Saturday, June 9, 2012

Kessler Air Rifle Disassembly, Part 3

On I go…
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Like the Rochester I did, I had to desolder the valve from the pump tube.
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Desoldered valve assembly.
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The valve stem pushes that ball off of a rubber gasket inside the valve body.
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There’s a thin copper washer for sealing and as I have read, “timing” the assembly position...
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Inlet valve removed.
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Looks just like the Rochester part.
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Seals are shot. This is partly due to some overzealous heating on my part.
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Nut inside that captures the valve washer.
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Nut removed.
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Washer dug out…
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I have some Kessler seal kits that came with my Rochester purchase. The pump cup looks very different so I’ll have to make/hack a new pump rod probably. So I’ll clean everything up and try and reseal it soon.

3 comments:

Paul said...

Very cool. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Unknown said...

Were you able to reassemble this to working order?

Felice Luftschein said...

I wasn't, the valve has some damage that I needed to address and I just haven't had the time lately.
Nick