Old leather seal help please
Hello all, can any of the members tell me The best way to recondition old leather seal pls?
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Andy
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Re: Old leather seal help please
Can you tell me what state it is in? Is it dried out? Do you have a pic? What is it out of? You can upload the pic straight onto the forum now.
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Re: Old leather seal help please
An interesting gun. If it is marked DRP (Deutsche Reichs Patent) that shows it was pre world war two - between 1935-1945 ish. If you take the stock off under the breech area you should be able to find the date.ikarma70 wrote:The rifle is a Haenel mod.1 DRP.
If the gun is shooting to your satisfaction and you don't want to dismantle it just putting a few drops of oil down the transfer port and leave the gun in a corner to let the oil permeate through the seal is better than doing nothing. Yes, it will 'Deisel' for a while. If you have something like Mink oil or Cengar Green Oil to hand that would be far better. Myself I would be stripping it and relubing the whole gun, but then you could be opening a whole new can of worms! I feel a tutorial coming on.......
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Re: Old leather seal help please
Yes you are right in saying its an interesting gun.
The date 1 12 38 is stamped into the butt and stamped "e" on it too.
It ticks all the right boxes too as it has the following features; adjustable ramp sight, rear cylinder safety catch, rifled barrel and its .177, i have been told that its rare to find such a mod 1 with all those features.
As for shooting it, it was the gun i used in the ubc vintage speead in agw(?) and its surprisingly accurate for a pre war gun..... I can just imagine the young Hitler being trained using this rifle.
The date 1 12 38 is stamped into the butt and stamped "e" on it too.
It ticks all the right boxes too as it has the following features; adjustable ramp sight, rear cylinder safety catch, rifled barrel and its .177, i have been told that its rare to find such a mod 1 with all those features.
As for shooting it, it was the gun i used in the ubc vintage speead in agw(?) and its surprisingly accurate for a pre war gun..... I can just imagine the young Hitler being trained using this rifle.
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Re: Old leather seal help please
You can buy sets of different size leather washers on fleabay.They can be expensive, £15 for 6 sizes but I have repaired some old rifles with them.Hitler would never have trained with a rifle like yours, he was 25 years old in 1914 and served in the First World War.
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Re: Old leather seal help please
I just rebuilt a Haenel Model I DRP a few months ago, and was quite surprised at the condition of the leather piston seal - very well preserved, and pliable. The whole gun was given a proper cleaning, and the leather treated with pure silicone oil prior to re-assembly with fresh lubes. Even the leather breech seal was treated and re-used. Only real problem with the gun that I worked on was a fatigued and canted mainspring, and with the new mainspring in it, and the fresh lubricants, it shoots like a brand new gun once again.
Age of any airgun isn't necessarily indicative of a dried out leather piston seal or breech seal. I have seen guns 100+ years old with very well preserved leather seals, and alternatively, guns of only about 30 years old with dried out and crumbling leather seals. I suspect that a great many factors come into play with either scenario.
Age of any airgun isn't necessarily indicative of a dried out leather piston seal or breech seal. I have seen guns 100+ years old with very well preserved leather seals, and alternatively, guns of only about 30 years old with dried out and crumbling leather seals. I suspect that a great many factors come into play with either scenario.