About 5 months ago I posed a question to see if anyone had any info on non-destructively removing the recoil pad from the hollow plastic buttstock of a Daisy Powerline 1000S for the purpose of filling it with foam to quiet it down a bit. At the time, there were no takers, so I decided to brave the unknown. Below is a link to an Acrobat .pdf file documenting the procedure that I ended up using:

http://tinyurl.com/22f25n

If the link doesn't work by clicking, you can copy and paste the link into your browser. The .pdf file is about 1.2 megabytes, so folks on dial-up may have to go get a cup of coffee while they wait.

Bryan

Thanks Bryan for taking on a problem that I was fearful to tackle. You must teach for a living. Do you have the full acrobat program to make the pdf file?

How does it sound now that you've damped the stock? I guess I'm wondering if the improvement is worth the trouble to which you went.

You know, if you guys keep working on these things(the 1000s) they are going to be a nice gun. They're already powerful and accurate--just rough.

Charlie

Glad you found it useful, Charlie. No, I'm not a teacher, just a lowly IT guy working for a major State Univ. in NC at a far off-campus facility. I don't think I have the patience to teach. I don't have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, but I do have a free .pdf printer utility called CutePDF which installs a virtual PDF printer that you can use to "print" (actually exports it as a .pdf file) any document that can be printed through Windows (in my case, a MS Publisher doc). Google 'CutePDF' and you should find their website to download it. What I wanted to eventually end up with was a web-page that I could link to, but HTML coding has passed me by and it's not one of my areas of responsibility, so I figured the .pdf was the next best thing.

The actual operation on the stock didn't take nearly as long as it might have seemed from the pictures, nor was it really difficult at all. Most of the time was taken up by scratching my head wondering if the next step was gonna screw something up, and also taking pictures. If you had the foam and the drills and file, the whole thing can be easily done in less than an hour.

As to the difference in sound, there's a noticeable reduction in the "hollow" sound when the gun fires, a nice improvement, IMHO. I've still got to finish (start, actually) my spring compressor so that I can take it apart and do some smoothing and lubing to it, which will hopefully ease the strain of cocking and reduce the spring twang. It'll definitely be another learning experience for me. If my hands aren't too greasy when I do it, I'll take more pics and maybe do a write-up (unless I screw it up royally, in which case you'll probably never hear from me again ;~)

I kinda wish that Daisy would put out the 1000S in a wooden-stocked .22 model (with an improved adjustable trigger). That would be alright.

Bryan

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Great write up and experimenting!

Would you mind if I added to my website. I think others would find it very helpfull. I would be sure to credit you would leave the document unaltered. You can look over the site here... http://webpages.charter.net/guru1/documents/index.html

Take care.

Russ S.

 

Sure, Russ, it would be an honor. I've gotten a lot out of reading the info on your site, and I'd be more than happy to give a little back.

If there's anything you think needs changing or re-arranging to make it clearer or easier to present, let me know and I can take care of that.

Happy Halloween!

Bryan

Thanks Bryan. I don't think anything needs to be changed at all. I will try to get it posted up this weekend.

Russ S

EDIT Actually the one change I can see that needs to be made is that your name isn't mentioned anywhere in the document. I would really prefer that you take credit for your hard work but that is your call. I plan on giving you credit by name when it is posted but let me know if you would like me to handle this differently.

I'm not too concerned if my name shows up on it, Russ (my laziness is starting to show ;~). If you want to credit me on the web page, that's fine. If someone else ends up downloading it and taking credit for doing it, well, it's not something I'd lose any sleep over, as long as it's freely available to anybody that's interested in the info.

Thanks again.

Bryan

and can be found in the documents section of my site. Let me know it I got your name right when you get the chance.

Thanks again.

Russ S.

Thanks Russ! Looks great, and I appreciate the opportunity to contribute.

Now, as my publisher, I guess I have to cut you in for 10% of all the royalties, right? LOL!

Bryan

LOL I'll settle for 5% since I am such a nice guy! Thanks for allowing me to post it. I am sure the Daisy Winchester community will appreciate your work.

Russ S.

Hello Russ,

You and the others have provided tons of info for the newbs out there. I recently purchased the 1000S from Walmart at the discontinued price. I may go back for another now that I have found this site.

Anyway on to my question, is the document still available written by Bryan K.? I have the latest version of Adobe, but the link doesn't seem to work.

Thanks,

Jonathan

Jonathan,
You can find all of the DW 1000 documents at the following site...
http://webpages.charter.net/guru1/documents/index.html

Thanks for the kind words, feel free to drop me a line if I can help out with your new gun. They can be sweet shooters.

Russ S.

Jonathan, Russ's site is the best way to get to the file because he's got so much more good info available. The link that was posted originally at the top of this post is a TinyURL shortcut link to a longer actual URL. Unfortunately, for some reason this forum doesn't translate a typed-in web address into an actual clickable link; you have to highlight, copy and paste it into your web browser manually. At least for the moment the original link still goes to the document (I just checked it out to make sure). Good luck with it.

Bryan

Russ/Bryan

Thanks for the head's up. I was able to open and print the document. I'll be sure to share the results should i decide to take on this endeavor.

Jonathan

Daisy JUST returned my powerline 1000s, which I purchased 3 years ago, to me after a complimentary refurb!!!!!!
thats right, at no cost to me!!!
Anthony Stratis was nice enough to replace the old stock with the new, crosshatched one, replace the sights and the fire control group.
My only real proble is that the new stock is VERY VERY loud and acts as an amplifier for the recoil noise.
This post of yours is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if insulating foam(the spray kind) would work just as well?

Also, the new stock DOES NOT have the monte carlo raised cheekrest. You never know how nice these little features are untill they are gone.

Daisy did send me back the original stock, but I'll give the new one a faair chance.

GREAT WORK!!!

What prompted the return of the gun after 3 years?

Was it still in warranty?

i was planing to call them tomorrow and see if they had any options for repair of mine. i like the way it shoots, but don't think i would spent very much for repairs will see. john