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Work's been putting a damper on my hobbies, but
I managed to make progress on my latest B18 build, I proudly present Crosman Ventom V1.0;
It has the compression tube from a Venom, Phantom .22 barrel with Venom brake, a custom adjustable NP, short compression piston, and a 3-9x40 AO scope (generous gift from jckstrthmghty, thanks again )
Stock was refinished with boiled linseed/tung oil blend, tinted with gunstock stain. it has 2 coats atm, will apply min 4 coats as time goes by. Shoots CP domes 14.3 gr at 490-497 fps, tuned by bleeding the NP a few spurts at a time until that speed was achieved. unfortunately I don't have a way to measure the pressure in the NP at the set point. It took about 5 iterations of bleeding and testing to get it there.
I've worked on the breach lockup, reshaped and re sprung alive jam, brass breach washers. No trigger work yet, and no accuracy/pellet testing, but it is putting the cp in a small circle. There is about 1/8" pre-load on the NP and the shot cycle is very sharp and pleasant. I'm due for a few more toys in the mail next week so my B18 endeavors will go to the back burner.. I'll be re coating the stock over time, so stay tuned for V2.0 sometime later this spring.

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Iacio, ergo sum

That looks great.

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I have some airguns.

Very impressive machining skills. Bravo!
My .22 Phantom needed the same alive jamb work. Made a huge difference.

Ventom, Phantimus, -you guys are making me nervous. Jumbling of words can be an early sign of dementia. Now where did I put my keys...

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Practice is when something works, but you don't know why.
In my shop, Theory and Practice are combined!
Nothing works and I don't know why.

Two lathes and too many projects

Its nice to see all the Modding of airguns going on and again nice work ...

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VE7SHM//VE7ZJ

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She's a beauty!

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I'm still waiting for the day when government finally admits to us all that aliens do exist, that and the Leafs to win the Stanley cup.

Beautiful looking rifle!!!

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Jonathan

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Great work agin Duke!

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Very nice job. Going to be one classy rifle.

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