Not trying to start any stuff with this but...

I think it's good that he retracted the statement, but how many people follow him close enough to read some of his stuff. Some may have no idea that he recalled that statement about pellgun oil and HPA? There literally could be quite a few people relaying that info to their air gun buddies that don't bother reading chat forum, blogs, etc. like this.

There can be no assumptions made that all those affected come to the internet, and saw the retraction in my opinion. That would be far from the real truth. Also, I know from a personal level there are far too many threads that I lose track of, and never go back to read the responses from. It only takes one person to not be aware that something changed to affect a few or better yet many for that fact.

One of the first things I learn about HPA was that: Oil or petroleum based products can flash under HPA pressures (3,000 p.s.i. +) and explode, so none of these products can be used to repair fill nipples that leak, air lines, etc.

I just went and found the retraction where Tom says he thought pellgun oil was a synthetic based product for year. What I found was amazing, in the fact that an expert in this hobby had no idea that he could of possible gotten someone hurt with the assumption that pellgun oil is a
non-flammable substance.


I took this quote from a blog Mr. Gaylord writes:

"First of all, I have always believed that Crosman Pellgunoil is a synthetic silicone oil. I had no reason to believe otherwise, and I never questioned why I believed it to be so. All the advice I have given about using Pellgunoil over the years has been based on that belief."

Let me say that I just recently started playing with CO2 guns, and before then while I'd seen advertisement for pellgun oil I could of cared less about using it, primarily because I shoot PCP/HPA rifles. But at the point I built a custom CO2-based pistol there was the realization that pellgun oil was needed. With that said I knew that pellgun oil wasn't a synthetic so I'm not sure how Mr. Gaylord made that assumption since he is not saying what made him think so in the first place. Unless or course he is saying that he on his own made that determination that pellgun oil was not combustible. Seems that it was not Crosman, or any rep from their faculty that told him based on reading his blog.

I agree that we are all entitled to mistakes, but when we cast ourselves as someone that has expert knowledge of a field I think it become clear that those people also have the obligation to make sure the info they put out is not something the will cause a failure in an HPA rifle or pistol.

Hopefully we can all get over taking sides, or picking repeatedly at the sore and correct the mistake as a group. My concern (as it seems to be with some others) however is how do you get the info to those that may never know there was a correction made about using pellgun oil in HPA applications?


It is what it is, because it is!!!