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HAM Sharp Shooter
I can't do this legally where I live, but boy oh boy do I want a rifle scabbard on my R100RT
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Others Some thoughts on GX compressors
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I've always had a "BB gun" as far back as my memory goes. Then the wife bought me a Sheridan Silver Streak in 5 mm when we got married just after the last ice age. It was stolen in a burglary years later. Got my son a multi pump BB gun when he was "old enough" for me to get away with it.
Somewhere I saw the term "PCP" and googled it, read more and was intrigued. That simmered until the morning the wife and I were eating breakfast, sipping coffee, admiring the backyard flowers and a wild rabbit hopping around munching an occasional blade of grass.
She opined that it was the most beautiful, tranquil and idyllic scene ever. Then that rabbit spied the prized three foot tall white lily that the wife had ever so carefully and lovingly transplanted from her dearly departed mother's garden back home. That rabbit looked up at the big white blossoms, then at the ground under them, then back up to the blossoms, and back to the ground. It occurred to me he might be calculating something but it all happened so quickly. He then looked all around and just as casually as you please, hopped over to the lily stalk and gave it a little nip. Whop went the lily. He then hopped over and started munching a blossom. The wife jumped straight up and hollered, "SHOOT THAT SON OF A BITCH!!". I secretly smiled and took that statement as a free license to buy the suitable tool for this job. I had some research to do.
Ended up with a Hammerli Pneuma in .177 with an LDC and a Simmons scope, all new, total cost about $275. There was a paintball shop around the corner that would fill my old scuba tank and flea-bay paintball CF tanks with dry nitrogen for FREE. Well, almost free. I'd tip the high school kid running the store a five and that was more than enough. They loved seeing me coming in. The other kids shopping there never even thought about tipping.
That lasted until COVID and the store closed. Now I have to drive to the paintball field on weekends to get them filled, but this is by far THE CHEAPEST hobby I've ever heard of.
Found the right pellets, got the scope dialed in and the rabbit didn't last a week. Chipmonks kept me entertained for several years - until a heard of feral cats took up in the neighborhood.
Somewhere I saw the term "PCP" and googled it, read more and was intrigued. That simmered until the morning the wife and I were eating breakfast, sipping coffee, admiring the backyard flowers and a wild rabbit hopping around munching an occasional blade of grass.
She opined that it was the most beautiful, tranquil and idyllic scene ever. Then that rabbit spied the prized three foot tall white lily that the wife had ever so carefully and lovingly transplanted from her dearly departed mother's garden back home. That rabbit looked up at the big white blossoms, then at the ground under them, then back up to the blossoms, and back to the ground. It occurred to me he might be calculating something but it all happened so quickly. He then looked all around and just as casually as you please, hopped over to the lily stalk and gave it a little nip. Whop went the lily. He then hopped over and started munching a blossom. The wife jumped straight up and hollered, "SHOOT THAT SON OF A BITCH!!". I secretly smiled and took that statement as a free license to buy the suitable tool for this job. I had some research to do.
Ended up with a Hammerli Pneuma in .177 with an LDC and a Simmons scope, all new, total cost about $275. There was a paintball shop around the corner that would fill my old scuba tank and flea-bay paintball CF tanks with dry nitrogen for FREE. Well, almost free. I'd tip the high school kid running the store a five and that was more than enough. They loved seeing me coming in. The other kids shopping there never even thought about tipping.
That lasted until COVID and the store closed. Now I have to drive to the paintball field on weekends to get them filled, but this is by far THE CHEAPEST hobby I've ever heard of.
Found the right pellets, got the scope dialed in and the rabbit didn't last a week. Chipmonks kept me entertained for several years - until a heard of feral cats took up in the neighborhood.
What a wonderful story! Yeah, we've been happily married since some time just after the last ice age too. Congratulations
bchannell
HAM Sharp Shooter
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Someone mentioned "replacing the grease" in these compressors. That is exactly the kind of maintenance I'm advocating. I take my compressors completely apart (except for the gearbox) and clean everything up and re-grease everything. The whole process takes about an hour if you've done it a time or two. So far, no hiccups.
You don't even need any special greases or high priced stuff. I use Renewable Lubricants Food Grade grease on the piston and cylinder lube, and use a good grade of grease like general purpose grease such as Mobil 1 or Mystik for the crank bearing. I'm not a believer in moly grease for the roller bearings in the crank, (I'm a looooong time member of bobistheoilguy.com, hence my opinion on moly and roller bearings). The compressor is nowhere near a hostile environment for grease, they run relatively slow, and shouldn't be run long enough to build any appreciable heat. You could make the argument that they are under some load, but again, not a lot compared to gc-lb grease design loads.
This is another one of those situations of any maintenance is better than what you use, other than the detonation problem.
