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Post # 6: Wish Lists

3/17/2014

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It's really hard to tell how many readers we have of this little blog.  With 100 to 600 visitors every day I would hope that a few of you out there are reading and finding it at least worth the time it takes to read these little meanderings.  I'd really love to hear more of your comments, your take on the subject matter and even a few pointed questions.... or suggestions.  

So this reaching out does have a motive! I really love all these air guns.  I hope you do, too.  I am always thinking of what needs to be better or different or improved.  I just bet you fine folks do at least a bit of the same now and again. So, with that said I would like to invite YOU to share what you WISH were available but is NOT (yet).

I'll go first with a four of my dearest wishes... just to maybe get the collective synapses firing: 

1. The "holy grail" part on my wish list is a metal grip frame plate (now discontinued) for less than half the price of a new gun.  It is SO frustrating to me that I can plate or powder coat or polish and clear an entire frame, but there is that little triangle of black plastic to deal with.

2. I wish to have replacement options for all the Crosman plastic parts.  High on that list are the pumper (including Backpacker) barrel bands.  I do not like to be able to twist the barrel and tube laterally with little effort.  For some reason I do not have a problem with Delrin or properly engineered 3D printed plastic (the reason being is they are not bent easily at all... are very strong... take finishes well... yet are not brittle and do not shatter or break easily). Metal is good, but the offerings out there are pretty dang pricey. The Crosman plastic bends and distorts. It Is very tough, but hardly "serious" gun worthy.  That is perhaps why the metal breeches are so popular as an upgrade.  I am NOT knocking Crosman for using it!  I will repeat that I am amazed and thankful that Crosman makes these fine guns for so little of price.  I acknowledge that if they made them all metal and wood, then the price would be much higher and we would have less fun transforming them into what we want them to be. 

3. I wish for some rear sight options (besides the LPA MIM or the standard rear sight). I know there are more, but they cost MORE than the price of a new gun.  The Crosman rear sight is in my opinion a superior design (albeit that non-rigid plastic).  Maybe we can improve on that.  I also like the rear sight to be mid-gun on the guns we put longer barrels onto.  Whether LPA MIM, stock rear or other, the visual resolution is terrible when a long barrel is added and the distance between the two sights (front and rear) is lengthened without changing SOMETHING.  How can I hit the spinner at 20 meters if the front blade completely covers it up?  The stock Backpacker setup is pretty crude in my opinion.  These guns are more accurate than the sighting allows.  Maybe its just me!?

4. I wish for some inexpensive yet durable accessory mounting "helpers" that make it really easy to add a bi-pod or torch or laser to our guns without hanging metal adapters (scratch makers) all over our blued metal tubes and barrels. 

That's four.  Your turn.

Have fun shooting (and wishing).

  
10 Comments
Robert Vazquez
5/12/2014 09:22:35 am

1. Nice brass trigger shoe ( not talking crosman shop)
2. Metal barrel band for my pc77. Plastic sucks!
3. Affordable powder coating service. Send parts in parts come back with choice of color.
4. Metal frame plate would be nice.

Keep up the great work love reading the blog

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David Grimes link
5/12/2014 06:20:12 pm

Robert, good list.

Let me tell you that we are working on #1. It may need to be a true brass plated aluminum shoe, but it will be righteous when it comes out.
#2 is being attached in two ways. We have a really strong and rigid plastic that is not yuck that tightens the 13xx guns in that area and is more rigid and anti-sway than the metal ones we have purchased from others for comparison testing. Really! And we are in the planning stage for making them in both aluminum, brass and stainless. Those may be pricey, but no more so than the others out there now making them out of aluminum anodized and clear.

#3, Just give us a call. Been doing that for a long time.

#4 Work has begun. It will be CNC made of aluminum and will be wonderful to plate and powder coat. Grip frames planned for 2015 in a couple of different formats.

I appreciate your response and your patronage. I've seen your name on packages more than a few times. Let me know if anything is ever not just right and we will make it so.

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Ron Benda Jr
10/21/2014 06:10:34 am

I would like to see more parts made in stainless steel if possible. For example, a 2250 co2 extended cap with no slot in the center, stainless steel has less upkeep and maintaince.
A ss muzzle brake with sighted and unsighted options and I agree that it would be nice to have the metal plate and to get rid of the plastic parts.
I would also like to see some power adjusters with a few options like different screws or knobs , something that could make a airgun truelly on of a kind.
There are a lot of things that I would like to see and it will take time get the results but I will be patient and keep checking back to see what's new cause alchemy aurwerks is the only site that seems to want to build new and custom parts.

