Shooting & Country TV | Gary Chillingworth | Air Arms Tx200 Strip & Lube with O-rings & Breech seal 

You chaps asked for a strip down video, I hope you enjoy it and feel free to share.

I recommend using an o-ring pick for the o-rings!

Fantastic. 👏👏 I own a beautiful TX200HC and really appreciate this video. Thank you for posting. ❤️ And a vote for a bluing vid. 🙋🏻‍♂️ 🗳

Fantastic video! Appreciate the humor too 😏

Very detailed, like how you show every bit like you’re talking to total newbie shooters.

Great vid thanks, I have just bought a mk11 for my remote finca in Spain, now a real doddle to strip and rebuild, thanks again Garry

TX200s are a pleasure to work on. Step above anything I've had as far as ease.

New to the channel , sat down to watch this with a mug of Yorkshires best in hand . Lucky or what ? Few !

Absolutely fantastic video. My TX200 has lost 100fps after 35,000 rounds. I suspect the piston seal is bad but with your video and a AA rebuild kit, I will attempt a rebuild…Thanks a lot..

Thanks a lot for such a nice guide. I don't comment the things I see on RU-vid but this is worth an exception. I watched several videos on TX200, as I was interested in doing some modifications in my Pro Sport rifle and I have to admit that this was the only guide that was useful. Looks like one man that has a nice hobby is trying to help others sharing the same hobby. Thank you for that. What was also really nice (apart with the funny part with the tea), that you used this wood and plastic to prevent any scratches. The only thing I would do different would be to remove the scope. I have a Vortex scope and it was damaged once so I'm extra carefull with such things right now.

Great video again Gary

Useful, thanks for taking the time to put this together

I hope you all enjoy the next video, it's a fun one and I'm getting my full Spaghetti Weston on.

You could use what I use that being a piece of broom handle 12 inches then place a slot in the middle of one end around a 1 inch in depth so you can place your cleaning rag or paper into it hence you have a better depth of movement plus its much quicker to use plus it will reach the far end of the cylinder wall hope this is of real help : great video 👌👌👌👍

Hi thanks for putting this video together. I would definitely be interested in seeing you re-blue your Air Arms. I am just about to have a go at doing this on my dads old side lever AA.

One thing in the comments you've said the air cylinder doesn't move! It does the same as a 77 or 97. On the TX it has a delrin guide to run on so it could also be lubricated. Great video as usual. Best thing I ever did was teaching myself how to tune,mainly detune air rifles. You don't need fancy kits improving on what you have is much better. My tunes cost next to nothing but a bit of time and a few delrin washers I make from the delrin rod I had and a bit of moly job done!

thx a lot for this video , that huge help for me :)

Best strip down video I've seen by far. Would really like see a re bluing tutorial as this is something i need to do on my TX200 classic.

Fantastic Video Gary, the TX is a fantastic quality springer i adore mine. I look forward to your gun blueing video

Many thanks Gary, an excellent video which gave me the confidence to carry out a much needed service.

Very good repair video on the TX 200 Hc. Thanks. 😎👍🏻

Good video mate, i would not put molly grease on the o rings, i would put sylicon base grease, on, dont put that molly on with your fingers mate its listed as carsnajenic, brush it on, very informative good thing with the tx its so easy to work on, plastic stylus will remove that clip without scratching the metal, thanks for posting

Great video. Very informative. I just bought a TX200 so this was really interesting to watch. Thank you.

Thanks Gary

Great vid. I just finished lubing the spring and piston on my MK3 and about the only thing I did differently was to lube the piston seal with Super Lube silicone grease. Cheers

Good stuff Captain ❤❤

Brilliant video, never watched a video like this before but I'll now appreciate what goes on under the bonnet of a rifle. I'm coming back to shooting after a 15-year break and looking around for a new air rifle, that's how I stumbled onto this video. I'm tending to favour the Weirhauch 95, bit expensive but my local and reliable gunshop has a nice second one on in stock. Owned the 97K but it was a bit heavy, had the Theoban Sorocco but could not get on with it and the old BSA Spitfire, probably my favorite rifle. The BSA Super 10 was OK in a clinical way but got fed up with all the faff of charging it up. Moved onto clay pigeon but still like air rifles. By coincidence, I was drinking a mug of Taylor's Yorkshire Tea at the time. Just finished the Cornish tea from down the road, they grow the stuff there, but I find it a bit delicate and I like a workman brew so I can taste the tea. So much poncy stuff about now. Be interesting to get along to Harrogate and visit Yorkshire's famous tea-growing fields, a trip for spring time, if winter ever comes. Cheers

Nice video. I have a Pro Sport but wish it was so easy to disassemble my HW97.

Good thing with the TXs so easy to strip down, thing is Gary if you do get it re blued they won't get the same Finnish as AAs get.

Thank you very much for this Sir. Brilliant video and very well explained.

