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I am having trouble locating parts/diagrams for an older Benjamin Classic .22 I would like to rebuild. I bought it about 18yrs ago from Canadian Tire, and I have much nicer rifles now but I want to learn about disassembling springers and replacing seals, etc... so I would like to make a project/learning experience of this rifle. The speeds and groupings are way off, and it used to be a decent non-PAL springer, so if I can fix it up I can give it to my nephew who is interested in airguns now. The manual says the model number is B5M22PX, but the Canadian and US Crosman sites do not list this model, and when I enter the model number manually at the Canadian site the only part that shows up is a replacement stock with the description "obsolete". Does anyone here know if there is another model number with the same seals and basic parts? I dont want to order the wrong ones, obviously...

Any of the Crosman/Benjamin B18/19 based springers should have interchangeable seals. piston, springs with the B Classic. B18 is the designation for .177 cal, B19 for .22 cal, but apart from spring and barrel the other parts are basically the same. Since your classic is a classic classic (18 yrs old), it will have a fixed jam in the compression tube and and an alive jam in the breach block. There are many threads on here on how to tune this rifles, but here is a short list:
1. replace breach seal and piston seal, deburr innards of compression tube, moly and reassemble.
2. replace plastic breach washers with brass washers.
3. if breach lockup is still sloppy after 2, replace/reshape alive jam and jam spring with a stiffer one.
4. Replace mainspring if power is low.
5. Add a spring sleeve if there is twang
6. Do a trigger mod, I like the ETA trigger mod, but if you have an original stampted steel trigger blade you'll need a different mod - the gold triggers were the gold standard, but now not so easy to find.

HIH, the original nickle plated/chrome Classics were pretty rifles. they looked a lot like mini Super Streaks - now there is a rifle that you never hear about anymore (B22 riles, magnum springers - not compatible parts with the B18/19s).

Other B18/19 for Crosman are Quest, Phantom, Trail, Optimus etc. If you say which specific part you want to get someone will know the right PN from Crosman that will fit.

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Thanks Duke, thats great information... exactly what I was looking for! I agree with you, I think the nickel-type finish Benjamins are good-looking... and seemed to be accurate and fun to shoot, if a bit heavy. I'd like to give it a second life so thank you for helping. I'm sure I will post again when I start working on it, I've never had a springer apart before so this should be fun! (?) I have to make a spring compressor first though so I'd better get cracking... Cheers!