57 year old Sheridan Blue Streak - who can rebuild it?

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57 years ago today - Christmas Eve 1965 - I got my dream gun, a 5mm/20 caliber Sheridan Blue Streak.
I haven't shot it in years.
I did put a few pumps in it a few years ago and it held air just fine.

I remember there used to be a place that would rebuild them - or if you prefer, you could give them a "steroid treatment' and hot rod them - 10 pumps/1000 fps if I recall correctly.

I lost track of who that was.

Anyone have any idea? Is a rebuild something I can do myself? I'm not really great with that type of thing, but, I'm not a total clutz either.
 
I bought parts from Mac1 a couple of times in past year or two. He is the guy you are thinking of and highly recommended. If you have any mechanical skills at all they aren't that hard to work on. There it a wealth of information available on the air gun forums.
Gateway to Airguns and/or Airgun Nation. Crosman may have some parts still available or at least a parts diagram.
 
If you get the rebuild kit you need to be careful during the installation process. You will be threading the steel valve into the brass gun down at the end of a hole, using a tool while compressing a decently strong spring. You need to maintain pressure against the spring until the valve is threaded in far enough that the brass threads can hold it but without cross-threading the steel part into the brass threads. It is easy to ruin the brass threads (and therefore the gun) if you screw things up.

Also, be sure you get the right rebuild kit. As I recall, there are at least two variants.
 
JohnKSa said:
If you get the rebuild kit you need to be careful during the installation process. You will be threading the steel valve into the brass gun down at the end of a hole, using a tool while compressing a decently strong spring. You need to maintain pressure against the spring until the valve is threaded in far enough that the brass threads can hold it but without cross-threading the steel part into the brass threads. It is easy to ruin the brass threads (and therefore the gun) if you screw things up.

Also, be sure you get the right rebuild kit. As I recall, there are at least two variants.
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John - thank you for that tip.
I believe you are correct about two different kits.
Sometime in the early 1990s things changed and the older and newer guns aren't the same.
 
I always wanted a Blue Streak when I was a kid, but had to make do with a Crosman pump up .22. No knock against the Crosman…I made some pretty incredible long distance shots with. Even after years of shooting high power rifles, I still consider some of those air rifle shots as some of my best shooting, lol.
Anyway, I got interested in air rifles a couple years ago, and bought a couple. Then, I started looking for a Blue Streak. Found one on gunbroker in good, shooting shape. Put a Williams aperture sight on it, and I’m very happy. I ordered up a bunch of different .20 pellets from pyramid air, so I’m stocked for life for everything from plinking to varmint elimination.
 
I rescued this one from a junk shop and paid $35 for it as it was in sad shape and non-working. Had to rebuild and refinish just about everything inside and out. Picture of before and after. I think it had been stored in a barn as something had chewed on the butstock. IMG_E0307.JPG IMG_2560.JPG
 
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I still have my Benjamin 22 from about 1957, rebuilt in the 80s. Bought a vintage Crissman 22 a few years back.
My favorite of about ten air guns is still my Blue Streak. The magnum of pumps.
 
Baker airguns in Mt. Victory Ohio can rebuild it for you. He also sells seal kits with a warranty that if you mess it up send it in and he will deduct the cost of the seal kit from the rebuild. The only difference in sheridan guns was a change in the pump head and baker includes one of each in the kit.

https://www.bakerairguns.com/
 
Those old rocker safety Sheridans are incredible. Personally I feel they handle better and are more aesthetically pleasing than later models. I do find the later models that are akin to the 392/397 to be easier to work on though.

Have heard nothing but great things about Tim McMurray at Mac 1.
 
I sent my 1965 Blue Streak to Henry Ford in Myrtle Beach, S.C. for a rebuild. Very reasonable and fast. I had it back in a week, I'm on Cloud 9 to get it going again. Just needed new seals, in great shape otherwise.
 
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