Pellet Dieseling the Easiest & Quickest Method

In this video I cover the topic of Pellet Dieseling, and what I consider to be the easiest and fastest method of dieseling pellets, particularly when you want to diesel a large number of them, as often the process can be tedious with certain methods.

Many different methods are used to achieve the dieseling effect, including various different petroleum oils, including petroleum jelly/Vaseline, gun oil, WD-40 and actual diesel.

I personally still find that my vaseline/pellgunoil mix produces the best results in terms of power, however the ease and convenience of this WD40 method definitely has it's own merits, and works well too.

Anyways hope this was helpful to anyone, make sure to like if you did find it helpful, and to subscribe for more!

[ChevelleSS]

This post got my attention as back in the mid 60's my dad bought me a .177 caliber pellet gun. I was not aware of dieseling but as a pretty inventive youngster I would pour a drop of lighter fluid into the piston and discharge my rifle. This brought back a bunch of memories :)

[frankschuler]

I got my first air rifle from my Dad for my 8th birthday back in 1985. It was a Daisy Model 120 break-action spring-air .177 cal pellet rifle. At the time, I figured it would be a good idea to lube it on occasion using some 3-in-1 oil. I noticed, though, that it would blow a puff of smoke and make a slightly louder noise right after oiling it. I can still remember that smell, lol. I had no idea what was going on at the time, so, it's nice to finally get the rest of the story. I'm 46 now and this video prompted me to walk over to the closet to pull that old rifle out. It's still in great shape! I can't tell you the last time I actually fired it, but I'm starting to get the urge to take it out to the range.

[trevorjameson]

Tried this in my old Chinese B1 .22 cal break barrel. Works great! Normally this gun shoots around 420fps, and now with WD-40 in the tin of pellets, I checked across the chrono and it's shooting around 525fps which is great! Thank you for this tip!

[musicgroopie]

We used WD-40 in the mid seventies. I had a crosman 767 pump that shot about 500 fps. I sprayed my barrel and soaked the pellets. That little rifle could hunt jack rabbits. Didn't have a Chrono back then but you could here the difference in thump on hard targets . People say it will destroy your gun. I dieseled thousands of rounds in that cheap gun and it's in my closet today with the original seals.

[spotontheroad]

I used to use Plusgas dismantling lubricant behind my pellets when I was a kid. That worked very well.

[mikehugget]

Loving the humming bird feeder near your plinkers!

[jasonianfoo]

Guys what you need to know about dieseling is that there must be three elements needed to make a fire, which are, fuel, heat and oxygen, which is what generates compression. The oil is fuel, the compressed air consists of heat and oxygen, hence the compression. With just a drop of oil in the skirt of the pellet will do the trick. Dieseling generates about 300 fps ( depending on the velocity of the gun) more than the normal fps of the respective gun. A .22 airgun shooting at about 950- a 1000 fps, can go up to about 1300-1400 fps when dieseled, which makes it just as lethal as a .22LR rimfire

[luiggispeed]

I get dieseling by dropping 3-in-one general purpose oil straight into the piston chamber, it gives me about 3 extremely powerful shots, you can tell the pellets go supersonic on a .22

[Lex-hkfn]

Another video shows an Hatsan Carnivore with vaselin on the back of the pallet. Without dieseling it did around 530 fps as I remember, and after a few dieseled shots he maxed with 740 fps! But maybe he could have even better results with less vaseline for better fuel/air mixture.

[smokeless]

Another fun thing which doesn't damage the gun is to araldite a small pistol primer on to
the nose of a .22 pellet. Great against hard flat targets like a house brick. Nice flash at night too.

