Air Arms Owners Club

Following on from the magazine loading topic I see that there is a modification to the indexing post. I have not seen this available from the usual sources i.e. Ebay, Chambers or John Kibbs and our own AAOC.


i have not had one fail but I can see there is the potential for the little lever spring to break. That little lever is attached to the post by a small screw yet if it fails you have to buy the whole post. Surely there is a demand for just the lever spring to be available. I read on another forum that a jeweller had made their own spring as they had access to the suitable alloy.

Is this an AA design or a DIY/3rd-party modification?
It looks like a solid brass lever with a spring wire behind.
The old-style spring pawl is the weakest link and therefore the first thing to get damaged if forced. Beefing this up might create problems elsewhere in the cocking mechanism - some other component getting strained.

The report on Facebook is that this is the post fitted to new rifles coming out of the factory

Some one else called AA and the part (upgrade kit) is available directly from them for £21.45 inc vat and postage

If someone was just making the pawl {leaf spring ) old or new style available, there's money to be made. I definately won't be paying for that upgrade when it is just the pawl to change

tonyc wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:26 pm

Is this an AA design or a DIY/3rd-party modification?
It looks like a solid brass lever with a spring wire behind.
The old-style spring pawl is the weakest link and therefore the first thing to get damaged if forced. Beefing this up might create problems elsewhere in the cocking mechanism - some other component getting strained.

Quick email to Sheila, and yes it's an uprated component fitted to all new S410/510 and Galahad

Don’t you think they should send them out free on request to registered original owners? Less than £21 anyway.

TenMetrePeter wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 21, 2018 6:50 pm

Don’t you think they should send them out free on request to registered original owners? Less than £21 anyway.

I like the way your thinking Peter