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David Grimes
10/21/2014 07:35:36 am

Hey, Ron!

It does take time, but we are wanting more for our guns, too.

I actually already have the SS 2240 extended CO2 cap without the slot, so I will see about the 2250 / 2400 done the same way. Keep watch in the "Stainless Room". Gimme a week.

Based on your little mention of the side plate, a lengthy conversation just occurred here and now this project is now being slid to the front burner. It will be aluminum, so it will be suitable polished, anodized, blasted, powder coated or plated. We need one to be able to do it all.

Thanks for stopping in!

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Ron Benda Jr
10/28/2014 12:12:32 pm

stainless steel 1/4 breech riser
stainless steel barrel band for guns with shruods
all stainless steel power adjuster with knurlerd knobs or screws
and a stainless steel shroud

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Wayne Costigan
4/23/2016 11:07:42 pm

Just got a black 1377and agree that use of plastics make it affordable w/o sacraficing ACCURACY! Which I enhanced by drilling out the rear peep to 5/32, and supergluing a small finish nail atop the front post after filing a slight groove into it and painting the polished head white. Fine holds much easier at long range while speed is enhanced via the larger aperture that requires less eye work; two vs three optical objects to juggle.

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Maryann Purple
6/16/2016 03:08:58 pm

Would like to first say that I love the blog! All the info is a great help in allot of ways, I had know idea about the (sweet spot) until I found this blog ect, and I am very glad I did because reading about the sweet spot gives me the much needed info I had been wondering all along! :)
As you know, I have ordered literally a ton of Alchemy parts for my custom 1322 pistol, out of the 24 custom and aftermarket parts...most of them were purchased from you either here on from your ebay page, although my pistol is now finished and complete..there are a few things I would like to see ect...

1, Number 1 would for sure be the grip plate! Just as everyone has already said, this stock part is plastic and if your into building your (dream) gun your not going to want plastic if you can help it ect..so a metal one with the exact specs as stock would be perfect..even better would be it powder coated to match my powder coated trigger frame and air tube.
2, A stainless steel Hollow (flow-through) bolt, there's only a very small number of people/businesses that make hollow probes and even fewer stainless steel ones! After all the testing I have done while building my 1322 pistol, In my opinion a hollow probe beats extended probes hands down! I get about 8-10fps extra going from a stock crosman probe to a alchemy extended probe,and another 8-10fps going from extended to hollow probe, mine is aluiminum and works but we need stainless! :)
Thats all for now lol....thanks again for all the parts service and help throughout my custom build, appreciate all your help! :)

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Raymond Spillane
6/6/2018 01:32:37 pm

Ive recently caught the 1377 build bug and im committed to using Alchemy parts only just to see how far i can take my gun. One step ive done is add a 2 inch section of picatinny rail to the pump hand so i can attach my foregrip/bipod combo with a laser sight. The grip hit the barrel while pumping but is a great addition.
Wish i could add a picture.
Thanks for the knowledge and great parts. Ill be ordering more soon!

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Gary j
8/10/2022 04:40:40 pm

Older article I know . but if I had a wish well three mabey they would be (1) more sustainable power in 13xx series ( allways changing)
(2) a decent pump handle that incoporates a bipod or monopod as part of its design.folds into tha pump handke , becomes the pump handle.
(3) a new and improved 13xx chassis .

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jesica
8/11/2022 02:09:26 am

i have been looking everywhere for a .25 caliber barrel to swap out on my crosman fury .177. the benjamin trail npxl model number bt725wnp-01-100A will swap in perfectly but the only place that i can find one is on a canadian site that crosman sent me to that only delivers to canada. talk about getting angry. i know you obviously love the 13xx and 22xx but the crosman fury isnt a bad rifle. considering. if i had a wish i would see if you could fabricate or find a replacement barrel for me for under $40. hey, you said wish. nothing fancy of course. just strong and accurate. thank you very much for your time and consideration, as i do know that you are very busy.

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    David Grimes

    A serious airgun enthusiast with a particular fondness of Crosman pistols, I learn something almost every day.  


    I am not an overall expert or guru, but I will share some things from time to time that maybe some of you will find interesting.  


    There are often many ways to accomplish an objective. I do not pretend to either know them all or imply that I am always right. 


    Therefore, I reserve the right to be wrong from time to time.  ;) 

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