Tuesday, October 14, 2008

My Web Site

this may be as close to a Web site as I get
I have been working on my own shop and have it setup for doing Airguns and fabrication of small parts for several different lines of work but i concentrate on PCP type air guns and hop up parts.
my main focus is the rapid mark II line of PCP but i also work on Daystates, AirArms,
and will do most any mods with these and other makes .
heres my shop setup .
i have this room dedicated for machine work and have it setup now thanks to Rutland Tool & supply

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a 13 x40 gear head production lathe

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Jet Mill 8 x36 table with DRO readout.
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customer security system . come with guard dog
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custom made parts with indexer or
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rotary table for future work
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custom port work on barrels

custom ports

I can recut barrel crowns or do new ones .

chrowns


Barrel straightening and cutting

Barrel straighting



properly indexed port work

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extreme shrouds available

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custom quick fill inserts for rapids

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http://www.airgunadvice.net/index.php

I can be reached at swiftairgunparts@sbcglobal.net
or PM me( 220swift )on the airgunadvice site above
Thanks for looking
Ernie

Thursday, October 9, 2008

The .50cal Rapid project

Started fitting the 50cal barrel
thanks to Tofazfou for the donor barrel for this project

I started doing this to see if the Rapid platform can support such a caliber.
and to improve on any parts that are already produced
some testing done as its just getting under way .

the Barrel started from a dragon slayer 50cal that was converted to a 45cal
and was left over for this project .
here was the 45 and 50cal barrels
45cal

the barrel was then turned down to fit in the rapid receiver and ported for the install.

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next was the pellet probe this is done in two parts the outer part that seat on the barrel and the inner probe that pushes the pellet or in this case the round ball in the barrel

probes

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due to the outer O.D. of this barrel i also had to slab cut it .060th to clear the 500cc air bottle


you can barely see the flat in the barrel

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For the ammo I went with
Hornady .50 Cal, 176 Grains, Lead Round Balls ordered from
Impact Air Gun
he had the best price on them .
720 fps will give 200fpe so that's my set goal.
The Dragon Slayer barrel i have from the gun I think was up around 600 plus fps form the past setup . .
here are the 50cal round balls next to some 25cal in the middle and some of the .22calgold kodiaks lower
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best output from this to date is 110fpe or 529fps

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still working on the setup and internals parts .
and then heres some shot strings for past testing.

first set

it was up to 107.2 fpe
519.3
519.5
518.9
515.8
520.2
518.7
519.4
small shot string
its good like this for several rounds .and latter i did some inturnal stuff and moved that number up .
524.4
525.2
526.4
524.4
524.1
529.1===110.9fpe
526.8
524.9
527.1
tic tic tic tic a little at a time

enjoy
the Swifty Fifty Post