Hammer alignment
I have a Talon SS with an 18″ barrel that seems to have some sort of slight alignment problem with the cocking assembly and the top hat. When I close the cocking assembly after cocking, it catches on the front of the top hat and needs to be slightly jostled to close completely (or lifted up). After it is closed, when I move the cocking handle to the left, it wants to come back to the center (right is better, but not as good as my other SS). The symptoms are the same with both of my tanks. This gun has tried 3 different barrels and they all produce the same results.
Any thoughts on what I might try to remedy. There is always that option of return the gun to home base, but it shoots fine.
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The hammer rides on the frame(unless you ordered a barrel riding hammer), and can’t be adjusted per sa for alignment.
The breech rides on an o ring on the breech section of the barrel, so should also be in line.
Maybe your mainspring is twisted/pinned slightly which transfers a little rotation on the breech? (i presume when you say it rotates even with bottle off that you mean when the hammer is tight against the breech?)
If the collar goes out of alignment when you tighten it you may need to shim the collar to get it to line up perfectly.
Thanks, Will give this a try!
Is there any alignment that can be done with the Hammer? That self centering of the cocking lever is there even with the bottle off.
Don’t need to bend it!! to reposition the collar you can remove grip, remove the trigger guard plate (careful with those springs when you take it off!) and you should be able to see the 1 or 2 grub screws holding the collar. Loosen them off, reposition the collar then tighten down.OR, just screw bottle in 2 thirds, then try moving the bottle to reposition the collar( I did just this and it worked a treat)
I think that might be the situation: I’m thinking if that is true, my fix is return to the factory (I’m not into bending into alignment…..)
If the bottle collar is a part of the bottle, I don’t think so; here’s my justification of that thought: I have 2 bottles and a CO2 adapter – all 3 fit fine on my other gun and all 3 have the same problem on this gun. What do you think?
You might need to realign the botttle collar. Take a look it probably is to one side and not dead center.
The collar that you screw the bottle into on the frame might be out of whack slightly?
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I’m looking at the 12th picture down (or close to that, didn’t want to take off my shoes to count!). It looks to like the grub screws have been removed.
If these are the right ones, it looks to me like either loosening both or tightening the back one slightly will work as the top hat is just a little high (OK right and left).