Just make sure the inside of the tube is clean, and that the seating surfaces for the check valve and exhaust valve are polished smooth and flat. I haven’t shown re-assembly, but it’s pretty much the reverse of dis-assembly. Even a few early 392/397’s had a soldered valve, and are similar in dis-assembly.
The same basic process also applies to the 310 and 317, and the later 340/342/347 series (although the safety is different). But this video deals with the tear-down of a repairable Benjamin 312. We have other video’s showing a ‘cut out’ of a Benjamin 312, and how the internals work. Either option is preferred to the scrap heap.
Maybe others, after seeing the detail involved, will decide that it is better to send the old Benji off to a professional airgunsmith for repair. So, maybe these videos will be of interest to someone who has come to posses a ‘soldered valve’ Benjamin that doesn’t hold air anymore or shoots weakly, and who wants to get it back in trim. Heir ‘Awwww, just throw it out with the rest of his junk’.
Grandchild to heir ‘This old thing doesn’t even work’. Even worse is a trip to the dump after grandpa or Uncle Bob dies and the heirs are clearing (throwing) out his stuff. Lightweight, easy to cock, reasonably accurate, I associate these Benjamins with independence and freedom, especially during my summers off from school.įast forward to 2014 as an airgun accumulator (always got my eye open for one, but am not a collector), I hate to see these classic air rifles fatally damaged during a ham-fisted repair. Roaming the hills around the (then) undeveloped east side of the Napa Valley, shooting at whatever seemed a suitable target. It may be a childhood thing, bringing back memories of riding my bicycle with my air rifle across the handlebars, searching for pop bottles along the roads (yes, people used to just throw the empties out the car window!!), then redeeming them at a little country store to buy more pellets. I can’t help it, I love the old tootsie-roll forearm Benjamin pumpers. Bill Ramsey & Associates reserves the right to withdraw or re-catalog items in this auction.If it seems like I’m putting up a lot of video about this particular airgun, well, I am. Internet bidders who desire to make certain their bid is acknowledged should use the proxy-bidding feature and leave their maximum bid 24 hours before the auction begins. Bill Ramsey & Associates will not be responsible for any missed bids from any source. Under no circumstances shall Bidder have any kind of claim against Bill Ramsey & Associates or anyone else if the Internet service fails to work correctly before or during the live auction. Bidder acknowledges and understands that this service may or may not function correctly the day of the auction. Bidder agrees that everything is sold as is and that they may not return any item they purchase.īill Ramsey & Associates is providing Internet pre-auction and live bidding as a service to Bidder. Bill Ramsey & Associates will not be responsible for any errors or omissions in the description of the merchandise unless it is a material and intentional misrepresentation of the item itself. Bill Ramsey & Associates shall endeavor to describe in detail each item and any pertinent information about it. It is the Bidder's responsibility to determine condition, age, genuineness, value or any other determinative factor. Bidder shall be the sole judge of value.īidders who bid from off site and are not present at the live auction or preview understand and acknowledge that they may not be able to inspect an item as well as if they examined it in person. In no event shall Bill Ramsey & Associates be held responsible for having made or implied any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Bill Ramsey & Associates may attempt to describe the merchandise in advertising, on the Internet and at the auction but makes no representations.
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