Spare parts, speartips, line slides, etc.

[popgun pete]

Check out the interesting selection of spear tips and line slides here, especially the aluminium line slide.

https://opensea.ru/podvodnoe_ruzhe.htm

 

[marco15499]

In my opinion alluminum is too soft for a slider material. There's titanium sliders in the market at an affordable price and they are very well designed.

 

[popgun pete]

In my opinion alluminum is too soft for a slider material. There's titanium sliders in the market at an affordable price and they are very well designed.

My "Taimen" speargun uses an aluminium slider as have many old spearguns from the past, remember aluminium is available in many different alloys and can be heat treated. These versions on the Russian web-site have hydraulic brakes, so can be used with stop diameters on the shaft that are a close fit in the rear bore of the slider. The other thing that interested me was the large range of speartips. Some are for specialist applications such as the "crown" tip which is designed to not stick into underwater logs if you miss, but will do in a thick scale fish such as a Carp.

Here is another interesting looking speartip, the number 6

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and here a cable fitting for speartips.

Adapter with cable for harpoons and tips of guns for spearfishing. Turns your harpoon with a tip into a harpoon with a split tip. The adapter has M6 female and male M6 threads.

 

[marco15499]

This is the slider I was talking about. I have it and works like a dream. It also has hydraulic brake.

 

[popgun pete]

Yes, I have one of those titanium sliders that I purchased after I received my Pelengas 70 cm gun which came equipped with a stainless steel slider, however stainless steel is heavier than titanium which is heavier than aluminium and for some applications aluminium will do the job. Don't forget that for years plastic sliders worked OK, however modern versions have reduced the dimensions to the point where their durability has fallen off.

 

[popgun pete]

Another source from the original "home" of spearfishing, France.
https://www.vieuxplongeur.com/fr/1579-accessoires-arbalete

There is even a pneumatic gun that I cannot recall seeing before, the Beuchat "Rocket".
https://www.vieuxplongeur.com/fr/365-fusils-pneumatiques
Note the pressure gauge and adapter prices!

https://www.vieuxplongeur.com/fr/fu...c-reducteur-et-fleche-tahitienne-beuchat.html

While looking at the Beuchat material I noticed this poster; something to read, but not necessarily believe! (Rene Cavalero beat him to it with his visually identical "Champion" Arbalete, the Beuchat gun shown is in fact the "copy" and not vice versa)...