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Air Gun Home Forum Index » General Air Gun Questions and Topics » BAM B262 Update: Finished Goto page 1, 2  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  BAM B262 Update: Finished   Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:03 pm cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 The BAM B26 that I ordered on the third arrived today. Last edited by cw on Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:17 pm; edited 6 times in total   Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:46 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6930 Location: "Out There" How's the wood on it? That cheekpiece does look obscenely high. I think I see your airgun secret powerplant in the background- that can of tire sealant. Sounds like you may have gotten one that was slightly better lubed than most of the BAM products. I've decided after fiddling with a few Chinese products that the goo found in many/most Chinese springers isn't lube at all- but more a corrosion inhibitor. _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:14 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Looks pretty good. Less ruggish then my Slavia. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:27 pm cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 The wood on CW Last edited by cw on Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:18 pm; edited 2 times in total   Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:12 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Why don't you make an adjustable cheesepeak? That's pretty easy, I recon you got enough cheekpiece there to make two. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:33 am cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 That's next Broommaster, as soon as I acquire some 7000 seies aluminum plate. And you are right, they are easy to make. Just hog out the general shape, carve out the adjustment slot. Fabricate a sliding nut to engage the adjustment slot, finish and you're done. CW Last edited by cw on Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:54 am; edited 1 time in total How's the trigger?   Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:07 pm cliffspot Veteran Member Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 132 Location: Miami via Hawaii On my B26, the pull was light and pretty smooth. But I couldn't feel the second stage. I sent it to Rich and it came back SWEET! _________________ There are no accidents; only ignorance, mechanical failure, and acts of God! I have loaded over 6 million rounds in the last 5 years and STILL have not seen it all!   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:56 am cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 Last edited by cw on Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:19 am; edited 1 time in total BAM XS-B26-2 Cheekpiece adjusted to sight plane.   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:36 am cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 I became tired of trying to shoot this gun with the too high OEM cheekpice so I decided to do something about it. The photos are pretty much self explanatory. I coated/soaked in some thinned matt finish. I don't know what kind of wood it is fabricated from, but I have never come across it before. When I first stripped off the finish I thought that someone had pieced it together. But it is all one piece. When I cut it, it made the whole shop smell like burning machine oil and was very difficult to cut. It reminded me of cutting rubber with a saw. A complete buffing with 0000 steel wool and I have a nice flat finish. This gun has turned out to be a real nice shooter to be added to my pest control arsenal. I can only turn the Condor down to 25 fpe. So at 16 fpe this one works out great. It's hard to see in the photos, but it has red, pink, green and blue hues running through it and elongated black dots. Does anyone have an idea as to what kind of wood this is? CW Last edited by cw on Fri May 02, 2008 8:40 am; edited 3 times in total   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:20 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6930 Location: "Out There" Nice job! As for the wood- we all just call it "Chinese Mystery Wood"- that particular stock/wood seems to be the same stuff BAM uses when making the Crosman Quest. Believe it or not, that's the "good stuff"- the wood on the B2's is even worse. It appear to have the consistency of driftwood, and is usually soaked in some sort of oil, perhaps to give it some sort of density. Looking into China's native tree population, it seems they have alot of dogwood, poplar and cottonwood- so it's likely one of them. The cottonwood trees apparently get fairly large- so I'm thinking that may be the one- but I don't know anything else about cottonwood to judge at this point. _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:26 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Nice Job indeed. I'd be picking one of those up if they were available here. Someone might want to send it to me. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:31 pm cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 You should Boommaster. I don't think that you would be disappointed. They can't be beat for under $200 with scope to your door. CW   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:27 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Hm, so HW50 kind of rifle, for hw30 kind of money. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:16 pm cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 Actually it's a copy of an HW95 or R9. CW Last edited by cw on Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:23 am; edited 1 time in total B26 trigger   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:41 pm cliffspot Veteran Member Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 132 Location: Miami via Hawaii CW wrote: They are all single stage triggers, but nice. They are actually 2 stage triggers but the chinese have not got the dimensions right. After Rich did the trigger, it has a solid second stage. _________________ There are no accidents; only ignorance, mechanical failure, and acts of God! I have loaded over 6 million rounds in the last 5 years and STILL have not seen it all! 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