That pop gun turned out pretty nice, it is a sunday afternoon, raining outside, so a cup of coffee, a bag of nuts and raisins and a Jayhawker video, just sit down, relax and enjoy, thank you.

Another quality restoration! Bringing back to life a piece of our history is what makes your channel special! If that old toy gun could talk, oh the imaginary battles it fought in! Makes me wonder if a brave WW2 soldier played with that exact gun in his youth? Thank you so much for sharing this! God bless!

Well done sir. The popping you are expecting might be from the sound the old pop guns with the corks popping out of the end of the barrel used to make. i had one where the corks had strings attached so i wouldn't lose them.

In my youth (1960s) I had a Daisy Model 21 which is very similar looking but shot BBs. It was incredibly difficult for a young kid to cock, pulling back 2 springs instead of just 1. In fact it bit me once requiring several stitches. When we moved I accidentally left it in the old barn. I was an eejit!

Haven't seen one of those in ages!

All Metal Products moved from Wyandotte to Piqua, Ohio around 1950. I know this because my dad worked for them in Piqua and we (family) moved there then. They used to have Christmas parties for employees and their families and allow the kids to wander around the plant. There were barrels of plastic dart guns and darts that we had a blast playing with. By the early fifties not all of All Metal Products products were made of metal, in fact, most were made of plastic.

Awesome job. Looks brand new. My older brother got one of these guns as a present, probably at Christmas, & we had fun with it. It did have the distinctive "pop" when fired. Naturally, given young lads inclinations, the cork was fired in inappropriate targets which led, of course, to some parental confrontation. I don't remember what the sling was made of but pretty sure it wasn't plastic. I don't think it was a webbing or leather either -- I'm not being very helpful. Anyhow, thanks for producing some memories. Haven't thought about the pop gun for many, many years. Until the next one ...Stay Cool!

I believe the way those rivets were set was by chucking a mandrel with a “ cupped end into a high speed motor . That mandrel was then pressed against the rivet shank. The friction of the spinning mandrel created enough heat to soften the shank and set the rivet. The mandrel cup “ controlled the “ crown “ of the set rivet.