s400 cylinder change help

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Paulmurd
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s400 cylinder change help

Sat Nov 19, 2016 9:25 pm

hi. Im wanting to change my carbine cylinder to a full length that you get on the classic & im wondering if its as straight forward as im picturing or is it a lot more technical ? Any help is very much appreciated as always.

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Sat Nov 19, 2016 10:00 pm

The good new is that it can be done. The problem is that the barrel will be too short to be supported by the band.
You can get a GML type strippers that attaches to the barrel,it then goes through the band and finally allows the rest of the stripper to screw fully home.

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:54 am

How easy is the actual cylinder swap over please bud? Ta

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Sun Nov 20, 2016 10:56 am

Paulmurd wrote:How easy is the actual cylinder swap over please bud? Ta

Just swap them. Rog

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:01 am

First remove all of the air from the cylinder.
Remove barrel clamp ( fig8)
Unscrew anti clock wise looking from muzzle to butt.

Some remove the dogleg to prevent scratching of the cylinder before unscrewing,but i don't.
Fitting the new one in reverse and lightly grease the seal with say Mollycote 33 or silicon grease.

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:17 pm

Many thanks. That sounds a lot more simple than i imagined it to be.

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:59 pm

Paulmurd wrote:Many thanks. That sounds a lot more simple than i imagined it to be.

Thanks

Am sorry my answer was a bit short to you, I was under the impression you new a lot more than you do. What BBF says is right, but sometimes the cylinders can be a pig to unscrew, AA use loctite on them and you sometimes need quite a bit of heat on them to melt it ( blow lamp ) it's best to take bolt housing off to do it then undo gauge mount and take that off aswell, it is simple, just take your time, once it's undone stick your other cylinder on and put it all back together, if you need to know anything else, just ask, someone will help. Rog

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:39 pm

And don't use the cheap silicon grease from Maplin, it's clear and for electrical insulation, it destroys O rings, use Molycote 33 or O ring grease from a dive shop.
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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:28 pm

Thanks folks. Where is the cheapest place to get a 400mm cylinder ?

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Re: s400 cylinder change help

Tue Nov 22, 2016 6:51 am

New one ... BGA Ltd via Julian on our site.
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