Lightning Loader revisited

[teerex.otw]

A while back I acquired a very rough Daisy 105b with a damaged muzzle I thought I could use for parts, but there wasn’t much there. It sat in the shop for a good while until I decided to chop off the damaged part at the rear of the loading window and make a mare’s leg out of it. On most of these conversions you have to remove the front sight to load bb’s.
Wanting something different, I grafted the mag. tube from an even worse condition Ryder, made a bunch of parts and installed a spring plunger to cover the loading port between barrel and tube. Has anyone else done this mod. or something similar ?

 

[Ascot500]

It sounds interesting, can you post some pictures?

 

[teerex.otw]

I’m new here, I will once I figure out how.

 

[teerex.otw]

 

[Ascot500]

I like it - a lot

 

[teerex.otw]

oops… got a double image there somehow.
This was an experiment to see if I could make it work. Will do some things differently on the next one. I also have a 1938b with a damaged muzzle, cut at the rear of the loading port it would be about 1/2” longer than a 105b, and that’s workable.

 

[cobalt327]

That's an uber cool conversion! Looks better than factory-made.

 

[CapnMac]

I’m new here, I will once I figure out how.

Well, howdy and welcome on in.

We have an Introductions thread in General. and there's a pinned Primer to help give a leg up, too.

 

[teerex.otw]

@CapnMac
Thanks! I was unaware of that.
I’ll look for it (and maybe spare myself some hair-pulling next time).