Flushed with success at repairing my MP40 (i.e. changing the fuse) I'm now thinking about joining the arms race and upgrading my enfield to compete with the K98s.
I understand I need to replace the cylinder for a teflon type and change the spring, but thought it was a simple job and the cylinder would just slide out.
Have got this far - see below, but do I literally need to take the whole workings apart to get the cylinder out?
The metal bit at the back that the bolt handle attaches to is approx 12mm diameter, so does that make it an L96 type cylinder I need?
Any advice would be welcome.
Yup, you need to take the trigger block off to allow the cylinder to slide out.
If you're going to go for the "teflon cylinder" (which is LayLax PSS2 stuff) then the vast majority of other items are going to have to be PSS2 as well. You get certain issues if you try and mix LayLax and PDI stuff.
For a reliable, accurate, 500 FPS, you're going to need the following:
1: PSS2 Teflon coated upgraded Cylinder and cylinder head (recent PSS2 cylinders are incompatible with the original Maruzen cylinder head)
2: PSS2 Piston, Piston head and bearing spring guide.
3: PSS2 upgraded sear, transfer bar and cylinder stopper (at 500 FPS, the standard sear will wear down, and the stopper can snap)
4: PSS2 150 spring.
What hop-unit do you have in there. Standard APS2OR, APS2EX, or is there an after-market one fitted already?
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You *might* have a problem with some of these parts, as LayLax recently discontinued most of their APS2 stuff, as the VSR-10 now rules the roost for sniper rifles, so you could end up having to go PDI for all of it....
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I've got an unused PSS2 3 element piston with power accuracy cup if you're interested in it B&A.
I think it's a shame that Laylax have all but ditched the APS2, as it's a superb rifle. I think it's that a VSR10 (or a chinese clone of it) is so much cheaper to purchase initially and then to upgrade.
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APS2 *used* to be the best, but quite frankly, the VSR-10 has a far, far superior Hop-up system.
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Watch it... that trigger mech is not a standard APS2 one. Its one Warren has made from scratch. The whole thing is custom made including the sears... Do not try to fit the trigger components that Kermit suggests!
Teflon cylinder, spring and piston parts are all good though... do get those!
The sears may be strong enough anyway... and if they're not... well there's nowt you can do but get some more made by warren.
You may find a 150 spring is too much though... try a lower spec spring as well...
To take the cylinder out pull the spring guide stopper down out of the trigger mech. In mine its a square brass rod.
Thanks everyone - much appreciated.
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Yup, you need to take the trigger block off to allow the cylinder to slide out.
If you're going to go for the "teflon cylinder" (which is LayLax PSS2 stuff) then the vast majority of other items are going to have to be PSS2 as well. You get certain issues if you try and mix LayLax and PDI stuff.
For a reliable, accurate, 500 FPS, you're going to need the following:
1: PSS2 Teflon coated upgraded Cylinder and cylinder head (recent PSS2 cylinders are incompatible with the original Maruzen cylinder head)
2: PSS2 Piston, Piston head and bearing spring guide.
3: PSS2 upgraded sear, transfer bar and cylinder stopper (at 500 FPS, the standard sear will wear down, and the stopper can snap)
4: PSS2 150 spring.
What hop-unit do you have in there. Standard APS2OR, APS2EX, or is there an after-market one fitted already?
edit
You *might* have a problem with some of these parts, as LayLax recently discontinued most of their APS2 stuff, as the VSR-10 now rules the roost for sniper rifles, so you could end up having to go PDI for all of it....
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Have now got everything apart and all was going fine until Firesupport e-mailed me saying the teflon cylinders only come in 7mm or 9mm flavours.
Mine is about 12mm!
However, the spring itself is about 9 - 10mm diameter and the slot in the cylinder is 7mm.
Does anyone know what the 7 or 9mm is referring to, and if it is the bit at the back as shown above, does that mean you can't get any parts to fit?
Firesupport are saying I might need to get a part made but I'm not going that far.
A standard teflon cylinder fit mine without problem.
The 7mm and 9mm is usually talking about the spring size. There are two sizes.
When I got it originally it had a small (narrow) spring. I had to get a large size spring as the small size in a higher power didn't exist. (I think it was that way around)
What this meant was that I had to get a new spring guide and piston that would take the larger spring.
The spring guide I have will take either size spring as it has an extra bit which can be put on it to change its size.
I hope this helps?
What you looks to have there are a completely standard (narrow) spring/guide/cylinder. You'll need to replace all of those with the larger type.
Thanks Yith.
Yes the 7/9mm is referring to the spring diameter, the chap at FireSupport confirmed the same. He measured the 7mm type cylinder and the "bit at the back" is also about 7mm too.
So it looks like I need the 9mm type which (hopefully) has a 12mm "bit at the back". Unfortunately, FireSupport are out of the 9mm ones so I think I'll give this a try...
http://www.x-fire.org/type96/e.t96_cyli ... c_pal.html
It's palsonite rather than teflon and has a vacuum cylinder, whatever all that means, but costs 22,400 Yen so it must be good.
Yeah I'm sure the "bit at the back" will be a standard size... otherwise they'd need to sell different size cocking handles, which is something I've definitely not seen!
OMG... STOP!! I just noticed something on the link.
That is a link to a type 96 APS2... that is most definitely something you don't want.
Your parts must be for a standard APS2, not the type 96 variant.
Cheers Yith - will check with Warren again before ordering but I'm pretty sure he said he'd switched to Type 96 internals now precisely because "the bit at the back" is bigger and hence will solve the problem you had with the bolt handle snapping.
ah right... gadge's still broke!
Well no-one had the laylax stuff so I went for the PDI gear instead and got the palsonite cylinder set including everything except the trigger bits listed in Kermit's post above.
Have now installed it and it actually works. FPS is now 460 with an M150 spring (which is an increase of about 60-70fps).
BUT, I think I've cocked something up as the consistency is now worse and I can't seem to sort the hop out.
I think I've identified the problem - when cocked, the cylinder and nozzle don't go all the way into the hop unit. There's an approx 2mm gap. See pictures below.
Not cocked.
Cocked.
Is this because I haven't got the cylinder in the right place when I re-attached the trigger block?
Any advice welcome.
