SwiftAirgunsWork

Back on the Rapid kick

2010-09-29T20:31:00.000-07:00

been building like a mad man
CST tactical 25cal

CST titanium 22cal

my own custom 20cal carbine

barrel work shortened to 19inchs

One or my FT 20cals

50cal been running

25calcustom shroud

25 cal custom Tactical

Vanquish tuning

25 cal build

Mark1 FT build

picked up a air compressor this year

25 cal build CST custom carbon fiber shroud

short stubby barrel work

308 Mark1 100fpe ++++

along with tons of parts made things are still rolling along

best regards swift

still working

2009-12-05T16:02:00.000-08:00

haven't posted in awhile here but still doing the rapid thing

Cheers Swift

New stuff for the New Year

2009-01-31T21:24:00.000-08:00

Have a lot of plans for this year the new elevation knobs are just the starters

Need custom rapid work
anodizing can be offered

along with custom barrel cutting and port work

high profile Rails can be custom made

or rail mods can be done

left and right handed models available check with your dealer .

My Web Site

2008-10-14T23:57:00.000-07:00

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

a 13 x40 gear head production lathe

Jet Mill 8 x36 table with DRO readout.

customer security system . come with guard dog

custom made parts with indexer or

rotary table for future work

custom port work on barrels

I can recut barrel crowns or do new ones .

Barrel straightening and cutting

properly indexed port work

extreme shrouds available

custom quick fill inserts for rapids

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

The .50cal Rapid project

2008-10-09T22:47:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

best output from this to date is 110fpe or 529fps

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

410 gets a upgrade in the barrel

2008-09-29T19:23:00.000-07:00

hi guys
this is from my own 410erb , its been a great shooter up until one day when out target shooting it all the sudden stopped grouping ,
it went from one hole group at 25 yards to 2-1/2 inch group and I couldn't get it to come back around , so it been sitting till this weekend ,
I had it in and out of Marvs stock but before putting it back together I figured i see if i could get the shroud off and check it out and look for any problems .

the shroud I've looked at a few time and really didn't want to mess with it but after a extra try i found it unscrewed .
and to my surprise I found it had a barrel support with o-ring that both failed and slide forward causing the barrel to drop a little in the shroud and cause clipping issues which led to the inaccuracy.

there's just one grub screw that holed the barrel in place

the shroud floats in the barrel band with a o-ring in side of it

the gun had in it three baffle , i believe its missing two and should have had five in it from looking at PDF files on the gun .
if so this led to the part moving forward as it free floats on the barrel
you can see the bad o-ring in this pic

here you can see how fare the factory support can move on the barrel

I had to make a tool to get the front part out of the shroud and use some heat

instead of just putting it back together I recrowned the barrel .
(before )

(after)

then I installed a new barrel support .

and spacer to make up for the missing parts .

after it was back together and sited in all was back to normal
maybe a little better .
with this ten shot group

Now my 410s ready for action again .

enjoy

Swift

Airgunning

2008-08-28T19:22:00.000-07:00

Thinking of starting a blog adventures in air gun machining and there uses.

heres some work i did on a daystate airwolf and a Theoben rapid

Steyr

AA410 stock

Wolf

Vanquish

My stock

MFR

Quick fill inserts

Mark1

Mark1 #2