I have installed one of Nick Stannings (Tinbum) drop in kits to my TX200 along with a Titan No10 spring. It is producing 11 ft/lbs and shooting very sweetly.
My HW97 isnt hard to strip down compared to others, but these TX200 take ease to another level .the grease in the supplied zip bag isnt bum slide its just moly grease, the bum slide is in a small tub and is more of a paste , quite gritty in texture very high moly content over and above the amount in the ordinary grease
What reason did you put in the TInBum kit? He didn't explain the necessity for the upgrade. Just seems like a lot of useless tinkering. Putting the Titans spring in did it give you more foot-pounds? This is ridiculous to make these changes without reason.
Main reason I did it was to reduce the amount of spring noise. Everything has tolerances and a factory rifle can, in fact, have quite a bit of slop between the spring to the spring guide & top hat. This, in turn, can make the rifle louder than it needs to be. It still works brilliantly but some are louder than others. These kits are ‘made to measure’ to the measured internal diameter of your spring. 👍
@@BionicRusty definitely have a lot of factory tolerance, my TX200 is in the early 1000 serial range so 1992 and has never been upgraded, put it on a chronograph last week and it is at 12.9,had to leave it cocked for 2 days to get it bellow 12
great vid, really helps to whatch couple times. Cheers. It really is easiest air rifle to home tune. Tbt full kit with short stroke kit, and bum slide dry molly. Really does finish off the 0.177 tx200 mk 3 hc. Well worth effort and small price..!
+Austin Hamilton worth mentioning. If you want to be ' belt and braces' on the sear polishing, you can also do the adjustment screw tops and the bottom sear where they touch :)
I own one of these, bought brand new about 8 years ago but I’ve never actually used it. Would it be a good idea to disassemble and re grease everything before starting to use it?
Hope you got sorted (2 yrs ago) but one of two reasons. 1) The assembly is not correct and so the mechanism isn’t working correct. The safety latches right at the end of the travel. Or, 2) The stock bolts are screwed in too far or too long and catching on the cocking mechanism and stopping it cocking fully. Oh there is a third, I guess, and that’s that you’re not giving it enough welly too cock it. 👍
@@BionicRusty Hi, Thanks for your reply, I gave up in the end, the safety catch still wouldn’t engage so for safety sake I went back to normal none tune. The gun works great, so will stay where I am for the moment.
@@mickyjb2003 I just had a similar problem. Started that the safety was intermittent - even though the gun would fully cock, the safety would not engage. Discovered that every bolt on the gun was loose and I think that it was allowing things to shift just a bit. While I was trying to fix it I installed a delrin tophat and then the gun refused to even cock. I eventually figured out that the "tail" of the tophat was hitting the top of the spring guide and not allowing full cocking stroke. I eventually put the original HEAVY tophat back in, but figured out that all would have worked if I trimmed the tophat or the spring guide by a few mm. reassembled and tightened everything and the safety is working again. I love how simple this gun is to work on although it strikes me as odd that the safety is the LAST thing to engage and that you can actually get the gun to cock and be ready to fire yet the auto safety is not engaged....
I've fitted s tinbum kit on my Hw 80 Fac version and the gun won't cock. Ive checked the length of the kit and it's correct. I reassembled the rifle with its original factory parts and it still won't cock,so obviously Ive done something wrong! Any ideas of what that may be? I would be grateful if you could me out with this problem. I thank you in advance for your time.
Brian Chapman Not so much power but tuning can increase the power. It's more to smooth the firing cycle, have less vibration, stop metal parts touching during firing, reduces noise and recoil. You still have to have skills to shoot well just the gun is nicer to shoot.
if only all airguns were as simple to strip
The Walther LGV and LGU aren't bad either.
My HW97 isnt hard to strip down compared to others, but these TX200 take ease to another level .the grease in the supplied zip bag isnt bum slide its just moly grease, the bum slide is in a small tub and is more of a paste , quite gritty in texture very high moly content over and above the amount in the ordinary grease
What reason did you put in the TInBum kit? He didn't explain the necessity for the upgrade. Just seems like a lot of useless tinkering. Putting the Titans spring in did it give you more foot-pounds? This is ridiculous to make these changes without reason.
Main reason I did it was to reduce the amount of spring noise.
Everything has tolerances and a factory rifle can, in fact, have quite a bit of slop between the spring to the spring guide & top hat.
