So it's been a while since I got creative - and frankly I was really missing that - so I dug into my box of scraps, found some appropriate bits and pieces, and started planning a build.
I've been craving a stock class pump of some flavor for a while, having sold all of mine off last year, and since SuperStockers don't appear very often, I figured I'd build a version of one. Or as close as I can get it, with the limitations presented by my material list. π
I had a couple pieces of lower tube left from a Bluestreak chassis I bought a couple of years ago that got soldered together and joined by a PMI-1 valve core I found in a bag of parts. The upper is a piece of barrel tube from the same PMI-1, sleeved and soldered into a Cocker thread breech, then reinforced by soldering a chunk of brass plate between both tubes.
I need to fine-tune a few things and solder on the feed tube - we're going cram-n-jam, no feedgate for this badboy - but I ran out of MAPP gas so it's on hold for now. And I'll need to figure out plumbing - very likely a 12gram dummy to bottomline since I don't have threads in the lower tube for a Fastchanger - and make a pump arm.
But.... here it is so far.

I've been craving a stock class pump of some flavor for a while, having sold all of mine off last year, and since SuperStockers don't appear very often, I figured I'd build a version of one. Or as close as I can get it, with the limitations presented by my material list. π
I had a couple pieces of lower tube left from a Bluestreak chassis I bought a couple of years ago that got soldered together and joined by a PMI-1 valve core I found in a bag of parts. The upper is a piece of barrel tube from the same PMI-1, sleeved and soldered into a Cocker thread breech, then reinforced by soldering a chunk of brass plate between both tubes.
I need to fine-tune a few things and solder on the feed tube - we're going cram-n-jam, no feedgate for this badboy - but I ran out of MAPP gas so it's on hold for now. And I'll need to figure out plumbing - very likely a 12gram dummy to bottomline since I don't have threads in the lower tube for a Fastchanger - and make a pump arm.
But.... here it is so far.
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