MX12 service
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shootinguru
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:fie: ME! I will take your stock off and using a new paint brush clean any crap out of the action and lightly spray it with a good light gun oil and put the stock back on.
The price is a very reasonable £100.00 plus 20% vat! :hunter:
The price is a very reasonable £100.00 plus 20% vat! :hunter:
Will Hewland
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Out of interest, how old / how many carts through it from new?
Skinny Mike
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I need to get mine done !
Have heard that Greenfields in Salisbury are good , bit of a treck for me though , touch further for you !
Have heard that Greenfields in Salisbury are good , bit of a treck for me though , touch further for you !
Will Hewland
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Skinny Mike
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morning, 15/ 20 000 ish , 5 years old , spent a lot of time in the rain this winter
Will Hewland
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I guess the internal action won't have been affected by rain, especially if you dried it well and sprayed some cleaner around the breech etc. If you remove the stock does it all look clean inside? And does the top lever feel smooth? If so, I wouldn't bother. Mine now has 69,000 carts through it over almost 7 years and its perfect. I have replaced and fettled firing pins but that's all. I keep it clean and grease the joints freshly for each outing, but no work inside other than occasional clean out of firing pin bores.
Skinny Mike
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top levers been stiff from new on mine !
Will Hewland
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Stiff with no barrel attached? If so it needs removing and cleaning / greasing. Or just when gun is closed? Mine is like silk to open and i don't remember it ever being different, but as I say I grease the locking edges (just under the ejectors). Also the hinge pins.
mx8
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get some Froglube CPL in around the top lever and let it work it's own way down or add a little heat from a hair dryer to help it along and it will be sorted
Will Hewland
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When I had shot 10,000 through mine (after a year) I wondered about a service too. 6 years and another 59000 later, I'm still wondering.
Perazzis are high quality, precision engineerd shotguns, a long way away from the run of the mill average piece of cast alloy and gas piping we have all shot before we saved up our paper round money and bought a proper gun. So, if its working OK leave it alone. Don't let some hard nosed gunshop take your hard-earned money - do it yourself. Take the stock off, blow the crap out of the action with an airline or brush it out with a half inch paint brush, spray a very light coating of good quality gun oil in the action and replace the stock. Remove the ejectors - carefully, clean out the rubbish which will have accumulated, apply a light coating of good quality grease and replace. Over and done with in 15 minutes tops at virtually nil cost. Clean it properly after you use it, grease all the wearing surfaces too. It will last you a lifetime - or at least until you want to change it for an SC3 or even an SCO!
Skinny Mike
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only seems stiff when assembled ????
allways grease it well with the white Perazzi stuff ,
its allways been fairlly stiff to the point where Ive got used to it ,have tried spraying oil round the top lever but it doesnt make much difference, would be nice to get it sorted though
Will Hewland
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If its only when assembled, it's not the top lever itself, more the fit of everything. A gunsmith should be able to ease it (perhaps by polishing the hinge pins to ease but I'm no expert).
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Skinny where did you get it from?
Cosmicblue
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Nigel Teague (as in the chokes) sorted my 2nd MX12 (the action was a bit loose on opening the gun), did a lovely job. Nigel was recommended to me for Perazzi repairs, a true craftsman.
01454 - 260226
01454 - 260226
Skinny Mike
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The factory , via Essex Gun
The top levers not a big deal , been a bit stiff since new & it spent a lot of time in the rain this winter , so I thought it could probably do with a service ....
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Ooooooooh they don't like rain they don't :wink:
