Ok, I decieded that I wanted to start building a cocker using nothing but the cheapest, ugliest, barely working parts I could find. Initially I had hoped to not spend more then $150 on the entire project, but I think that might be going up.
Of course, for a base you need a body. Something to build off of. Cruising around ebay I saw this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=16048
It didn't seem like a terrible deal. Good looking Mini-Body to build off of, and a gripframe minus the internals too.
Too bad the ebay guy decided to be a jerk and not say anything or show any pictures of the "custom milled" side. looks like someone took a hacksaw to this poor cocker. On top of that, the griframe is ALL messed up. Looks like it used to be a Proline frame. The right side by the front grip screw is either milled off, or broken off, but either way they drilled another hole for the screw into the body about three milimeters behind the front grip screw... I can't see if it punctured the valve chamber, but hopefully it didn't...
Aside from all that, All I need is:
Front and back blocks (Pre-2k)
Valve
Hammer
Springs
Cocking Rod
Pump Arm
Front Pneumatics
Trigger frame (maybe, don't know if I'm going to keep this one)
Trigger frame internals (plate, sear, etc...)
IVG
Bolt
Bolt pin
and about a dozen other scres/rods/acuators, etc...
I was thinking about just turning it into a sniper I/II/III whatever, but don't know if they can do that on Mini-bodies... What more has to be done to make it a pump?
Of course, for a base you need a body. Something to build off of. Cruising around ebay I saw this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=16048
It didn't seem like a terrible deal. Good looking Mini-Body to build off of, and a gripframe minus the internals too.
Too bad the ebay guy decided to be a jerk and not say anything or show any pictures of the "custom milled" side. looks like someone took a hacksaw to this poor cocker. On top of that, the griframe is ALL messed up. Looks like it used to be a Proline frame. The right side by the front grip screw is either milled off, or broken off, but either way they drilled another hole for the screw into the body about three milimeters behind the front grip screw... I can't see if it punctured the valve chamber, but hopefully it didn't...
Aside from all that, All I need is:
Front and back blocks (Pre-2k)
Valve
Hammer
Springs
Cocking Rod
Pump Arm
Front Pneumatics
Trigger frame (maybe, don't know if I'm going to keep this one)
Trigger frame internals (plate, sear, etc...)
IVG
Bolt
Bolt pin
and about a dozen other scres/rods/acuators, etc...
I was thinking about just turning it into a sniper I/II/III whatever, but don't know if they can do that on Mini-bodies... What more has to be done to make it a pump?
is what it looks like now. This body was a right feed that was cutup and rewelded for centerfeed, and you could see the lines where it was welded when I got the body. reanodizing was out of question, but powdercoating did a good job of hiding the flaws. It took two coats to get it to look decent and while not perfect, it looks fairly good.
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