Norica Comando
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Topic: Norica Comando
Posted By: Daz-nz
Subject: Norica Comando
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2025 at 6:27pm
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A mate just gave me a Norica Comando to fix. I suspect the leather washer has failed. The blue book says its rated at 530fps, but cant find a manufacture date. Possibly 70s or 80s? Any one know about this model? Looks to be a junior model. I was told about its use by the owner, back when he was young, it was used to shoot at each other, which was common back then |
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Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2025 at 6:30pm
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Had trouble adding photo, sorted now ------------- |
Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2025 at 6:33pm
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Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2025 at 7:17pm
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If your on a google browser just hold your finger on the image and do a Google lens search. Got plenty of links just now doing it. |
Posted By: mercs
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2025 at 7:21pm
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Great colour scheme. Norica styling has not changed in 40 years  |
Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2025 at 7:38pm
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Thanks Kruzaroad, hadnt seen that trick before. Same basic style, but I think your version looks better Mercs Ill post some my photos when i get it to bits ------------- |
Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2026 at 9:47pm
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Finally got round to stripping this down, bit of a mission. A mate has had this since he was a kid, many decades ago.
It wasn't firing pellets out, the piston moved forward and I could hear gas escaping, but not enough to fire a pellet.
Disassembly didn't go easily, a very particular clamp is required, which I don't possess, of course, so after some time, loss of skin and even more cross words, I got it apart. The problem was the trigger block, the main spring has to be compressed in place to move trigger block forward into the main tube and lifted out the trigger hole. With very little filing, the trigger block was made to come out the end of the tube with the main spring, perhaps it was never meant to come apart after manufacturer. Anyway, I now had it in pieces. No leather washer, it has a PTFE type, everything looked ok, except the cylinder tube was all gummed up. The piston washer has hardened, the breach o-ring isn't flash either.
Cleaned up everything, including the barrel, which probably hasn't been cleaned in decades either. Reassembled.
Its working now, although power is fairly low, claimed to be 540fps new, don't think its anywhere near that now. A new piston washer, main spring and breach seal would make a difference.
Surprisingly, my youngest really likes it, light weight, easy to shoot, and looks sporty.
I'm not a fan of it, but it does shoot consistently ------------- |
Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2026 at 6:07am
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Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2026 at 2:11pm
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Sounds like it would benifit from a new piston seal and probably barrel seal. Plenty available from places on web. Ive got them in from aussie and england. A sash clamp and a block/socket is what ive always used to compress a spring to take pressure of a pin. Daughter will be pleased ots running better, bit if its not sealing properly ots going to affect constant poi. That aint good for her as she will think its her shooting. Being its got made in spain on barrel and its been owned by mate for decades, im assuming its a gamo. Seals should be available and if its an old gamo it will probly be a better quality gun than the newer ones. Good project to be working on for sure. |
Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2026 at 5:21pm
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Its a Norica, i assume thats a different company to gamo, well at the time anyway? The main spring on this is well had it, when i finally got the trigger block out, the spring barely reached out of the tube, after a couple of days out, it had grown to 100mm out of the tube. Being 49 or 50 years old, bits have got tired. Ill talk to my mate about fixing it up, depends how much he wants to spend on it. Its surprisingly accurate, even with very low power, i was shooting 5m with open sights and punching the same hole. But yeah, a fun little project. It was cheaply made at the time, but still feels better made than some airguns made today ------------- |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2026 at 7:07pm
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My mistake. Not a gamo. Custom airseals in aussie has the 26mm screw held, piston seal ( if that is what yours is) for 26 bucks. Plus postage i assume. Not sure if thats aussie bucks either. |
Posted By: Daz-nz
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2026 at 9:34pm
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After a few dozen shots, it failed the send a pellet out the barrel again. The owner said he would spend some money on it, so I dismantled it, measured everything up, sent the dimensions off to Ron Young. After a week or so, new spring and piston washer installed, not exact sized parts but close enough to work. Breach seal is an odd ball size and haven't found one yet, so original still in place. It's shooting with some reasonable power for its size now. New chrony arrived today, so I'll doing some testing and see if it reaches original spec as listed in the blue book |