Ranger 45
Well I have a tracking number for the Ranger 45 that was assembled, test fired, chronyed, and shipped today.
28 inch barrel, standard stock and black crerakote finish, $1230 dollars including shipping.
To early to get the arrival date, it is not in the system yet.
Chrony numbers were:
Round ball. low setting 3000 PSI……1018 FPS
225………. low setting 3000 PSI……..877 FPS
405 shot 1 hi setting 4500 PSI………804 FPS
340 shot 2 hi setting 4500 PSI………843 FPS
These numbers will improve by 30 to 50 FPS as the rifle breaks in.
Regards,
Roachcreek
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When I paid, I will send 0,452 RNFP 260grain devastating to test if desired. There may be some other stuff ….. 0452 I’ll have to check.
Oh boy!!!! More testing makes for some good reading!!! 😀
Those Rangers are impressive. Can’t wait for the photos of your custom stock too.
Better get that compressor back up and running. 😉
Oh and start a fresh thread, this one’s as used up as a two bit hooker on a Sunday night. 😈 😆
GREAT NEWS ! my ranger gets here tomorrow ! 😆 😆
WHOOOPIE !!!! 😆 😆
HA ! HA ! 😆 😆
then i have to do some cutting on my stock for the trigger part , and trigger guard since i had to have my fancy Richards micro fit tiger-wood thumb-hole target stock ! 😈 HE ! HE ! HE !
i have a 1000 rounds ready to blast away , and all the cylinders filled with air .
i have some solar lights up at the back stop for some night shooting , HA ! HA ! my scopes have the battery lit up red mil dots for night action , just have to tell the neighbors the varmints were out last night !
and they were hard to hit ! 😉
I don’t care how much lubricant you have in a shop compressor, 70 hours straight is going to burn it up. Hell after just eight hours of on and off every ten minutes most of them are too hot to touch anyways.
I’ve seen the SBox fill a tank from 3500 to 4500 in an hour and a half. So over 30,000psi in 70 hours, what are you filling! But I see from your signature that you have more tanks than a dive shop… 😆
Not trying to bust your chops. But I certainly wouldn’t expect a SBox to run for 70 hours and live to tell the tale. Glad your working with the maker in a stress testing scenario to improve the product, speaks to his will to make the product as good as possible. Other wise i’d call you crazy to be doing that kind of use without the maker behind you (unless of course you like buying parts all the time). Someone has to do it and i’m sure the maker is too busy to do so. Kudos to you for being the guinea pig and giving the SBox a good workout. Lots of people just want to shoot and not rebuild all the time.
This whole thing was discussed before when someone went off on the manufacturer about this not being a professional shop compressor, I don;t think anyone said it was for mass fillings. Granted the scuba shop systems are four times the price and you need a whole room to use them. The SBox fills a need for people who are topping off and I am certainly glad someone is making one and is working to improve the overall product. I never expected the SBox to compete with full scale scuba filling stations, which sounds like what you need…
BTW, most regular motor oil is blended with a healthy does of synthetic, makes it cheaper to manufacturer when oil prices are all over the map.
RC… 😆
😯 😕 Were you trying to kill it? 😆
70 hours is a long time. If you took any shop compressor and ran it 70 hours straight it would be a melted blob of metal. Good luck getting the manufacturer to even answer the phone.
What took that long to fill?!?!
Dan The Shoebox Stress Tester. 😆
The shoe box charges very slow , so it is a long timed charging compressor compared to most conventional compressor’s , as long as you have good lubrication you can run a conventional compressor like crazy , i use synthetic oil in my regular shop- compressor and have used to to do automotive paint , and ran the hell out of it !
the shoebox also only gets so hot if lubed correctly and does not build up more and more heat with run time from what i have seen so far , it gets to a temp and stays there ,
The manufacture of the shoebox Tom likes the fact i am doing these run times on his new machine , and is helping me out with parts to test , to see if we can get it to do even longer run times .
the whole idea behind the shoebox compressor is to be able to charge up your own cylinders , and not have to go to a scuba shop to have it done .
i think as time goes along we will make this machine last a lot longer inbetween rebuilds of the cylinders orings and pistons .