[davidlynch]

Oh yeah it cranked up speed, im 63 and got a daisy 880 pump for my birthday, just like the one I had when I was 9 years old, we didn't know about diesling back then, , I'll give it a try and come back with a progress report, , thank you very much

[Ymanz]

When you are in a place like me [West Africa] where the difference between a damaged gun, seals all busted etc, and a working airgun is NOT being able to pop into the shops for a repair, or a replacement - you keep away from all these gimmicks.
I was interested in dieseling to, but I have read many stories of how the oils, the vapours and the explosions wreck the internal seals and make airguns inoperable.
While it looks like fun, and could help me with range - I do not think I would want to try this.

[waynecampbell]

I've got a really big backyard but my fence is only about 4 ft so I can't go shooting in my backyard yet. I can't believe the things I've seen people do that are so dangerous, it's awesome to see you took that many precautions so nothing bad could happen!👍

[jameshanes]

Brake Fluid was better in my pellet gun. The effect was amplified by swabbing the barrel using a cleaning rod and cotton end.

[sliderdriver]

Blotting paper soaked in lighter fluid always did the trick for me. Used it on. 22 steel tips with my 1970's BSA meteor and the airsporter. (one of which was a 177).it would drive a pellet through steel oil can at 35 yards (lengh of garden) but couldn't say beyond that. I do recall a neighbour once knocking on the door one Sunday morning kicking off because they'd dug a pellet out of their back door! The door was about 70 yards away and through a hawthorn hedge 😂.

[uclajd]

Why don't you explain what "dieseling" at the top of the video is for those who have no idea? Teaching 101.

[jimmyz]

Vicks vapor rub works great also. My gun has lead seals Ben Franklin 317 .22 so no worries on blowing them out.

[lylefoster]

Since your break action Gamo Swarm, is what it is, try spraying "just a squirt" of quick start into the compression chamber

[DevilbyMoonlight]

40 years ago I tinkered around with old airguns like the BSA mercury's and meteors, webleys like the hawk and vulcan, and Weirauch HW35/77/80, and numerous others, best results were with a strong spring and also leather piston washer and a properly 'cross hatched' cylinder wall will leave the right amount on the wall in a consistent manner when you cock the weapon, dont forget most of the smoke you see is oil vapour blown up the barrel, I tinkered around a fair bit when I was a kid, when you get above 1150 fps you will hear a loud crack, but all the power in the world is no good without consistency, at really high velocities you will run in to accuracy problems with thin skirted slugs, as the increased power will distort the skirts, not a problem with slugs with thick skirts like the H&N Barracuda.

I used to 'tune' them for accuracy by the usually rebedding the action to the stock properly fitting a piston sleeve and guide tube if it didnt have one, fitting bearings inside the piston and on the guide tube so the spring could twist without friction, and then by polishing the contact surfaces to a mirror and working moly into the surfaces as a youngster as a pastime, and found out, if there is grease on the outside of the piston, it try's to work its way forward every shot, so you can think of it as fuel as when you cock the weapon a tiny amount of lubricant is left on the cylinder wall as you cock it, so a flexible piston seal with a feathered edge allows this to collapse on the cocking stroke but will expand as it goes forward pressing into the cylinder wall scraping it off as it slams forward and hits the air cushion and under adiabatic compression detonates before it bounces again and settles up against the cylinder head, this is why powerful spring airguns do more damage to scopes than a firearm because of this '2-way snap' recoil pattern,

Am not sure if you can get it anymore there was some magic go juice called Tikko Power lube, it was a kind of lithium based grease when mixed with something call 'Weapons Oil Medium' which i think you can still get from military surplus places, you know if its the right stuff as its a milky coloured substance and when mixed together and applied not too thick that it causes drag to the outside of the piston it was instant consistent power

[hanke]

Vaseline in the skirt of the pellets works much better because it doesn't run out of the pellets now with Red Flight Rounds you seat the Red Flight Round 1st then put a little Vaseline behind it and fire away. In the Beeman Duel Caliber Air Rifle it works great pushing 22cal Rounds down range between 1300 to 1400 FPS with 177 Cal Alloy Pellets around 2, 000 FPS. I'll do a video one of these days on Dieseling the Beeman Duel Caliber Air Rifle.
God Bless