I will see if I can find the photos I took of the dismantled Titan so you can see what it is like inside. It was in film camera days before digital cameras were even thought of and there was no Internet. The guys at the dive shop I bought it from had it hanging on the wall at one stage and then dumped it with a lot of old guns and parts on a Dexion metal rack out the back of the store while they redecorated. No one knew what it was and one guy thought that it was full of water as it was much heavier than they thought it should be. The answer was those thick wall tanks and the huge chunk of brass in the rear end, but even I didn’t know that until I unscrewed the tail cone out when a wisp of oily smoke appeared, then I realised the power selector gate was reversed and I had only depressurised the inner barrel and prechamber, the tank was under full pressure! I quickly screwed the tall cone back before the “O” ring seal contact broke, a close call.
You will note I dymo taped the selector gate positions so anyone who used the gun knew what the selector positions were, full power being right forward in the gate and being the full air bleed position. Few wanted to use it preferring the Sten which was the same length and shot the same spear.
A quirky feature of the “Titan” selector gate is if the cursor, i.e. the control lever, is right back in the selector gate at position 1 and the gun has depressurized then you have no hope of budging the lever to move it forwards. This is because the strong coil springs on the control rods inside the gun need to be offset by gun pressure in order to make the selector gate usable. Without coil springs high gun pressure would try to blow the selector lever forwards and slam it into the front edge of the gate never to be moved. The only way to move the cursor is to pump the gun up, in fact if you cannot budge the cursor it means that your gun has lost pressure and you need to add more pressure to it. Some not knowing this fact have busted the cursor by pushing it forwards against the power of the springs. Over the years Mares beefed up the cursor to avoid it being broken, a forlorn hope.
You will note I dymo taped the selector gate positions so anyone who used the gun knew what the selector positions were, full power being right forward in the gate and being the full air bleed position. Few wanted to use it preferring the Sten which was the same length and shot the same spear.
A quirky feature of the “Titan” selector gate is if the cursor, i.e. the control lever, is right back in the selector gate at position 1 and the gun has depressurized then you have no hope of budging the lever to move it forwards. This is because the strong coil springs on the control rods inside the gun need to be offset by gun pressure in order to make the selector gate usable. Without coil springs high gun pressure would try to blow the selector lever forwards and slam it into the front edge of the gate never to be moved. The only way to move the cursor is to pump the gun up, in fact if you cannot budge the cursor it means that your gun has lost pressure and you need to add more pressure to it. Some not knowing this fact have busted the cursor by pushing it forwards against the power of the springs. Over the years Mares beefed up the cursor to avoid it being broken, a forlorn hope.
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