Ted's Sticky Crosman 1600

Ted brought me his old Crosman 1600 BB repeater to see if I could make it work. The seals seemed fine, but the action was very sticky. You had to manually push the trigger back and forth. I suspected that a spring was missing or something. As always (or mostly always) the manual and exploded drawing is available on the Crosman site.

It's a handsome pistol, modelled after the Colt Woodsman.

The right grip holds the CO2 cartridge and the screw on the bottom is turned with a coin to clamp the cartridge against the seal, and pierce it.

Removing 4 screws gains access to the internals of the pistol. Nothing was missing at all. I took care not to lose the safety spring and ball.

You'll notice the yellowish patches on the grey metal part under the connecting link from hammer to trigger. That's grease that has turned to stickum. All I had to do was squirt some light oil in, and scrape the old grease off as best I could. I didn't tear the pistol down completely because the design is a bit tricky to put back together, I had spent hours getting it right on another one I worked on. Not fun.

The safety parts.

Put a dab of grease on the ball and it won't come off the spring immediately.

The safety in place. Putting the cover back on retains everything.

The pistol works well now and Ted was happy.