AZ tuned BSA Super Ten
Sent my BSA Super Ten to Allen Zasadny for some work….I can
not Emphasize how quiet this thing is now..Screw on LDC with
end cap to protect threads when not using LDC….Trigger is match grade
1 stage, and the fill adapter mod is a have to have….Cocking bolt
is cool too but everything else over shadows the knob….
Thanks AZ…..
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First of I don’t have factual proof AZ’s mod is unsafe, however I have a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering and have been toucht quite a lot on these subjects! So with that knowledge my OPINION is that this mod is unsafe. Just because there have not been any accidents as of yet doesn’t make it a safe mod.
It’s not that I want to flame anybody but him saying drilling the tank makes it stronger is rightout wrong. Look at it like a piece of flat bar being pulled on all 4 ends. Drill it in the middle and it has less material to withstand stresses. Thus it is weekened. Every hole in a pressure vessel is a potential stresspoint whatever way you look at it. If you’d punctures a balloon and fitted a valve everyone would agree it’s weekened. You flame Walther for messing with someones livelyhood. But becouse it’s AZ’s livelyhood it’s my OPINION he should hydro every modded tank he does and furthermore he should test a few modded tanks to bursting!
I will probably be flamed for this but still I had to give my 2 cents on the subject!
More on the pictures in your post. Great looking gun!!!! I have always loved the S10 rifles!
Regards,
Marc
http://bsaog.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=4483.0
There is a long thread on the BSA forum about this subject, it doesn’t look like a good idea modding the tanks at all.
Allen doesn’t even have a computer…I am thinking a picture or video
is out of the question…I can’t imagine living without a computer..
Long drive – prefer a photo, lol
319-934-3440 He probably wouldn’t mind if someone wanted to stop
by…
he drills the bottles for the mod he has them pressurized to 3,000psi
to prevent shaving from entering the bottle…
I’d be interested in seeing that setup !
I went with the Edgun because I allready had a AZ rapid and when I get ready to settle down and stop buying guns he will be my last stop 😆
Yea, I have been going back and forth between deciding on the Edgun
and the Rapid…Maybe Rapid first to make sure my long range is
covered and then Edgun for the close quarter room clearing…lol…
It is a tough call either way…..
I have been kicking around the idea of getting him to build me a carbine,but the Edgun is hard to beat for now.
I thought it was broken untill I put it through the chrony 15.9 JSB’s @990fps 😯
He will call me on Tuesday with all of the details on the Rapid and get started on mine…..He said it was actually quieter than the
SuperTen….
That’s seems impossible but true…..
That was the same thing I said when I bought my first rapid from him.I took it out of the box and fired it 😯
I thought it was broken untill I put it through the chrony 15.9 JSB’s @990fps 😯
I agree abolutely….All you can hear now with that LDC is the action
of the rifle….Blows me away everytime I shoot it…
I think it looks real good.IMO the only drawback to the superten was it needed a quickfill.
The screw in LDC? Or fill adapter?
The LDC.
7.5″
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It’s not that I want to flame anybody but him saying drilling the tank makes it stronger is rightout wrong. Look at it like a piece of flat bar being pulled on all 4 ends. Drill it in the middle and it has less material to withstand stresses. Thus it is weekened. Every hole in a pressure vessel is a potential stresspoint whatever way you look at it. If you’d punctures a balloon and fitted a valve everyone would agree it’s weekened. You flame Walther for messing with someones livelyhood. But becouse it’s AZ’s livelyhood it’s my OPINION he should hydro every modded tank he does and furthermore he should test a few modded tanks to bursting!
I will probably be flamed for this but still I had to give my 2 cents on the subject!
More on the pictures in your post. Great looking gun!!!! I have always loved the S10 rifles!
Regards,
Marc
I agree and it doesn’t take an engineering degree to understand
that drilling a hole in a tank weakens it. That fact is not
being contested..As far as I know, no one yet has seen or discussed
the process AZ uses so, to say that it leaves the tank weaker than
before is an ignorant statement…It may very well do that but
unless someone has really seen or understands what he is doing there
is no way of knowing….I think that with the number of quick fill
mods that AZ has done and the amount of time that has gone by
without even 1 failure that the mod has proven itself to be safe enough
to be a non issue…Now if one wants to get really nit picky, the word
safe is relative so, yes the mod could be considered unsafe.
I just don’t think it is so much so that it deserves the comments made by Walter
and others….How safe are the perminent cylinder tube tanks on the other rifles?…..
How often do people have those hydrotested? Never
as far as I can tell…Is that safe…No. but you don’t see people
running for thier lives when someone shows up with one 10+ yrs old…….
I am just saying….
And as far as this guy RANCiDTOM What a pompus ass…..