Dan was doing that to save Washington state from the radiation coming over from Japan. 😯
He was creating a bubble of HPA to keep the radiation from settling on us and keep it going east where they would never notice it. 🙄
If Dan had been around during WW11 with his shoebox he could have saved that preacher and 5 or 6 boys in Oregon from the ballon bomb that Japan sent over. 💡
His old lady says he has been doing that in the sack for years, he calls them boiler makers. 😆
Regards,
Roachcreek
😯 😕 Were you trying to kill it? 😆
70 hours is a long time. If you took any shop compressor and ran it 70 hours straight it would be a melted blob of metal. Good luck getting the manufacturer to even answer the phone.
What took that long to fill?!?!
Dan The Shoebox Stress Tester. 😆
I really like my Shoebox, but I try not to run it as much as Dan does. I used to run it open to access the connections for the disconnect easier, then I read, that running it closed puts air to the motor, so I tired that, and sure enough it runs cooler.
I am on my second Shoebox, the first one seized up after I had resealed it maybe three or four times. Tom is wonderful about service after the fact.
Having said all that, I just sold a Bushnell 3200 so I can get the regulator to make my Booster portable. I believe that having to only charge a tank to 3000 PSI and to amplify or boost that pressure to 4500 and higher, is the way to go with these big bores.
The big burn on the Shoebox is that intial fill on these big scba tanks, if you can get past that they work great, for a Condor they work great, but for a big bore that needs filled every two shots to 4500 PSI, your working them hard and need to be ready to reseal them often.
Regards,
Roachcreek
I actually put my fan on the right side of the shoebox and pint it to the left. It actually cools the motor some too. I angle it so everything gets some air. I am with you on the extended runs. I would fill my scuba tank at the scuba shop if it was empty. This machine is made for topping off in my humble opinion (no expert) . I run an hour here an hour there.
between lubing and keeping unit cool, i really have to believe that that is a very important measure.
For me personally, now that i have one in my hands, i would not run this thing like some have done. NOT COMING DOWN ON ANYONE trust me. Its just now that i can see for myself how its made, i would not want to run it for super long periods of time or back to back. For one, even in one 2-4 hour session, that little DAYTON motor get super hot. Like slayer5, i rubbed some lithium grease on the rods before i started my fill and turned on my fan and the only thing that got warm was the shoebox motor (dayton). The rods and pistons all were very cool.
Do you run a seperate fan to keep it cool?
Do you shut down every hour and lube it?
Not questioning you just curious so I can limit problems on mine.
I have not run the shobox for more than maybe 5 hours at a time (wife would kill me anyhow lol)
I have not had any problems and I run a fan all the time.
My total hours is only about maybe 20?? no where near your experience with it trying to keep it running as I enjoy the hell out of it!
Guppy tank will be topped off regularly and that should be an hour at a time the most I would think.
T……….update ! just got off the phone with Tom he is going to send me some new parts to fix the shoebox up , i do have a lot of hours on this machine , i will be testing a few new things that may improve the machine , since i run it so much so the testing running goes on , i have ran this machine 70 hours straight on one shot, then some long 15 hour runs , over and over , so i guess my machine is sort of a test mule,
Great DAN, thanx for the BAD news man. i just got my SB and now you say this…………..ARRRRGGGGGHHHH! Just jokin. Hope you get it resolved man.
i might have to send the shoebox back ,to get fixed , i tried everything to get it to work again , new orings , check valve oring , and it just kept shutting off at 1700n psi , i will see what Tom has to say about it , you have to replace orings piston rods , check valves like crazy to keep up with it when using it for charging up a lot of large cylinder for our airguns , so far .
i have over 200 hours on my machine , so i have tested it out pretty good , there is just so many leaking problems , it’s hard to keep up with , just when you think you have it going good something else seems to leak/go wrong , i think my lower piston rod might be to worn at this point , there are no scratches in it , but it may have just worn down to far , as soon as i talk with Tom i will know , heck i am just a bit frustrated right now , i am sure we will get -r fixed .
DH
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Wow….a smambot doing a terrible job of saying what I said a few pages back. Kinda spooky.