How To Repair Daisy Bb Gun

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BB Gun Repair

Daisy Red Ryder model repair

I found my Cherry Ryder many years agone in an antique shop on the boardwalk in Myrtle Beach NC. I paid a couple dollars for information technology because none of us believed it was an antique. I wanted something to scare the squirrels out of our bird feeders without hurting them (also much).
When I got it home I loaded it with some bb's and gave information technology a try. The gun cocked and fired every bit if information technology was a normal bb gun (I had one of these as a child) only I could see the bb fly out of the butt and travel all of 2 anxiety as it arrondi to the ground, landing at my anxiety.
And so it sat in the entryway cupboard for many years while I pondered what to do adjacent (not a high priority).

I searched the net for aid on this problem but only found sites that described disassembly, etc. These were useful but none of them talked near this problem or it's solution. This is why I am posting this short notation. This is what I did to fix information technology and then far it has connected to piece of work very well (ane year later). I hope you lot observe it useful...

Note:This repair was many years agone, now, and the fix has held nicely.

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Daisy Red Ryder

Red Ryder BB gun seemed to piece of work fine except there was no compression to propel the BB more than a few anxiety from the terminate of the barrel. I searched the internet and found good information on how to take this thing apart without filing off those rivets!! ( I couldn't imagine that was necessary).

Disassembly

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Stock removed

Warning: please do not try this unless you are proficient with tools and accept adept hand strength. This is a firearm and contains a potent jump that are under continuous compression. The uncontrolled release of this pinch could potenentially cause parts to be propelled from the gun assembly and perhaps cause injury. Wear heart protection and practice care. Procede at your own risk.

First remove the gun stock by removing the screws that concur it in place.

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Spring retainer

Adjacent, there is a metallic piece that sticks out of the superlative of the butt merely behind the rear sight. This piece holds the spring-loaded plunger in place and provides the rear stop that the spring is compressed confronting when the gun is cocked.

This piece must be removed but since the spring is always partially compressed against information technology (this holds it in place) you need to compress the spring in lodge to remove this piece.

The trick hither is to push down on the spring without pushing on the servant. If you try to simply use a dowel (or similar) you will be pushing against the retainer and this won't motion. You need to bypass the retainer on both sides ( aprox 1/8" gap on each side of the retainer) and make contact with the spring merely. This is why we use ii pocket-sized metallic rods instead of one large rod (dowel).

Sorry about the blurry image - click on images to overstate.

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Spring retainer with 'tool' inserted
on either side.

The Google search returned instructions which included fabricating a spring compressor tool made from a piece of flat bar, the width of the within of the barrel, with a rectangular notch cut out leaving 2 fingers on each side. There is a gap on both (lateral) sides of the retainer. This allows you to apply pressure to the spring behind the retainer thus compressing it enough to easily slide the retainer out through the superlative of the barrel.

This motion picture shows ii metallic shisk kabob skewers which I used for this part of the operation ( why brand a tool when you only expect to do this once - always ).

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Tools

Here are the tools I used for disassembling this gun. Spiral drivers and two metal shish kabob skewers. At this point the trigger assembly and the cocking mechanism have been removed and the gun is ready for removal of the bound-loaded plunger.

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Extracting the retainer

Here you see me applying pressure to the jump with the skewers with one hand while pulling out the retainer with the other. When the spring pressure level is off it slides out hands.

Delight exist very careful with this stride. The spring is very stiff and any slip in this process can be unsafe and crusade injury.

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Retainer removed (red pointer)
Bound plunger (blueish arrow)

Hither are the pieces after removal of the plunger retainer (red pointer).

The plunger is free and partially removed from the gun (blue arrow). Information technology slides easily out of the barrel once the servant is removed.

Repair

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Retainer removed (ruby pointer)
Spring plunger (blue arrow)

Okay, finally, here we go:

The problem is with the piston associates that produces the puff of air pressure that propells the BB out of the gun. The air chamber is contained between ii seals. These are shown here in the compressed position equally they would be afterwards fireing the gun. The red arrow points to the stationairy seal (toward the forward finish of the gun). The blue arrow points to the moving seal that slides dorsum and forth with the jump.

The trouble with this gun was that the two seals had stuck together (probably from sitting for a long time in the un-cocked possition beingness pressed together by the jump). So when the gun was artsy the stationairy seal was pulled along with the movably seal and no air bedroom was formed and therefor no pinch to generate the puff that propelled the BB on it'southward way.

The fix was merely to dissever the two seals, remove the stationairy seal by sliding it off the tube, turn it effectually and supervene upon it on the tube. This presented a fresh face for the movable tube motion against and appeared to be far less likely to stick once more. (It's been a couple months since I did this so I don't remember exactly what convinced me to do this but sufice it to say that at the time I remember that information technology seemed quite obvious).

Re-associates

So, that'south it. Put everything back together in reverse order from removal. Again exist careful with the spring pinch stride. Note that the jump retainer has a bend to it that has to be oriented the aforementioned as it was removed. It bends towards the rear of the gun so that the spring wedges it against the slot in the lower role of the barrel - thus property it in place.

Also exist conscientious to re-install the trigger jump properly so that it provides resistance to the trigger -- otherwise the gun will tend to fire on it's own after cocking (hair trigger) - very dangerous.

I hope this works for you...

Comments and Suggestions:

Electronic mail from Kirt dtd Apr 27,2015

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Alternate compression tool

Hello Stuart,

Your weblog on BB GUN REPAIR saved my sanity. I had been working on repairing a Daisy 105B for a couple of hours. The mechanisms are very like to the Red Ryder. I finally got it autonomously but couldn't get the spring compressed for re-assembly to save my soul. I tried the metal Shish Kebob skewers, but mine slipped by the spring fourth dimension after time. But, that gave me the idea of what to use for a tool.

I took a ix" peg board loop, cutting the peg lath hook parts off, bent the ends in and voila! (picture fastened) It took just a few seconds to secure everything. Give thanks yous for your posting. Feel gratuitous to add this to your blog if you would like.

Email from Travis dtd March 28,2020

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Travis sent some pictures
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Hello Stuart

Cheers much for your website on the repair of the Red Ryder BB Gun.

The photos were really helpful in showing the mysteries of the spring within and your use of square skewers.

Non many sites have much info other than the blurry parts manuals and none seemed to take the dimensions of the prongs for the "special tool"

I couldn't find skewers but I happened on some 3/16" by 1 foot square stock at the subcontract store. Took a chance and they were the perfect width and length.

Slid right in each side and was able to just printing them against the side of the workbench...

Pro tip, have your butt right side up cuz that that jump retainer apparently is affected by gravity... luckily information technology didn't become far and hide like most things do in my garage floor. 😳 Holding it horizontal and upright (sights upwardly) worked much better the second time.

Turns out my felt washer must have gotten dry and shredded upwardly a scrap.

Then with even more searching, finally found the parts at jg Airguns (I recollect near Chicago) But got it put back together for the second time with the new parts and some oil.

I got this in the early 70'due south. Spent a lot of time with it. Grandpa & I would get out after nighttime and take care of sparrows in the corn crib and barn. He'd concur the flashlight and I'd take the shots. Good memories.

Thanks again for the help yous didn't know you were giving.