This, in turn, can make the rifle louder than it needs to be. It still works brilliantly but some are louder than others.
These kits are ‘made to measure’ to the measured internal diameter of your spring. 👍
@@BionicRusty definitely have a lot of factory tolerance, my TX200 is in the early 1000 serial range so 1992 and has never been upgraded, put it on a chronograph last week and it is at 12.9,had to leave it cocked for 2 days to get it bellow 12
great vid, really helps to whatch couple times. Cheers. It really is easiest air rifle to home tune. Tbt full kit with short stroke kit, and bum slide dry molly. Really does finish off the 0.177 tx200 mk 3 hc. Well worth effort and small price..!
+Austin Hamilton worth mentioning. If you want to be ' belt and braces' on the sear polishing, you can also do the adjustment screw tops and the bottom sear where they touch :)
I own one of these, bought brand new about 8 years ago but I’ve never actually used it. Would it be a good idea to disassemble and re grease everything before starting to use it?
No
Very nice
Nice tutorial, but personally I’d have removed the scope to avoid any possible mishaps.
10 seconds in, I thought the same thing.
Good - make your own video then
Good job!!!
Did you have to do anything to the spring like finishing the ends?
Good idea, letting the scope be the workbench.
its painful to watch
Not as painful as watching tinbum strip a HW down.
You make it look so easy, I tried and for some reason my safety catch wouldn’t work. Any ideas.
Hope you got sorted (2 yrs ago) but one of two reasons.
1) The assembly is not correct and so the mechanism isn’t working correct. The safety latches right at the end of the travel. Or,
2) The stock bolts are screwed in too far or too long and catching on the cocking mechanism and stopping it cocking fully.
Oh there is a third, I guess, and that’s that you’re not giving it enough welly too cock it.
👍
@@BionicRusty Hi, Thanks for your reply, I gave up in the end, the safety catch still wouldn’t engage so for safety sake I went back to normal none tune. The gun works great, so will stay where I am for the moment.
@@mickyjb2003
I just had a similar problem. Started that the safety was intermittent - even though the gun would fully cock, the safety would not engage. Discovered that every bolt on the gun was loose and I think that it was allowing things to shift just a bit. While I was trying to fix it I installed a delrin tophat and then the gun refused to even cock. I eventually figured out that the "tail" of the tophat was hitting the top of the spring guide and not allowing full cocking stroke. I eventually put the original HEAVY tophat back in, but figured out that all would have worked if I trimmed the tophat or the spring guide by a few mm.
reassembled and tightened everything and the safety is working again. I love how simple this gun is to work on although it strikes me as odd that the safety is the LAST thing to engage and that you can actually get the gun to cock and be ready to fire yet the auto safety is not engaged....
You don't have to take it down like this all you do is take the trigger block out and slide the kit in don't need cleaning or degreasing
Where did you get the piston with extended latch rod from?
I got the new latch rod made by ISP airguns.
Does this affect the operation of the anti bear trap mechanism?
No. The bear trap worked as normal
Hi, great video. Love your gun.
Can you please tell me where did you get this fantastic stock for your TX???
Hi. Great job!! Much easy´r than on the Weihrauch HW 77k ! ( more parts must remove)
Can this kit work work with the Vortek kit?
Why not show the gun being shot?
Hi sir i need this kit please help me i am from pakistan...
I've fitted s tinbum kit on my Hw 80 Fac version and the gun won't cock.
Ive checked the length of the kit and it's correct. I reassembled the rifle with its original factory parts and it still won't cock,so obviously Ive done something wrong!
Any ideas of what that may be?
I would be grateful if you could me out with this problem.
I thank you in advance for your time.
Did you make sure the trigger was set?
@@Happy-Me. I communicated with Staning and he helped me with the issue. I had to cut 1 coil.
Legközelebb a kezét mutassuk ,ne a lábát akkor többet látunk!
Great review. 👍
Hi am new to air guns why fit this kit is it more powerful or what cheers
Brian Chapman Not so much power but tuning can increase the power. It's more to smooth the firing cycle, have less vibration, stop metal parts touching during firing, reduces noise and recoil. You still have to have skills to shoot well just the gun is nicer to shoot.
how do i get a kit for a hw97.alex
+Alex Miura get in touch with tinbum.
Easy strip down, far out!
Fantastic instructions as ever.
Top job, top man. 🍻👍
Did the spring need cutting?