

Kind of like a feline Who ate all the pies, it's who ate all the sparrows. :)

If you are selling a weihrauch I know someone who might be keen. Actually not me, unless it's a 77 maybe, even though I shouldn't, but probably would. (Serious internal struggle)