Great video Gary, thank you, I do like a drop of Earl Grey being a PCP shooter, however I do have a couple of springers which need some tlc so looking forward to the bluing vid

Good man .. Yorkshire tea .. I like it 👍🏻

Good video Sir but you have to change tea with cofee it works better

Would Sainsbury's breakfast tea do? Great video thanks

Gary thank you so much, a pleasure to watch and very intuitive. A video on bluing would be fantastic too. Whilst asking, any similar strip downs on the Air Arms Pro Sport (or is that similar) or Weihrauch HW97K would too be appreciated, but fully understand if not possible. Oh and an garden bamboo stick wrapped in kitchen paper is what I used. On your strip down, I installed on my TX200HC the basic TBT drop in kit “This Tuning Kit comprises of a delrin spring guide with a long 2 part top hat, slip washer and 2 preload washers.”. I also highly polished both ends of the springs to a near glass look finish. Is this something you optionally recommend to be done or is it better to change the piston and compression tube to a Tony Leach 22mm one? Also if changing to a Tony Leach 22mm piston and compression tube, does the spring, spring guide top hat and washers need changing? Finally and thank you for mentioning the chronograph. Certainly after a clean or change of any mechanical bits it’s worth checking the power output as ultimately it’s one’s responsibility to keep within legal limits. So on that note could you do a session on the importance of using a chronograph. I use an FX air guns one and it’s fairly simplistic. Thanks again, always a pleasure. 👍

Love your sense of humor! No Earl Gray for me! I dislike bergamot!

Gary you almost ruined my tea with that Chippenham lubing comment 😂

Looking forward to the blueing vid gary ! Had my MK2 since 1994 and it's looking a bit tatty, though no rust. Are you going to blue it yourself or visit a workshop ?

Would like to see full strip down for bluing please👍

Thin guitar picks or the corner of a credit/gift card are better to push off circlips as they are less likely to mark the action.

Thanks Chilly. How often do you strip. Coming from the dark side to springers 😊

Thought you were going to say " this is a Hawke, so it doesn't really matter"

Hi Gary, my compliments on the video. Its brilliant. One question: How often does the TX need a re-lube? Is it after a tin of pellets? or after a rainy day on the range? You said every few 100 shots with the Krytox/Finish Line. But how often with the Moly?

Did you ever do the blueing video

Do you lubricate the main tube for the compression cylinder to move more easily? Cheers.

Hi Gary, What type of Krytox are u using for your 22mm Tony Leach Conversion? At the moment i am using a homebrew mixture of a bit of Moly grease and thin silicone oil. This works quite OK for me (and some other local HFT adepts). I now relube once per 1000-1500 pellets. Regards, Robert

Has to be Tetley 😂

Great video Gary, I haven't attempted stripping down my TX200, but im a bit more confident now in trying to do it 🤘👍👌 thanks for showing us the way its done.. 👌👍🤘

Hi Gary. Greetings from Canada. Just want to ask how many rounds, often do you change the spring, O rings, seal etc.? Mine is the standard TX200 Mk3. Thanks and regards.

hello brilliant video thanks, ive got a brand new tx200 hc mk3 and the inside of the piston has alot of grease init from factory how should i clean it out

Use a dental pick to remove the old o-rings..

Why have you got a fish tank temperature gauge stuck to the side of the action Gary please ?

watch out for the window Gary

Hi there. I have a paul short tune on my tx200hc. Will stripping it down affect the tune in any way and is this a service?

Hi, what do you think about Pro Sport? Is it as easy to service and repair as TX? Is it as reliable as TX?

You forgot the chocolate Hobnobs!

I'm about to buy the TX200 MK3, but I'm not sure if I shouldn't take the HC version. I am a hobby shooter and am not bound by the maximum joules as in the UK. Which one would you prefer and why?

Thanks for the mental image 😂I have a tx 200 hunter carbine how often do you recommend I get it serviced I got it last 😊year it's a buitiful rifle and I would like to keep it in tip top condition

16 joules

Question: I just field stripped my Tx200 after about 2000 rounds through it… I noticed when I did this that there was a LOT of gray grease from the factory on the spring and all the internals.. is this normal? Watching your video shows VERY minimal grease on the components. Also, how often should I field strip and clean this rifle… This was a brand new unit from PyramydAir about a month ago and it started to feel gritty… it’s smooth as butter after cleaning a bit, but I left a lot of the original grease on the components

Hi Garry what are the advantages of the Tony leach 22mm conversion kit. Iv seriously considering getting one cheers Warren.

ha ha ha i may never drink earl grey again!!

Hi sir,This airgun you can sent to india😯

Great video Gary what you need for o ring removal is a snap on 45degre miniature removal tool sg3ash45cr £12 00 nice shooting on the other vid .

Great video Gary. Very informative. I used this to service my TX200.