You don't even need any special greases or high priced stuff. I use Renewable Lubricants Food Grade grease on the piston and cylinder lube, and use a good grade of grease like general purpose grease such as Mobil 1 or Mystik for the crank bearing. I'm not a believer in moly grease for the roller bearings in the crank, (I'm a looooong time member of bobistheoilguy.com, hence my opinion on moly and roller bearings). The compressor is nowhere near a hostile environment for grease, they run relatively slow, and shouldn't be run long enough to build any appreciable heat. You could make the argument that they are under some load, but again, not a lot compared to gc-lb grease design loads.
This is another one of those situations of any maintenance is better than what you use, other than the detonation problem.
Hateful McNasty
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Then what we need is next time you do take step by step pictures of the process and post a compressor lube help thread .
Probably help a few out with that better show and tell explanation to guide them right
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HAM Sharp Shooter
Careful what you wish forThen what we need is next time you do take step by step pictures of the process and post a compressor lube help thread .
Probably help a few out with that better show and tell explanation to guide them right
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Hateful McNasty
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Well charging and collecting are worlds apart hereCareful what you wish for
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AMEN!Well charging and collecting are worlds apart here
I have not even gotten to the 4 hour of use mark to turn the grease pot once yet. But from what I have watched on youtube videos the grease in the pot should last quite a long time. when that time comes, I always believed in going with the grade that the company had used, and if you cant find that exact stuff around, I would go with synthtic stuff you suggested as well. Not sure food grade stuff is the same, but I wouldnt be able to tell the difference, other than maybe when its running it starts to smell like french fries.....lol
mmmmmm......french fries....
Hateful McNasty
Grand HAMster
Well food grade is mostly synthetic or less carbon to burn and build up .
The gx factory I think uses food grade at get go. Thing is as well mixing different lubes or some incompatible issue you discover too late..lol
Then I guess they start off using food grade just in case a guy fill a breathing air tank and breaths that air . ( Liability)
There promoting it as a diving fill compressor as showed here (cs4i)
Anyway like I say " what does it's manual call for you to use "? Surely it's under maintenance or specifications ..
The gx factory I think uses food grade at get go. Thing is as well mixing different lubes or some incompatible issue you discover too late..lol
Then I guess they start off using food grade just in case a guy fill a breathing air tank and breaths that air . ( Liability)
There promoting it as a diving fill compressor as showed here (cs4i)
Anyway like I say " what does it's manual call for you to use "? Surely it's under maintenance or specifications ..
I went down this road, oh so much fun !!! They multiply like rabbits!, Big bore is almost like having a powder burner.You could buy another Airgun, then you probably would need a compressor.
I love not having to find or worry about a source of HPA.
I'll just stick with my old F10 shoebox compressor. I paid $500 on close out and couldn't be happier. All I do is keep the lube pads soaked in silicone oil and smear a little lithium grease on the rods where they go through the bushings. I hook it up, turn it on and go do something else. It fills my scba 45 min tanks with no muss and no fuss. It shuts off automatically at 4500 psi. I've been using it for the last 5 years and only had to replace a fuse 1 time cause I tried to restart it without bleeding the pressure.
Hateful McNasty
Grand HAMster
I guess it's silly to spend money on something you don't need when you old unit is doing a good job .. Just makes sense to me.. cause I'm also cheap too...
Unfortunatly the manual doesnt specify. Just says "do not add oil or petroleum products".Well food grade is mostly synthetic or less carbon to burn and build up .
The gx factory I think uses food grade at get go. Thing is as well mixing different lubes or some incompatible issue you discover too late..lol
Then I guess they start off using food grade just in case a guy fill a breathing air tank and breaths that air . ( Liability)
There promoting it as a diving fill compressor as showed here (cs4i)
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Anyway like I say " what does it's manual call for you to use "? Surely it's under maintenance or specifications ..
I could scan the 1 page manual if somebody wanted it posted here.
Hateful McNasty
Grand HAMster
Some they got
| Lubrication Mode: | added food-grade grease before factory. never need to add any oil or grease in future |
But I find it funny in the units like the 4 it's made difficult to know ..
You mean like any new car these days?
At my place of work, we used food grade grease with no problems and those machines ran 24hr 7 days a week, paper Coverting machines. Like the French fry,lolI have not even gotten to the 4 hour of use mark to turn the grease pot once yet. But from what I have watched on youtube videos the grease in the pot should last quite a long time. when that time comes, I always believed in going with the grade that the company had used, and if you cant find that exact stuff around, I would go with synthtic stuff you suggested as well. Not sure food grade stuff is the same, but I wouldnt be able to tell the difference, other than maybe when its running it starts to smell like french fries.....lol
mmmmmm......french fries....
Hateful McNasty
Grand HAMster
Trump working at McDonald's the other day said the food grade grease there was pretty good stuff .. ( tasty)
Gramps-Too
HAM Sharp Shooter
Thank you. Very interesting. I learned a lot from this link!
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